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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"decolonising"”.
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Decolonising Cosmopolitanism
… deficiencies of dominant Eurocentric paradigms, Decolonising Cosmopolitanism equips us with tools to explain, and to identify potentials to transform ourselves and our world. My main argument is that injustice in our world involves backward-looking and forward-looking problems of interactional, …
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Do no harm: decolonising Aboriginal health research
This thesis addresses the question: Why has health research not improved Aboriginal health? Exploring this question from an Indigenous perspective required the development of a methodological approach that I personally undertook as a journey, as both a participant and researcher. This methodology …
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Decolonising Pākehā ways of being: Revealing third space Pākehā experiences
This thesis asks two central questions. First, what kinds of experiences occur when Pākehā become interested and involved in te ao Māori (the Māori world)? Second, how might sharing of these experiences help other Pākehā better understand their relationship with Māori? The account is grounded in …
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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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Exploring Volunteer Tourism for Happiness in Fiji: A Decolonising Methodology Perspective
… contributes to critical debates on ethical and decolonising approaches to tourism by offering a culturally grounded, gender-sensitive, and community-led understanding of happiness. It challenges Western individualist models and underscores the need for VT frameworks that centre Indigenous …
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Decolonising Public Relations in Africa: Centring Local Epistemes in Ghanaian Political Communication
… African countries were faced with the task of decolonising. Countries were renamed as part of a broader Africanisation agenda. A quest for decoloniality and Africanity was manifest in many ways. However, efforts to decolonise media and communication studies have so far been “media centric”. …
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Healing the Colonial Wound: Decolonising Ghanaian Art Education through Reparative Art Praxis
In this study, I demonstrate how the Ghanaian educational 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 …
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Decolonising the Informal: Discourse, Everyday Life, and the Politics of Urbanisation in Windhoek, Namibia
… fragments of colonial urbanisation into a decolonising urbanism. I argue that this form of alter-urbanisation provides a point of departure for an alternative professional spatial practice, the outlines of which I trace through reflecting on a co-productive spatial intervention at the …
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Decolonising the University: A Study of Histories and History Departments in Welsh Higher Education
[Extracted from the introduction in lieu of abstract]<br/>Traditionally, the Oxford dictionary summarises ‘Decolonisation’ as follows: “[The] withdrawal from its colonies of a colonial power: the acquisition of political or economic independence by such colonies.” This definition does not apply so …
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Decolonising the body in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
This master’s thesis examines the literature of the Caribbean diaspora and investigates how it subverts colonial paradigms. Therein, the use of the material body as a subaltern knowledge system is read as an act of decolonial resistance. The analysis focuses on two English-language novels by …
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Decolonising the media : the use of indigenous African languages in South African television advertisements
Advertisements in African languages are generally confined to radio, and in that medium are factual, dialogic and direct. When used in television advertising, however, South Africa’s indigenous languages play a less informative role, being employed rather to index a concretised African essence, …
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Decolonising legal research: Developing legal theory to articulate Māori and non-Māori legal research paradigms equitably
… I foreground the epistemological character of decolonising legal research that supports Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s call for research to be conceived differently and highlight the need for an integrated recognition of kaupapa Māori in the development of legal theory in Aotearoa New Zealand. …
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The Value of Counter-Storytelling in Decolonising the Curriculum: Insights from an Art School Educational Developer
… articulate the value of counter-storytelling for decolonising Higher Education curricula and exemplify this with outputs from three projects I led at the University of the Arts London between 2018-2022. I critically frame and reflect on these project outputs as practice research to illustrate what …
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Decolonising Academic Integrity; A critical literature review of Global South international postgraduate students’ experiences at UK universities
This dissertation examines how postgraduate Global South international (GSIP) students perceive and experience academic integrity in UK higher education. Academic integrity remains central to university governance and reputation, yet its principles and procedures are often shaped by Eurocentric …
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Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay
For my MFA, I aimed to reflect on my personal experiences and family history through the medium of a film essay and installation. By showing it in a public space, I hope to start a conversation about how white South Africans can reimagine their role within the decolonisation project as one that is …
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Whakapapa as episto-methodology - Decolonising economies through a place-based kin study of Whakatōhea kuku (green-lipped mussels)
… This thesis aims to contribute to the project of decolonising Māori economies through a focus on whakapapa. It adopts a whakapapa-based approach to examine Whakatōhea kuku economies, investigating obligations involved, more-than-human agency, and the diversity of ways that livelihoods are …
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Weaving the Black Tapestry: A Decolonising Counter-Storytelling of Black Doctoral Student Experiences in the UK, Analysed with Loom Analysis
The lived experiences of Black doctoral researchers in the UK is an area which remains relatively under-researched in contrast to comparable English-speaking post-colonial nations like the USA and South Africa (Ahmet, 2020). As such, it is an area that could benefit from additional research to help …
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Decolonising Advertising through Diversity: Practical strategies for challenging colonial thinking and practices in the production of publicity campaigns within the spectacle of Mexican Advertising.
… in and of itself does not resolve the problem of decolonising but is making a small contribution to this area by creating greater diversity in Mexican Advertising through subversive strategies.
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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
… 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 the community, science and society and the world of academia and the world of Africans. Implicit was the need for science to be …
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Decolonising and Africanising the Further Education And Training (FET) history curriculum in South Africa (Grades 10-12): integration of heritage sites and institutions of memory in the Western and Eastern Cape
The politics of heritage have progressively played a critical role in South African socio-political life since 1994. As an example, heritage institutions have played a major role in re-centring histories that were pushed to the periphery within the decolonisation discourse in post-Apartheid South …
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