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Stunning the Nation: Representation of Zimbabwean Urban Youth Identity in some Songs by Stunner [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this article, presented at the Hiphop Conference in Harare on February 27th, 2013, the author examines the impact local rap music has on identity construction of urban youth in Zimbabwe by analyzing songs of Stunner, a famous rap and Urban Grooves ...
Mateveke, Pauline
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O passado revolucionário: descolonizando o direito e os direitos humanos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Combining a radical revision of the historical formation of occidental law with perspectives derived from decolonial thought, this paper advances a deconstruction of occidental law. That deconstruction is then brought to bear on human rights. Although
Fitzpatrick, Peter
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

The Dramaturgy of Power and Politics in Post-colonial Kenya

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2001
The main question pursued in this paper is how power is performed and manifested in some of the dramatic texts by post-colonial African writers, especially in the infamously dictatorial contexts such as Kenya.
G. Odera Outa
doaj   +1 more source

Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
wiley   +1 more source

La persistencia de los márgenes. Reflexiones epistemológicas en torno a la obra de Walter Mignolo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
En este texto se analizan varias cuestiones suscitadas en torno a la obra de Walter Mignolo, principalmente el análisis de las condiciones que debe cumplir una teoría crítica decolonial.
Álvarez Solís, Ángel Octavio
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The collision of feminisms, sexuality, and trafficking in persons in the Caribbean—A place for Kempadoo

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
wiley   +1 more source

Apartheid subjects and post-colonialism: native administrators in Port Elizabeth, 1945-1970 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: Democracy, Popular Precedents, Practice and Culture, 13-15 July ...
Robinson, Jennifer
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract This short essay contends that sociology should devote attention to causal explanation in order to expose lies. It argues that lies about causes are common in society and social science is in a unique privileged position to offer social knowledge that can dispel such lies. Offering causal explanations is a vital task of this project.
Julian Go
wiley   +1 more source

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