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Exploring patterns for social‐ecological success of ecosystem restoration worldwide
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Ecosystem restoration is a crucial response to human‐induced land degradation, which threatens biodiversity and ecosystem functions, poses food and water insecurity and undermines livelihoods, cultural values and human–nature relationships. For restoration to be effective and equitable, it is essential to understand how social and ecological ...
Greta Bindernagel +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López +2 more
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Theoretical Encounters: Postcolonial Studies in East Asia
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 2013 Postcolonialism has grown from a minor branch of English literary studies applied to the decolonising movements of the British Empire in the 1950s to a term increasingly applied to various legacies of exploitation, exclusion and discrimination around the
Melissa Kennedy
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Re-orienting the postcolonial: responding to the South, working in the North [PDF]
, 2011 Taking bearings from critical currents of thought in south Asia and black Africa and beyond, this paper discusses some of the differences in how postcolonialism is read from place to place in the light of local politics and culture. The paper makes a
Phillip Darby
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This systematic review reconceptualizes inclusive education (IE) as a cross‐cutting strategy for sustainable development. We analyze 2729 articles published between 2015 and 2025, identifying 357 that explicitly address sustainability. Using PRISMA 2020, bibliometric mapping, and binomial generalized linear models, we examine temporal ...
Mustafa Enes Işıkgöz +1 more
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Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation
The 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
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how everyday linguicism and racism shape the academic and social experiences of international students in Hong Kong, focusing on the racialized subjectivity of a South Asian graduate student. Although research on international students has mainly focused on Western higher education, little attention has been paid to the ...
Pramod K. Sah
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Interdisciplinary Dialogues: Disability and Postcolonial Studies [PDF]
, 2010 Disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies but remains surprisingly absent as a subject of analysis in the field of Postcolonial Studies.
Barker, Clare
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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Despite calls from critical applied linguists to decolonize ELT materials that reproduce colonial ideologies, teachers working under neoliberal constraints and attendant time pressures often have to deliver textbook content as is rather than revising it.
Steven Yeung, John Gray
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