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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"epistemic disobedience"”.
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Reclaiming voice through epistemic disobedience: a Black female anti-racist consultant perspective
… of voice. Using Mignolo’s (2009) concept of epistemic disobedience and transformative learning theory, this analysis acts as an example, I believe, of the role of storytelling as a powerful tool of resistance. The second public work, The Anti-Racist Organization, is evaluated for its critique …
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Silence as Voice: Silence, the Body and the Decoloniality of Quiet in Raduan Nassar and Sara Gallardo’s novels of the country.
… silence as an affordance of voice and a site of epistemic disobedience. Through close readings of literary silence, the dissertation develops a theory of reading as listening, proposing that silence demands a sonic sensibility that attends to the unsaid, the peripheral, and the inaudible. It …
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Evaluating the decolonisation of the Humanities curriculum at the University of Cape Town: Khanyisa courses as a case study
… does this decolonial work by means of adopting epistemic disobedience as one of the approaches in how the course is structured and how the content is taught and assessed – with the idea of the students' positionality being at the at the centre of the learning process thereby disrupting existing …
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Towards a Decolonial Haole Rhetoric
… and 4) engagement of cultural rhetorics aim of epistemic disobedience, or delinking, from settler logics. Shifting whiteness from communicative identity to inhabiting whiteness as a decolonial enactment manifests whiteness in the peripheries of decolonial futures. An embrace of decolonial haole …
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“Eles Deturpam o Que Tu És”: Coloniality, resistance, and the reconfiguration of colonial power in Quilombos of Amapá, Brazil
… have colonial structures of racial, spatial, and epistemic domination persisted and been reconfigured in Brazil’s northern region, particularly in Amapá? (2) How do Quilombola women from Amapá experience and resist intersecting forms of racialized labor and territorial dispossession? (3) How do …
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Contesting transdisciplinary climate knowledge: a decolonial perspective on the FRACTAL project in Windhoek, Namibia
… seek to deconstruct universalist principles and epistemic authorities from positivist research approaches. The potential of replicating existing power dynamics into these transdisciplinary spaces has, however, not sufficiently been critically questioned yet. This study proposes that …