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Rethinking the role of Indigenous knowledges in the academy
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This article argued that when located in the Euro-American educational contexts, Indigenous know-ledges can be fundamentally experientially based, non-universal, holistic and relational knowledges of resistance.Abstract:
This paper is an invitation critically to engage in the discussion of ‘Indigenous knowledges’ and the implication for academic decolonization. Among the issues raised are questions of the definition and operationalization of Indigenous knowledges and the challenges of pursuing such knowledge in the Western academy. The paper draws attention to some of the nuances, contradictions and contestations in affirming the place of Indigenous knowledges in the academy. It is pointed out that Indigenous knowledges do not ‘sit in pristine fashion’ outside of the effects of other knowledges. In particular, the paper brings new and complex readings to the term ‘Indigenous’, maintaining that different bodies of knowledge continually influence each other to show the dynamism of all knowledge systems. It is argued that when located in the Euro-American educational contexts, Indigenous knowledges can be fundamentally experientially based, non-universal, holistic and relational knowledges of ‘resistance’. In the discussion,...read more
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Under Western Eyes revisited: Feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles
TL;DR: Under Western Eyes as mentioned in this paper is a critique of "Western feminist" scholarship on Third World women via the discursive colonization of third world women's lives and struggles, exposing the power-knowledge nexus of feminist cross-cultural scholarship expressed through Eurocentric, falsely universalizing methodologies that serve the narrow self-interest of Western feminism.
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Student engagement in the educational interface: understanding the mechanisms of student success
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the negative impact of wider participation and lower completion rates for non-traditional students on student success and retention at higher education institutions and highlight the importance of diversity in higher education.
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Decolonising the university curriculum
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The Power of Social Theory: The Anti-Colonial Discursive Framework
TL;DR: In this paper, the anti-colonial discourse is introduced as a guiding framework for forming alliances and partnerships among anti-oppression activists in the academia and the larger society, based on insights from narratives of "indigeneity" and traditions of anti-racism theory and praxis.
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Participatory Localization: A Social Justice Approach to Navigating Unenfranchised/Disenfranchised Cultural Sites
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the social justice implications of localization and report the results of an empirical study that examines poor designer localization efforts in documentation used in marketing sexuopharmaceuticals and advocate a participatory approach that takes into account user linguacultural, political, economic, legal, and local knowledge systems in the localization process.
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