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Examining discourses of whiteness and the potential for reconciliation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The aim of this paper is to explore how examining discourses of whiteness can contribute to an anti-racism that does not simply reduce racism to problems located with the ‘other’ or focus on the benefits of anti-racism for the dominant group.
Ahmed   +67 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropological Knowledge Production in Oceania

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2023
In Oceania, as elsewhere, power relations in knowledge production have been highly debated for many decades. Oceanian anthropologists have developed challenging proposals to decolonise anthropology and academia in Oceania at large.
Juliane Neuhaus
doaj   +1 more source

Learning design in diverse institutional and cultural contexts: suggestions from a participatory workshop with higher education professionals in Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Learning design approaches, such as those adopted by the Open University, provide a set of tools and resources for purposefully-designing modules with a focus on student experiences.
Cin, Firdevs Melis   +6 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting the apron strings: the South African experience of decolonisation

open access: yesThe Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2013
Decolonisation is a recurring constitutional and political theme in the process of change and reform in South Africa’s history during the 20th century.
G E Devenish
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial: Decolonising the University [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Therefore, in its variety, the contributions in this special issue share theorisations, auto-ethnographic reflections, and pedagogical experiments of decolonisation, politics of knowledge, and activism informed by Feminist, Gender, and Queer studies but ...
de Jong, Sara   +3 more
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Decolonising Gothic

open access: yesGothic Studies, 2022
This introduction to the special issue – ‘Decolonising Gothic’ – provides an overview of major existing approaches to gothic in the international context – namely postcolonial- and globalgothic – and highlights developments in contemporary Gothic production that demand a critical shift beyond these frameworks.
openaire   +2 more sources

Class, race, gender and the production of knowledge: considerations on the decolonisation of knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
How do class, race and gender impact on the production of knowledge? Is it enough to include those who have been excluded from advanced knowledge? Or has knowledge itself been tainted by the exclusions of class, race, gender and colonial conquest? How to
Sheehan, Helena
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