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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Decolonial Thought"”.
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Encountering Agency with Decolonial Thought, New Materialism, and The Vegetarian
… two political theoretical frameworks -- decolonial thought and new materialism – with the South Korean novella The Vegetarian. I suggest that the novella, especially through its protagonist, performs a form of agency which calls for a reading that hinges not on the pursuit of definitive …
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Planning Beyond Crisis: The Promise of Insurgent Planning in Post-Disaster Mocoa
… on contemporary debates on anti-crisis, risk and decolonial thought, the dissertation imagines an alternative paradigm for planning beyond crisis that enables radical community action through dissenting grassroots leadership. Keywords: crisis urbanism, technocratic resistance, insurgent planning, …
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“Liberdade, força e dar a volta por cima”: um estudo de caso sobre o Projeto Lugar de Fala na Comunidade de Atendimento Socioeducativo Feminina do Estado da Bahia
… theoretical contributions of Black feminism and decolonial thought, this research sought to understand how the absence of a locus of speech manifests in the daily lives of those deprived of liberty and in the documents that formalize the adolescents' trajectories, such as the Plano Individual de …
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com-posing abolitionist≠posthumanism: notes on incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics
… textures, postulations and challenges posed by decolonial thought, Indigenous critical theories, Black studies, critical race feminisms, non-philosophy and theories on digitality, i pose incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics as moments for desedimenting “the Human” as …
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Re-mapping the Atlantic: transatlantic mobility in contemporary African literature in French and English
… do this, a critical framework that combines the decolonial thought of Achille Mbembe with recent insights from the field of Mobilities Studies will be adopted. This critical approach allows for examination of how Adichie, Bassy, Selasi, Waberi, and Miano contribute to the development of a novel …
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The lived experiences of black managers in accessing top management positions within the Namibian private corporate sector
This PhD study draws from anticolonial and decolonial thought systems to explore how multi-level factors; macro-level (social-contextual contextual histories, economic, legal and religious), meso-level (organisational cultures, structures, processes and procedures), and micro-level (interpersonal …
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Addressing Injustices through MOOCs: A study among peri-urban, marginalised, South African youth
… designer’s understanding of social justice and decolonial thought, they placed varying emphasis on addressing different forms of injustice. Some focused on resource, access and infrastructural barriers, while others focused on issues of content relevance and knowledge production. Furthermore, …
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Decolonizing Revelation: A Spatial Reading of the Blues
<p>Decolonizing Revelation: A Spatial Reading of the Blues demonstrates that the cultural phenomenon of the blues is an indigenous way of knowing that offsets the hidden logic of racialized dominance within modern Christian understandings of revelation. In distinction from the Christian, Religious, …
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Poetics of the Abyss: History, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality in Édouard Glissant's Early Thought
… possibilities of a specific form of Caribbean thought that arises out of the particularities of Antillean history: Édouard Glissant’s notions of antillanité and an archipelagic thought. By means of a critical analysis of one of the “beginnings” of the history of the Caribbean (the slave trade …
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A return to the ground: movement, land, and modes of existence in Nkambeni, South Africa
… Ultimately, the research contributes to emerging decolonial scholarship in the humanities by offering a recursive account of movement and compositeness as both method and encounter, enabling an exploration of ontological questions in postcolonial Africa. This study is not a mere rejection of …
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“The Journey of Relocation,” A Reflective Autoethnography, Digital Story Telling, and Netnography: Experiences of South Asian Immigrants in Canada
… Colonial legacies, imperialism, capitalism, decolonial lens,