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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"decolonizing"”.
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Decolonizing Diet
Diet related diseases currently threaten the survival of Indigenous people and culture. Many innovative individuals from diverse Indigenous nations combat the threat that obesity and diabetes pose by a return to food ways practiced by Indigenous people prior to the arrival of Europeans and the …
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Decolonizing the Body
<p>The prevailing narrative about California’s history, and in specific the way that it discusses the Spanish Colonial system and the Gold Rush, glosses over the genocide of her indigenous inhabitants and the oppression experienced by those who survived these historical traumas. By focusing on the …
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Decolonizing Nunavut's Art Market
… persistent colonial narrative of Arctic history. Decolonizing and Indigenizing information and communication technologies (ICT) strengthens Inuit engagement in rewriting the past, controlling the dissemination of stories and traditional knowledge, and creating a unified vision of their future. …
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Images of Experience: Decolonizing Medicine
The experiences of illness and trauma are vivid examples of a discontinuity that separates us from those that surround us. In seeking treatment, we enter a very foreign culture, regardless of how long or of how serious our injury or illness. We are disconnected from our personal and private lives …
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Decolonizing the Museum Through Indigenous Collaboration
… with Indigenous communities as a means of decolonizing the museum. This paper will analyze five different case studies of Indigenous collaboration at museums. Using a spectrum of decoloniality this thesis aims to understand how each case study is decolonial, where they fail to be …
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Decolonizing Natural History Museums Through Volunteer Engagement
In recent years, natural history museums have begun to place a greater importance on confronting their colonial pasts, and decolonization has become a popular topic of discussion among museum professionals. When a natural history museum is attempting to decolonize, they must do so at all levels of …
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Developing a Conceptual Framework for Decolonizing Evaluation
… becoming instruments of neocolonialism, more decolonizing evaluation practices are necessary, emphasizing the needs of communities over the interests of donors. However, the field has a limited understanding of how decolonizing evaluation is being practiced and what the consequences are. The …
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Decolonizing Public Places and Public Memory: Kingston Ontario
… might create opportunities for conciliation. Decolonizing municipal heritage practice will require a willingness to experience discomfort and vulnerability, the redress of settler-ignorance, and a commitment to creating new relationships with Indigenous peoples.
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Decolonizing Institutional Practices: Supporting Aboriginal College Student Success
The Aboriginal population is the fastest growing segment of the Canadian population. As a result, it is essential to increase Aboriginal participation in post-secondary studies and persistence to completion. To accomplish these goals, it is necessary to rethink how post-secondary institutions …
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Decolonizing Gender: Indigenous Feminism and Native American Literature
… violence thus asserting an Indigenous feminist decolonizing process that seeks to remove colonial ideological shackles. Thus, I read Native texts for a balanced distribution of power across relationships, specifically gender-based relationships and systems of power. This exploration of …
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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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The long lives of ancestors: decolonizing bioarchaeology in Illinois
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Lessons From The Learning Pathway: A Journey To Decolonizing Evaluation
… of the Learning Pathway was to learn about decolonizing evaluation and support new and emerging evaluators conducting evaluation in ways that reflect community worldviews and values. We wanted to influence the ecosystem in which evaluation takes place in Nova Scotia, so that it can better …
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Decolonizing Psychic Space: Remembering the Indigenous Psychology Movement in Taiwan
This project is part of the historical struggle of the indigenous psychology movement in Taiwan. It turns a critical gaze back upon the movement itself in order to decolonize it from colonial cultural imaginary. The contribution of this project is two-fold. First, on the theoretical level, it …
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Métis or Moniyâw: Explorative stories of decolonizing my Métis identity
… written by and for Aboriginal peoples. Using a decolonizing framework of Indigenous métissage (Donald, 2012) – which brings together complex, and nuanced influences to build knowledge – and an autoethnographic methodology, I explore cultural knowledges through critical self-reflection. I …
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Decolonizing Democratic Hegemony: The Indigenous Movement and Democratization in Ecuador
This thesis examines the role of the indigenous movement in Ecuador on the ongoing process of democratization in that country. My study demonstrates that a comprehensive social movement such as Ecuador's indigenous movement has great potential for having a positive impact on democracy. However, …
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Decolonizing Frontline Healthcare in a Rural-Urban Indigenous Community Health Center
… healthcare workers to be continually more decolonizing in their practices, this study seeks to understand the experiences of providers in their decolonizing journey at Central Interior Native Health Society (CINHS). Seven focus group sharing circle participants and six interview …
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Bleeding Red: Decolonizing the Actor's Process in Search of Emotional Authenticity
The contents of this thesis will discuss the search for emotional authenticity and vulnerability in performance through an investigation of my Indigenous identity and decolonization. Through the role of Maybe Jane and ensemble member in the adaptation of Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's The Yellow …
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