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Social Struggles as Epistemic Struggles [PDF]

, 2013
__Abstract__ This contribution offers a view on social struggles as epistemic struggles to critically engage with the Activism 2010+ debate.
Icaza Garza, R.A. (Rosalba), Vázquez, R. (Rolando)   +1 more
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Colonial rule and economic freedom

Public Choice
Abstract This paper studies the legacy of European colonial rule for economic freedom in former colonies. I find that current levels of economic freedom in former colonies are directly related to the level of economic freedom of their colonizers. This association can be seen as early as the time of independence.
openaire   +1 more source

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Descolonizando el “compromiso caribe”: hacia la formulación e identificación de perspectivas otras sobre el Caribe Colombiano

Jangwa Pana, 2012
El presente texto hace una lectura del documento Compromiso Caribe y explora el contexto en el cual ha sido planteado. Se formula una crítica de la forma en que este discurso ha dificultado la emergencia de otros planteamientos y reivindicaciones de ...
Jorge Sánchez Maldonado
doaj   +1 more source

Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
wiley   +1 more source

Discusiones interdisciplinarias sobre persistencia colonial, descolonización, experiencia y pasajes socioantropológicos y políticos latinoamericanos

Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
A central debate in contemporary Latin American social sciences revolves around the enduring presence of colonial patterns, practices, and forms of domination in research methodologies and the subjective framing of societal issues.
Odín Ávila Rojas, Fernando Matamoros Ponce, Manuel Alfonso Melgarejo Pérez   +2 more
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The Question of Responsibility: (De-)Peripheralising Rural Spaces in Post-Socialist Estonia [PDF]

, 2017
Recent studies on socio-spatial polarization and post-socialist spaces increasingly propose the use of postcolonial theory. Following this proposal, the paper attempts to make the decolonial approach fruitful for studying the crucial role that discourses
Plüschke-Altof, Bianka
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International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonial Embodiments: Materiality, Disability, and Black Being in Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso

Humanities
Grounded in, and in dialogue with, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso of 2018, this paper interrogates a particular time and place of coloniality and racial capital’s reproduction of Black fungibility in late twentieth-century ...
Daniel F. Silva
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Law in other contexts: stand bravely brothers! a report from the law wars [PDF]

, 2008
This essay argues against the two pillars of current research on law and globalisation, from the perspective of legal theory and political philosophy: first, the distinction between ‘well-ordered’ and ‘not so well-ordered’ societies; second, the ...
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