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“The Smell Makes Us Hungry”: When Food Is Not Medicine in Highland Madagascar

Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the wake of major disruptions to global supply chains during the Covid‐19 pandemic, the island nation of Madagascar pursued initiatives for auto‐suffisance, self‐sufficiency, in food supplies and medical treatments. Farming communities in the central highlands experienced an injunction to expand cultivation of both subsistence crops and ...
Gabrielle Robbins
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
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Inverted Eurocentrism: The Consumption of Decolonization in the Global North and a Radical Decolonization Agenda

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Global North and elite spaces in the Global South, the concepts of Eurocentrism and decolonization have come to be associated primarily with identity and location rather than with capitalism and political economy. This article argues that the reason for this can be traced to what Samir Amin calls ‘inverted Eurocentrism’, which entails a
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
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Demystifying Decoloniality: Epistemic Rupture and Material Reality

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonial thought has become increasingly influential across the social sciences, foregrounding coloniality, epistemic injustice, ontological difference and pluriversality as alternatives to Western universalism. This Introduction to the Forum Debate ‘Debating Decolonial Thought’ critically examines the ‘decolonial turn’ in development ...
Sreerekha Sathi
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Rethinking Postcolonial Disillusionment in African Literature: The Case of Femi Osofisan’s Drama

African Studies Quarterly
This study re-examines the concept of postcolonial disillusionment in African literature. The selected texts are examined in relation to the ideology of post-independence disillusionment in African literature, which posits that leadership failure is the
Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade
doaj  

Global Patterns of Epistemic Hierarchy and Dependency in Scientific Research

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The last three decades have witnessed significant transformations in global research systems. Increased scholarly mobility and enhanced connectivity across countries have boosted the globalization of academia. While the global nature and complexity of the international research system are undisputed, there is less agreement among scholars on ...
Andrés F. Castro Torres, Maurizio Esposito, Aliakbar Akbaritabar   +2 more
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Family Transformation in Zimbabwe (2010–Present): A Scoping Review

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This scoping review synthesizes research on family transformation in Zimbabwe (2010–present), mapping trends in family change, methodologies, and thematic foci. Background Zimbabwean families evolved due to socioeconomic crises, migration, and COVID‐19, necessitating changes related to caregiving, family resilience, and family ...
Gwenzi Getrude Dadirai, Sande Nomatter
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“AI Cannot Speak African”: An Intersectional Feminist Perspective on South African Women's AI Engagement

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an intersectional feminist perspective, this study investigates intersectional inequalities in artificial intelligence (AI) engagement among underrepresented non‐Western women. The study employs a qualitative approach and interviews 16 corporate women in South Africa of different races.
Caren Brenda Scheepers, Poh Yen Ng, Chow Siing Sia   +2 more
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Challenging the Monolith: Ambivalence, the Native‐Speaker Ideal and Teacher Preparation in Multilingual South Africa

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the ambivalence of final‐year TESOL pre‐service teachers towards a non‐native‐speaking (NNS) lecturer within a historically white South African university. The research involved twelve student teachers being prepared to teach English as either a home language or a first additional language to high school learners in the ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
wiley   +1 more source