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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"decolonise"”.
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Decolonising Public Relations in Africa: Centring Local Epistemes in Ghanaian Political Communication
… was manifest in many ways. However, efforts to decolonise media and communication studies have so far been “media centric”. Outliers such as Public Relations have been left out of urgent debates on decoloniality. This thesis addresses this gap by centring local epistemes in public relations in …
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Evaluating the decolonisation of the Humanities curriculum at the University of Cape Town: Khanyisa courses as a case study
… How and why? – ELL1013F) has attempted to decolonise the curriculum in terms of the way the course is structured, the way it is taught and the way the course is assessed. The aim is to establish whether the course fulfils the decolonial project by means of disrupting and challenging the …
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Occupations as housing models: The everyday and political role of collective labour in sustaining an occupation over time
In line with calls to decolonise planning, and planning imaginaries, this dissertation takes seriously one of the most pervasive models of securing housing and connecting to basic services across the global south: the occupation of land and buildings. Emerging literature has established the …
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Defined, But Not Confined: Transnationalism, Transcendence, and Exclusion In the Works of Horatio Parker
… of this thesis thus contributes to efforts to decolonise Parker’s settler colonial attitudes and examine how these influenced his musical choices.
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The Prospects of Personalising Medicine
… form of PM. I consider the rationale to decolonise medicine as it applies to African Traditional Medicine in South Africa. I argue that interpreting this rationale as many do—that African Traditional Medicine is epistemically equivalent to Western mainstream medicine—implies an untenable …
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South African art history: the possibility of decolonising a discourse
In light of recent calls to decolonise curricula at South African universities there has been a renewed interest in what decolonisation might specifically imply for particular academic disciplines. Art history in South Africa has long struggled to move away from its settler colonial origins towards …
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From care inside the laboratory to the world beyond it: a multispecies ethnography of TB science towards growing a decolonised science in South Africa
… conversation with South African student calls to decolonise science that emerged alongside the #RhodesMustFall student movement. In particular, the focus is on a 2016 meeting about decolonising science at the University of Cape Town where students argued for connection between the university and …
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The air allowed for Hair: cultural Inclusivity in Cape Town Private Schools
… relationships, and broader efforts to decolonise education in South Africa.
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Becoming Tangata Tiriti
… intends to both provoke and support non-Māori to decolonise themselves, to reorient as manuhiri, and contribute equitably to vibrant Te Tiriti relationships.
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Toi Tuku Iho: An exploration of oranga and mana motuhake through toi
… this thesis is to reveal how toi can be used to decolonise and re-indigenise research methodologies and facilitate transformation through praxis. Iwi storytellers were interviewed, sharing that within our toi practices lie a myriad of ways to challenge colonial structures and ideologies, ground …
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Sensemaking in Dynamic Business Environments: Managerial Practices in the Oil and Gas Sector in Bahrain
… sensemaking research in developing countries to decolonise Western-based research and ensure that local culture and ideologies are taken into account. In particular, it provides important data for the O&G sector in Bahrain, which is important for the Middle East region. Therefore, this research …
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Decolonisation, Africanisation, and Epistemic Citizenship in post-Rhodes Must Fall South African Universities
… higher education. In South Africa, demands for a decolonised African university are not new and are often inscribed within multiple genealogies and intellectual traditions that examine the relationship between colonial formations and the politics of knowledge production. Given this historicity, …
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Language Ideologies and Decoloniality in Vernac News
… treated in society. In the period of the call to decolonise the university and the curriculum in South Africa, it was particularly important for the study to explore what this meant for language and the language practices within the university. The research explores various understandings, and …
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Indigenising the Screen, Navigating the Currents of Change, a Vision of Fourth Cinema
… tests the hypothesis that it is possible to both decolonise and Indigenise the New Zealand cinema screen. Secondary research explores how those discourses that promoted roles and expectations for Māori within the New Zealand film industry were based principally upon historical colonial ideologies …
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Database Assemblages: Understanding Cultural Heritage Collections Infrastructures as Techno-Social Actors
… and contributes to recent movements to decolonise, reinterpret, and diversify cultural heritage institutions and their collections, exploring how these movements might be reflected in, enacted through, or even impeded by database infrastructures. My research uses data ethnography as a …
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A Capability Approach to Understanding the Intersections between Language, Educational Opportunities, and Identity in South Africa: A Xhosa Speaking Youth Perspective
… The participants' advocated for the need to decolonise education, specifically in regard to perceptions and use of languages, because of the prejudices and judgments based on their ability to speak English rather than their actual skills and capabilities. Participants tended to compare …
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Māori wards in Tauranga Moana and Aotearoa: Liminal local government democracy
… asks how, and in what ways, do Māori wards decolonise local government and encourage greater Māori representation? To explore this question, the empirical chapters are framed around three key aspects of liminality; the in-between positioning of Māori wards reflecting a time of change; this …
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Decolonising legal research: Developing legal theory to articulate Māori and non-Māori legal research paradigms equitably
… Doing so enables the development of decolonised legal research paradigms which allow for the sharing of knowledge from positions of respect. In this work, a new theoretical interpretation of legal research paradigms in our jurisprudence is presented, relying on an interdisciplinary …
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People, politics and power: an investigation of a multi-scalar UK-Kenya conservation partnership
… at the same time. For conservation practice to decolonise, I suggest that changes need to take place on both the level of the individual and on social factors in order to create the transformation that is needed.
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Qualitative research: surveillance measures in the Ghanaian workplace context: how culture differences influence acceptance and effectiveness
… The research also underscores the need to decolonise surveillance studies, advocating for a shift away from Western-centric models to frameworks that acknowledge the socio-cultural and political nuances of the Global South. Real-world implications include the need for …
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