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“Even the Culture Day is in English”: Teachers' Critical EMI Awareness in Hong Kong
Abstract With the massive expansion of English medium instruction (EMI) in universities, EMI is now seeking a standing in schools of non‐Anglophone countries. While the history of K–12 EMI in postcolonial settings can bear important lessons for other contexts, school‐level EMI research focuses on instructional challenges, and critical insights about ...
Seyyed‐Abdolhamid Mirhosseini
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Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955
Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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STATE‐LED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China
Abstract As urbanization takes on forms and spaces beyond the typical city, urban theorists have questioned how the field can comprehend the rural. Drawing on recent theories in rural geography, I propose the concept of ‘state‐led ruralization’, which I define as state agencies’ deliberate effort to reshape rural social space by regulating the ...
Ettore Santi
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Racialised capitalism, decoloniality and the university: an exploration of the colour line and colonial unreason in higher education. [PDF]
Tegama N.
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Progress and Poverty: Walter Rodney's Legacy
ABSTRACT The conventional view of human progress states that the more humanity makes progress, the less poverty is entrenched. But, global development is currently characterized by a persistent combination of economic progress and growing relative poverty. This endemic inequality has puzzled economists for years.
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom
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Ecumen(ical) texts: Caribbean nation-states and the global ecumene
[First paragraph] The Haunting Past: Politics, Economics and Race in Caribbean Life. ALVIN O. THOMPSON. Kingston: Ian Randle, 1997. xvi + 283 pp.
Aisha Khan
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley +10 more
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The Neocolonial Tightening of CITES: How Northern Narratives Marginalize Southern Conservation
ABSTRACT CITES has demonstrated a persistent trend of regulatory tightening over five decades, raising critical questions about both equity and effectiveness in global conservation governance. This study examines how structural power imbalances and dominant Northern narratives within the Convention have systematically marginalized pluralistic ...
Youmin Lian, Md. Ziaul Islam
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Abstract Research on democratic backsliding and on EU counter‐actions is growing rapidly, but we have only begun to understand how EU actions are taken up in domestic political debates in backsliding member states. Our research builds on the assumption that the framing of these debates contributes to the (de‐)legitimation of EU actions and thus has ...
Michael Blauberger, Arndt Wonka
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