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Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination

, 2012
Amidst ongoing, contemporary colonialism, this article explores Indigenous pathways to decolonization and resurgence with an emphasis on identifying everyday practices of renewal and responsibility within native communities today.
Corntassel, Jeff
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
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Decolonizing Decolonization

Comparative Studies in Society and History
AbstractAppeals to “decolonize” now range widely, from decolonizing the university to decolonizing Russia. This article poses the question of what work the concept of decolonization can and cannot do. It underscores how much can be learned about how decolonization came about if one explores the different goals that activists sought in their time.
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DECOLONIZATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE CASE OF AFRICA [PDF]

This paper examines growth rates of real GDP per capita during decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa. For each period considered, I divide the sample between those countries that gained independence during the period and those that either remained ...
Kevin Sylwester
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonizing global AI governance: assessment of the state of decolonized AI governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Royal Society Open Science
Global artificial intelligence (AI) governance must prioritize equity, embrace a decolonial mindset, and provide the Global South countries the authority to spearhead solution creation.
Gelan Ayana, Kokeb Dese, Hundessa Daba Nemomssa, Bontu Habtamu, Bruce Mellado, Kingsley Badu, Edmund Yamba, Sylvain Landry Faye, Moise Ondua, Dickson Nsagha, Denis Nkweteyim, Jude Dzevela Kong   +11 more
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The UN Committee of 24’s dogmatic philosophy of recognition: toward a Sui Generis approach to decolonization. [PDF]

, 2019
The time is ripe for the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization (‘the Committee of 24’) to accept sui generis categories that enable it to achieve its aim of ‘finishing the job’ of decolonization.
Yusuf, Hakeem O.
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Framing National Education in Hong Kong: A frame analysis of power dynamics in stakeholders' competing narratives

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
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General skin and nasal decolonization with octenisan® set before and after elective orthopedic surgery in selected patients at elevated risk for revision surgery and surgical site infections—a single-center, unblinded, superiority, randomized controlled trial (BALGDEC trial)

Trials
Background The preoperative body surface and nasal decolonization may reduce the risk of surgical site infections (SSI) but yields conflicting results in the current orthopedic literature.
Ines Unterfrauner, Nadja Bragatto-Hess, Thorsten Studhalter, Mazda Farshad, Ilker Uçkay   +4 more
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Towards the \u27tangible unknown\u27: Decolonization and the Indigenous future

, 2012
On the occasion of the inaugural issue of Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, we examine the many contradictions, contestations and possible pathways to decolonization.
Sium, Aman, Desai, Chandni, Ritskes, Eric   +2 more
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