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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Decolonial approach"”.
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Reforming reformed church polity in South Africa's Black Reformed Churches (RCSA) : an African decolonial approach
… the information collected to integrate African decolonial theories and the praxis framework into the polity of the Reformed church. The literature review provides a comprehensive analysis of current scholarly discourse and research pertaining to relevant subject matter. The study's population of …
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Expanding the repertoires of practice of multilingual science student teachers through a decolonial approach to academic literacies at an elite English medium university
… Drawing on academic literacies and decoloniality theorising, this study examines the apprenticeship into the coloniality of schooling for African language speaking students locating deficit, not in the students but in the lingering colonial ideologies of language and literacy in the …
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A decolonial approach to a socially just curriculum? a case study of a first-year common course in an emerging post-apartheid University eMzansi Afrika
… in MIC100. Theories of social justice and decoloniality framed the study. While pointing out some of UMP's complicities in coloniality, the study found MIC100 to have made significant moves towards social justice and decolonization. The main data for this research was the students' reviews …
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SHAKE YA ASS, BUT WATCH YOURSELF: AN INTERSECTIONAL AND DECOLONIAL APPROACH TO EXPLORING THE SEXUALIZATION OF FEMALE RECORDING ARTISTS AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES
… Ass, But Watch Yourself: An Intersectional and Decolonial Approach to Exploring the Sexualization of Female Recording Artists and the Empowerment of Women in the United States, critically examines the phenomenon of sexualization of women in the music industry and its impact on female …
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Iñupiatun Iñuguġlavut Miqłiqtuvut: Let Us Raise Our Children in Iñupiaq
… inaccessible to those who need them most. A decolonial approach to language pedagogy that intertwines peoplehood, language, and cultural context is critical for effective language revitalization. This curriculum will focus on teaching parents to speak Iñupiaq to their children by coupling …
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Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500-1900
… century. World systems and postcolonial approaches to colonial expansion have often reduced questions of theology to a discursive feature of producing difference through the binary frame of self/other in order to justify a will to power, territory, and capital accumulation. My …
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The danger of the single legal story: the effects of international human rights legalization on land issues in Africa
The order of ideas herein presented constitutes a decolonial critique of the constraints inherent in international human rights law, upheld as the gold standard for safeguarding the rights of rural communities in the context of resource extraction within the African landscape. The objective is to …
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Popular talk radio and everyday life in Mauritius
… as practice, the study has used a multilevel approach to find out what do people do to talk radio, what kinds of engagement are pursued, which ethical considerations are valued and the implications for citizenship and democracy in a Mauritian context of power differentials and social …
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From #MenAreTrash to #MensConference: Networked masculinities in South African Twitter
… hashtag #WomenAreTrash. Employing a small data approach, this dissertation engages in a critical thematic analysis of a selection of tweets for each of the hashtags through the theoretical lens of critical masculinity studies. The dissertation takes a decolonial approach to African digital media …
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Queer Tropical Frames: New Representations of Queerness in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
… explores the convergence of queer theory, decolonial thinking, and film studies in Latin America. Situated within this relatively unexplored intersection, this thesis draws critical attention to the place of queerness in the twenty-first-century upsurge of Latin American LGBTIQ-themed …
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Dress and women's self-fashioning in Makonde, Zimbabwe
… constructionism as theoretical frame, I build on decolonial feminist scholarship to interrogate the dominant discourses on womanhood and fashion. The study adopts a qualitative methodological approach comprising in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, observations and personal stories to …
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Contesting transdisciplinary climate knowledge: a decolonial perspective on the FRACTAL project in Windhoek, Namibia
… have particularly propagated transdisciplinary approaches in knowledge production. These new modes of knowledge production seek to deconstruct universalist principles and epistemic authorities from positivist research approaches. The potential of replicating existing power dynamics into these …
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Bread-making cultures and foodway changes of rural communities in the northern Cederberg, South Africa
… The research is grounded in a relational, decolonial approach, and is an extension of an ongoing community-based development project linked to the University of Cape Town. Alongside semi-structured interviews, community-led baking and oven-building workshops were used as a means of data …
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Tamera’s Path to Peace Challenges and Learnings from Cooperation with the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó
… define y entiende la paz desde un marco decolonial, identificando las posibles lagunas que surgen de estar situada y/o haber crecido en un contexto europeo marcado por privilegios históricos y dominación epistémica. A través de la observación participante y de entrevistas, el autor …