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This is the introductory essay to the "On Colonial Unknowing" special issue of Theory & Event. In this essay, the issue co-editors theorize colonial unknowing as a practice that endeavors to render unintelligible the entanglements of... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesSocial TheoryEthnic Studies
Mediante este artículo cuestiono el diseño industrial como profesión que soporta el patrón civilizatorio moderno-capitalista, cuyas nocivas repercusiones son planetarias a comienzos del siglo XXI. Ante ello, planteo la posible generación... more
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      SociologyCultural StudiesEducationIndigenous Studies
Between the late 1940s and the 1970s, Europe's empires in Africa and Asia were largely dismantled; in the late 1970s, postcolonial studies as field of scholarly inquiry, primarily in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, began... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesPolitical EcologyAfrican LiteraturePost-Colonialism
Decolonising the Mind is Ngugi Thiong o's contribution to the debate on the choice of language in a post-colonial country. In this book he argues that Africa will be able to break free from the clutches of Western control over its... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesDecolonializationNgugi Wa Thiongo
Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is the axis of evil and devastation of mankind. However, the deliberate use of the term terrorism in recent decades was... more
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      Business EthicsSociologyCriminologyEconomic Sociology
Geography means earth writing, and so it is perhaps fitting that writing itself has become a primary intellectual battleground in contemporary geographical thought. This paper advocates for metaphorical earth writing, arguing that it... more
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      Creative WritingCritical TheoryDiscourse AnalysisSociology
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      Latin American StudiesPower (social)Genocide StudiesIndigenous Politics
While the recent proliferation of sociological engagements with postcolonial thought is important and welcome, central to most critiques of Eurocentrism is a concern with the realm of epistemology, with how sociology comes to know its... more
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      Critical TheorySociologySocial MovementsSocial Theory
The popularity of ‘food sovereignty’ to cover a range of positions, interventions, and struggles within the food system is testament, above all, to the term’s adaptability. Food sovereignty is centrally, though not exclusively, about... more
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      Food SystemsFood Security and InsecurityIndigenous PoliticsDecolonialization
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      Social MovementsInternational RelationsDevelopment StudiesFeminist Theory
" Those machines whose output was so great that all men might be clothed; those new methods of agriculture and new agricultural implements, which promised crops so big that all men might be fed—the very instruments that were to give the... more
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      Critical TheoryPhilologyMythology And FolkloreSocial Theory
Modernity and a True Return to Nature 0. Point of Departure Question How are human-nature relations and the attainment of virtue through human-nature relations understood in the classical urban theory of Geddes and Mumford? How is... more
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      Critical TheoryPhilologyModern HistorySocial Theory
Introducción: pensar lo colonial Introduction: thinking on the colonial question Introdução: pensando o colonial Laura Catelli, Mario Rufer y Alejandro De Oto Universidad Nacional de San Juan / Universidad Nacional de Rosario /... more
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      Post-ColonialismDecolonializationColonial Latin American HistoryDecolonial Thought
Este trabalho tem como propósitos (1) fundamentar e caracterizar as categorias analíticas de cisgeneridade e cisnormatividade, propondo-as como relevantes para reflexões políticas, acadêmicas, existenciais sobre as diversidades de corpos e... more
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      Transgender StudiesGender and SexualityAutoethnographyIntersectionality Theory
In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of CODESRIA, an institution from the Global South devoted to taking responsibility for the production of social science knowledge, this article explores what it means to pursue such a task under... more
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      Critical TheoryBlack Studies Or African American StudiesAfrican StudiesDevelopment Studies
La obra de Gamaliel Churata, fundador en los años veinte del grupo Orkopata, representa al interior del debate indigenista peruano un momento clave en que se establecen relaciones fecundas con el pensamiento moderno y en que, a la vez, el... more
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      Post-ColonialismDecolonializationAndean CulturePeruvian Literature
In this article we will review the anthropological work of the Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant, in its relationship with the scientific instrumentalization by imperial policies of the time, and from the point of view of the Latin... more
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      American LiteratureAmerican HistoryEthnohistoryEthnic Studies
Large-scale population transfers are immensely disruptive. Interestingly, though, their legal status has shifted considerably over time. In this book, Umut Özsu situates population transfer within the broader history of international law... more
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      Intellectual HistoryEconomic HistoryComparative LawPolitical Economy
This entry is part of the Equity Issues Portfolio's series on Indigenizing the academy and Indigenous education.
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      Indigenous StudiesIndigenous or Aboriginal StudiesRace and RacismRace and Ethnicity
DESCRECIMIENTO: Edición ampliada latino americana. El decrecimiento se resiste a una definición simple. Como la libertad o la justicia, el decrecimiento expresa una aspiración que no puede ser encerrada en una frase. El decrecimiento es... more
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      DecolonializationEconomiaDesarrollo Local / Local DevelopmentGeografia
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesGerman StudiesHebrew Literature
Reason and rationality, upon which modern, westernized, societies have been founded, have powerfully characterized the nature of human relations with other species and with the natural world. However, countless indigenous and traditional... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreLandscape EcologyFuture StudiesAnthropology
""Postcolonialism is now an extensive body of theoretical and empirical knowledge that draws on Edward Said's critique of Orientalism, the Subaltern Studies collective, and other critical anti-colonial scholarship. While postcolonial... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural HistoryCultural StudiesPolitical Sociology
Las relaciones interpersonales que se desarrollan en el espacio áulico entre profesores y estudiantes, en las cuales los contenidos curriculares tienen una importancia extraordinaria. Es preciso que los profesores reconozcamos la... more
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      DecolonializationDecolonial TurnDecolonial ThoughtEducación
This article presents a social cartography of responses to the violences of modernity and uses this cartography to analyse different meanings and practices of decolonization in the context of higher education. As a pedagogical rather than... more
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      Indigenous StudiesHigher EducationIndigenous KnowledgeEquity and Social Justice in Higher Education
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      Postcolonial StudiesTrauma StudiesDecolonializationLiterature and Trauma
In the last few years, Native filmmakers have begun drawing explicitly on the science fiction genre. Engaging recent short films depicting noncolonial encounters of the third kind and alternative utopian–dystopian futures, I argue that... more
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      Visual AnthropologyIndigenous StudiesIndigenous or Aboriginal StudiesIndigenous Media
Sobre el sentipensar macondiano universal Este segundo tomo del sentipensamiento, reflexiona sobre su época, sus instituciones, estados, formas de democracia republicana y deliberativa; la desigualdad social, cultural, educativa... more
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      Critical TheorySociologyGeographyLatin American Studies
This chapter examines anarchist approaches to ethno-cultural difference , offering three main arguments. The first is that anarchists were early and consistent opponents of racism and imperialism, both in advanced capitalist countries and... more
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      Political PhilosophyMulticulturalismPolitical TheoryRace and Racism
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      CommunicationRhetoricWhiteness StudiesPostcolonial Theory
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      HistoryIntellectual HistoryCultural HistoryMarxism
El giro decolonial se ha preocupado más por la cuestión ideopolítica, epistémica y epistemológica que por la problemática disciplinar (pedagógica, curricular y didáctica), y su ocupación en lo relacionado con la evaluación de los... more
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      DecolonializationDecolonial ThoughtEducaciónPedagogia
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      ReligionBuddhismHistorical AnthropologyInternational Relations
Se estudia en esta monografía dos paradigmas de las Ciencias Sociales Latinoamericanas en terminos comparativos, a saber, La teoría marxista de la Dependencia y el Pensamiento Decolonial a partir de cinco dimensiones: epistemología... more
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      Latin American StudiesDecolonializationAnibal QuijanoDependency Theory
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      ReligionChristianityHistorySociology
Desde los años ochenta, los estudios sobre las mujeres árabes y/o musulmanas han experimentado un auge espectacular en los ámbitos académicos, entre otros. Los debates sobre mujeres, feminismo e Islam y también sobre lo que ha venido a... more
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      Feminist TheoryIslamic StudiesWomen and Gender Issues in IslamPostcolonial Feminism
El presente artículo da cuenta de las críticas que han surgido desde algunos países latinoamericanos al grupo Modernidad-Colonialidad, la expresión más visible de una corriente teórica que en la actualidad ha consolidado su in... more
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      Latin American StudiesPostcolonial StudiesPostcolonial TheoryPostcolonial Literature
The book 'Socjalistyczny postkolonializm. Rekonsolidacja pamięci' (Socialist Postcolonialism: Memory Reconsolidation) is about the Polish postcolonial tradition of before 1989, which has been blanked out of memory. The year 2000, i.e.,... more
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      Non Fiction WritingWorld LiteraturesGlobalizationGlobalisation and cultural change
How do the lived conditions of colonialism assume particular forms of legibility and dissociation in relation to imperial nation-states such as the United States, where a variety of colonialisms remain both constitutive and continuing,... more
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      Critical TheorySociologyCultural StudiesEconomic Sociology
La dinámica y evolución del movimiento feminista y la diversidad de enfoques que han proliferado a lo largo de su historia, ha contribuido a la emergencia de formas “otras” de concebirlo: feminismo intercultural, feminismo crítico y... more
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      DecolonializationDecolonial ThoughtFeminismoDecolonialidad
Este trabajo de investigación pretende evidenciar la visualidad decolonial en el proceso del arte indígena contemporáneo de Norteamérica: Canadá y Estados Unidos de América. La idea central surge como la elaboración de un mapa imaginario... more
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      DecolonializationContemporary Indigenous ArtsVisualityPensamiento decolonial
This article focuses on the geo- and body-politics of knowledge production related to global citizenship education. It introduces a set of concepts and questions, developed in the work of (mainly) Latin American scholars, that... more
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      Feminist TheoryGlobal CitizenshipDecolonializationDecolonial Thought
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      LiteraturePoetryDecolonialization
En este artículo reflexionamos sobre la urgencia de decolonizar las ciencias sociales. Es necesario crear formas “otras” de pensar, sentir y existir, lo cual requiere la configuración de nuevos tipos de conocimiento y nuevas “ciencias”... more
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      DecolonializationDecolonial ThoughtEducaciónMetodología y Teoría de la Investigación Social
This master’s thesis explores the encounters between international law, development and postcolonial studies. I focus in particular on how critical international legal scholarship has re-described international law and development using... more
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      International LawPostcolonial StudiesLaw and SocietyCritical Thinking
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      Latin American StudiesComparative PoliticsLatin American and Caribbean HistoryPolitical Science
As wondrous lands are represented as “wastelands” to make way for urban and industrial development in Hawaiʻi, kūpuna or elders and cultural practitioners are currently building a movement across the islands to mobilize moʻolelo (stories... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreHistoryCultural HistoryLandscape Ecology
OPEN ACCESS Rodriguez-Labajos, Beatriz, Ivonne Yánez, Patrick Bond, Lucie Greyl, Serah Munguti, Godwin Ojo and Winnie Overbeek. 2019. Not So Natural an Alliance? Degrowth and Environmental Justice Movements in the Global South, Ecological... more
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      Social MovementsEnvironmental ScienceEconomicsPolitical Ecology