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A different appetite for sovereignty? Independence movements in subnational island jurisdictions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Local autonomy in a subnational jurisdiction is more likely to be gained, secured or enhanced where there are palpable movements or political parties agitating for independence in these smaller territories.
Anckar D.   +27 more
core   +2 more sources

Why Decolonising Area Studies is Not Enough: A Case Study of the Complex Legacies of Colonial Knowledge-Making in the Indo-Myanmar Borderlands

open access: yesNew Area Studies, 2020
Decolonisation has become an important agenda both within academic institutions as well as within wider society in recent years. Yet the term is infrequently sufficiently critiqued or deconstructed to identify precisely what ‘the colonial’ refers to in ...
Mandy Sadan
doaj   +1 more source

Curriculum Transformation at a Private Higher Educational Institution: An Exploratory Study on Decolonisation

open access: yesSOTL in the South, 2022
Decolonisation of higher education is an important subject which has gained much support in public universities in South Africa. While curricular and other changes are currently being implemented in public universities to align with decolonisation goals,
Natasha Madhav, Philip Baron
doaj  

Markers and Tools to Facilitate Decolonisation of Theological Education in Africa

open access: yesReligions
This article discusses the decolonisation of (theological) education in Africa, with special emphasis on South Africa. Colonialism is a complex power system that subjugated space, human beings and the minds of the colonised.
Khamadi Joseph Pali
doaj   +1 more source

Decolonising the Curriculum [PDF]

open access: yesPolitical Studies Review, 2019
Social science courses are increasingly coming under fire for the over-representation of white male authors and theorists. Campaigns such as ‘Why Is My Curriculum White?’ call into question the ‘Dead White Men’ approach to teaching political theory, where few female and theorists of colour are included on reading lists.
Begum, Neema, Saini, Rima
openaire   +1 more source

Scottish exceptionalism? Normative codes of Scottish nationalism in the British and EU crises [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Scotland has thus far proved immune to the appeal of right-wing populism present in many European neoliberal democracies. This paper argues that changing tension balances in the crises facing the UK as a union state cannot be reduced to an understanding ...
Law, Alex
core   +2 more sources

The Empire Writes Back (to Michael Ignatieff) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article critiques the re-legitimisation of empire evident in recent writing by Michael Ignatieff. It begins by locating his work within the larger debate on empire emerging today.
Rao, Rahul
core   +1 more source

Tjibaou's Kanak: Ethnic Identity as New Caledonia Prepares its Future [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
On 11 May 2014, New Caledonia elected its fourth, and final, local Congress under the historic 1998 Noumea Accord. There was no Australian media coverage of that election, nor of a violent protest at the end of May just out of Noumea, when Kanak ...
Fisher, Denise
core   +2 more sources

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonisation of curriculum: the case of language education policy in Nepal

open access: yesLondon Review of Education, 2022
While decolonisation is usually discussed in relation to countries that were formally colonised, countries that have not been formally colonised have also faced challenges related to colonialism.
doaj   +2 more sources

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