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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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Navigating Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Hype and Fear: Decolonizing ELT Materials Through Generative Artificial Intelligence

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
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Risk Communication Through a Postcolonial Theory Perspective: Lessons from Three Studies on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
This article uses postcolonial theory to examine optimal risk communication practices of new risks and scientific information to non-indigenous communities. The article calls on risk communication scholars and health practitioners to embrace postcolonial
Josephine Adekola
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Humanism with a Difference

Journal of Contemporary Poetics, 2020
One of the central claims made on behalf of postcolonial literature by critics and theorists of postcolonial literature is that this literature highlights the cultural identity of the different nations and communities it represents.
Faisal Nazir
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Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives

From climate change to global pandemics, some of the most vexing questions facing postcolonial societies are entangled with the contradictory role of science in postcolonial contexts.

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A South African Language Teacher Educator's Reflective Journey Through Sociocultural Theory and Asset‐Based Mediation

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This reflective article chronicles a South African English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) university teacher educator's journey from professional disillusionment toward a more intentional, transformative praxis. The catalyst for this journey was the recurring observation of novice teachers abandoning dialogic, asset‐based pedagogies learned ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
wiley   +1 more source

Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Matsuo Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi

Coolabah, 2017
This paper investigates Australian author Richard Flanagan’s novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and attempts to clarify the reason why Flanagan chose this title, which is linked to the travel writings of the Japanese author Matsuo Basho, for his ...
Yasue Arimitsu
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Changing the Terms : Translating in the Postcolonial Era [PDF]

, 2001
This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America.
St-Pierre, Paul, Simon, Sherry, Sherry Simon, Paul St-Pierre   +3 more
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“Does EMI Improve Students' English?” and Other Unanswerable Questions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Questions about EMI often begin from an apparently straightforward premise—does EMI improve students' English? This article argues that the question itself is the source of the main analytic problem. Using EMI as an exemplar of a wider problem in applied linguistics, we show why binary claims about language gain travel poorly across contexts ...
Timothy Hampson, Jim McKinley, Ikuya Aizawa   +2 more
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Global and textual webs in an age of transnational capitalism; or, what isn't new about Empire [PDF]

, 2004
The article offers a postcolonial historicization of contemporary globalization theory, by suggesting that the densely networked British empire of the end of the nineteenth century anticipated the interconnected and mediatized world which we inhabit ...
Boehmer, Elleke
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