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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Western Knowledge"”.
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Boundarywalkers: conceptualizing the dynamics of equitable science between Indigneous and Western knowledge
Through interviews with Western educated scientists who also identify as Indigenous tribal members, this study seeks to understand how two knowledge systems, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and Western Science Knowledge Systems (WSKS) can cogenerate knowledge. Interviewees for this study, as …
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Kinship with country : acts of translation in the cross-cultural performance space : a case study on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of Central Australia
… of a continent linked by the Songlines of the Western Desert Peoples' Creation Ancestors under Anangu Law. The other is a Western map of a continent divided by the state borders of colonial ancestors under British Law. This research project was generated from the philosophical statement of …
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Kinship with country : acts of translation in the cross-cultural performance space : a case study on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of Central Australia
… of a continent linked by the Songlines of the Western Desert Peoples' Creation Ancestors under Anangu Law. The other is a Western map of a continent divided by the state borders of colonial ancestors under British Law. This research project was generated from the philosophical statement of …
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Do no harm: decolonising Aboriginal health research
… health and well-being in relation to the Western dominance of knowledge production and ongoing colonisation in Aboriginal health research. Positivistic methods used in health research are interrogated in relation to their lack of contextualisation of the objects (Aboriginal persons) …
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Mourning and melancholy: a comparative study on Christopher Okigbo and Dambudzo Marechera
… main predicament they have to challenge is the Western knowledge system which infiltrated into mindsets through colonial dominion. Thus, Okigbo and Marechera enact a certain type of positionality strategy to claim their own poetic utterance. By invoking natural and spiritual images the poets …
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Salt Flats, Finger Islands, and Ponds: Reading the Landscape through Infrastructure in Tampa, Florida
… ways of knowing, this thesis seeks to trouble western knowledge that has foreclosed other ways of knowing the natural world.
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Inner Spirit/Fire and Indigenous Student/Researcher Identity: Differing Spaces from an Ojibway Perspective
… framework to bridge and equate Indigenous knowledge with western knowledge in the academy. Honouring oral traditions of the Anishinaabeg, I use Indigenous autoethnography (IA) coupled with arts-based research to tell my story. Gathering data, I engaged in ceremony and used creative …
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Culturally-Relevant Information Literacy: A Case Study
… incorporating information into an individuals’ knowledge base. This process has been formalized into the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. The concept of Information Literacy as articulated in the ACRL Standards is based on Western knowledge and ways of knowing …
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Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500-1900
… hierarchical system that produces and locates Western knowledge, cosmology and spirituality over non-Western forms. This dissertation, therefore, outlines a methodological trajectory that does not instrumentalize the theological to a materialist rendition of capitalist accumulation, colonial …
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The price of Mauri: Exploring the validity of welfare economics when seeking to measure Mātauranga Māori
… to support the view of the inherent dominance of Western knowledge. This is particularly concerning, given that Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand), have an important role to play in New Zealand resource management and perceive their own knowledge systems have been marginalised. The …
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Absorptive, adopted and agile: A study of the digital transformation of Africa carriers
… consequence of post-colonial social net and western knowledge dominant environment. Vested interest plus corruption slowed down the process of digital adoption while arbitrary administration causes unnecessary concerns for participants. Traditionalism of Africa is a trade-off between customs …
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Evaluating the decolonisation of the Humanities curriculum at the University of Cape Town: Khanyisa courses as a case study
… thereby disrupting existing hierarchies of knowledge. Furthermore, the thesis argues that the various modules also adopt different approaches in terms of Jansen's (2017) six conceptions of decolonisation and this varied from the different lecturers that taught the modules of the ELL1013F …
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Relationality over Coloniality: An Inquiry into Decolonizing Settler-isms with Indigenous Futurisms
… white supremacy and the superiority of Euro-western knowledge, come into focus. In the first two chapters I address colonial inheritances regarding the epistemic violence embedded within normative structures of contemporary society as barriers to relationality. Specifically, shame in …
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The Compressed Modernity of Legalizing Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan: Digital Activism, Human Rights Discourse, and Intertwined Sexual, Political and National Identities
… influenced by queer studies as a form of western knowledge production, local scholars and activists created a new interpretation from “queer” to “tongzhi.” Entangled with complex political identifications in post-martial-law Taiwan, <em>tongzhi</em> activism had thrived over the past 30 …
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Dislocating the Body and Transcending the Imperial Eye (I): The role of Abaphantsi, through iiZangoma, as pioneers for transformative research methodologies and organic intellectualism
… through their construction of indigenous knowledge systems, construct African bodies and how this impacts knowledge and research methods. I discuss how the corporeal bodies of Sangomas have been constructed, particularly through problematic research approaches which focus on observations …
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The ‘Visa Student Dream’: An Examination of Shifting Trends and Vulnerabilities in Chinese International Student Populations Within Toronto’s Secondary Schools
… success are rooted in Whiteness that validates Western knowledge, with concepts like racial capitalism playing a role in exploiting Chinese international students. Issues and concerns regarding the academic, social, and housing/guardianship experiences of Chinese international youth were also …
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The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759–1857
… for information about China exceeded British knowledge of the Qing Empire. China’s historical isolation had resulted in two substantial gaps in Western knowledge of the Middle Kingdom: the first between Marco Polo’s thirteenth-century travelogue and seventeenth-century Jesuit scholarship; and …
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Healing the Colonial Wound: Decolonising Ghanaian Art Education through Reparative Art Praxis
… system has marginalised Ghanaian art and knowledge through the logics of British coloniality. Coloniality has had a pervasive influence on Ghanaian art education, both in the national systems in which teachers are trained and teach, as well as the popular international school systems. …
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Greening Architecture Design Education: A Proposed Framework for Saudi Arabia
… many requirements—informed by developments in knowledge, technology, and science. These stakeholders are asking architects to design for lower operational cost, good daylighting and views, and higher indoor environmental quality (IEQ). Integrating all of these issues in building design is a …
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Bowu and the Natural World in the Formation of Modern China
… China as ‘broad learnings’ and which refers to knowledge with a great diversity of origins across Chinese history. Arguing for its enduring relevance in knowledge-making of the natural world in China, this thesis presents a first step in investigating the long-term history of *bowu* by tracing …
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