De/colonizing the Subject

De/colonizing the Subject
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 0816619921
ISBN-13 : 9780816619924
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis De/colonizing the Subject by : Sidonie Smith

De/Colonizing the Subject surveys women's autobiographical practices as they have arisen within and confronted the contexts of colonization and oppression. Challenging a universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cult.

De-Colonizing the Subject

De-Colonizing the Subject
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 518
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ISBN-10 : 9781452902548
ISBN-13 : 1452902542
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis De-Colonizing the Subject by : Sidonie Smith

Decolonizing the Republic

Decolonizing the Republic
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Publisher : MSU Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9781628952636
ISBN-13 : 1628952636
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Decolonizing the Republic by : Félix F. Germain

Decolonizing the Republic is a conscientious discussion of the African diaspora in Paris in the post–World War II period. This book is the first to examine the intersection of black activism and the migration of Caribbeans and Africans to Paris during this era and, as Patrick Manning notes in the foreword, successfully shows how “black Parisians—in their daily labors, weekend celebrations, and periodic protests—opened the way to ‘decolonizing the Republic,’ advancing the respect for their rights as citizens.” Contrasted to earlier works focusing on the black intellectual elite, Decolonizing the Republic maps the formation of a working-class black France. Readers will better comprehend how those peoples of African descent who settled in France and fought to improve their socioeconomic conditions changed the French perception of Caribbean and African identity, laying the foundation for contemporary black activists to deploy a new politics of social inclusion across the demographics of race, class, gender, and nationality. This book complicates conventional understandings of decolonization, and in doing so opens a new and much-needed chapter in the history of the black Atlantic.

Decolonizing Ethnography

Decolonizing Ethnography
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781478004547
ISBN-13 : 1478004541
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Decolonizing Ethnography by : Carolina Alonso Bejarano

In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia López Juárez and Mirian A. Mijangos García—two local immigrant workers from Latin America—joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants and quickly became equal partners for whom ethnographic practice was inseparable from activism. In Decolonizing Ethnography the four coauthors offer a methodological and theoretical reassessment of social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their lives. Tacking between personal narratives, ethnographic field notes, an original bilingual play about workers' rights, and examinations of anthropology as a discipline, the coauthors show how the participation of Mijangos García and López Juárez transformed the project's activist and academic dimensions. In so doing, they offer a guide for those wishing to expand the potential of ethnography to serve as a means for social transformation and decolonization.

Decolonizing Wealth

Decolonizing Wealth
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Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9781523097913
ISBN-13 : 1523097914
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Decolonizing Wealth by : Edgar Villanueva

Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides. Though it seems counterintuitive, the philanthropic industry has evolved to mirror colonial structures and reproduces hierarchy, ultimately doing more harm than good. After 14 years in philanthropy, Edgar Villanueva has seen past the field's glamorous, altruistic façade, and into its shadows: the old boy networks, the savior complexes, and the internalized oppression among the “house slaves,” and those select few people of color who gain access. All these funders reflect and perpetuate the same underlying dynamics that divide Us from Them and the haves from have-nots. In equal measure, he denounces the reproduction of systems of oppression while also advocating for an orientation towards justice to open the floodgates for a rising tide that lifts all boats. In the third and final section, Villanueva offers radical provocations to funders and outlines his Seven Steps for Healing. With great compassion—because the Native way is to bring the oppressor into the circle of healing—Villanueva is able to both diagnose the fatal flaws in philanthropy and provide thoughtful solutions to these systemic imbalances. Decolonizing Wealth is a timely and critical book that preaches for mutually assured liberation in which we are all inter-connected.

The Auto/biographical I

The Auto/biographical I
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0719046491
ISBN-13 : 9780719046490
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Auto/biographical I by : Liz Stanley

This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.

Decolonizing Methodologies

Decolonizing Methodologies
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781848139527
ISBN-13 : 1848139527
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Decolonizing Methodologies by : Linda Tuhiwai Smith

'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date.

Decolonizing Data

Decolonizing Data
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9781487523336
ISBN-13 : 1487523335
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Decolonizing Data by : Jacqueline M. Quinless

Decolonizing Data yields valuable insights into the decolonization of research methods by addressing and examining health inequalities from an anti-racist and anti-oppressive standpoint.

Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore

Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780429749407
ISBN-13 : 0429749406
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore by : Kevin Blackburn

Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries – Malaysia and Singapore. Blackburn and Wu’s book analyzes the transition of the subject of history from colonial education to postcolonial education, from the history syllabus upholding the colonial order to the period after independence when the history syllabus became a tool for nation-building. Malaysia and Singapore are excellent case studies of this process because they once shared a common imperial curriculum in the English language schools that was gradually ‘decolonized’ to form the basis of the early history syllabuses of the new nation-states (they were briefly one nation-state in the early to mid-1960s). The colonial English language history syllabus was ‘decolonized’ into a national curriculum that was translated for the Chinese, Malay, and Tamil schools of Malaysia and Singapore. By analyzing the causes and consequences of the dramatic changes made to the teaching of history in the schools of Malaya and Singapore as Britain ended her empire in Southeast Asia, Blackburn and Wu offer fascinating insights into educational reform, the effects of decolonization on curricula, and the history of Malaysian and Singaporean education.

Decolonizing Extinction

Decolonizing Extinction
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9780822371946
ISBN-13 : 0822371944
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Decolonizing Extinction by : Juno Salazar Parreñas

In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from orangutan care. Drawing on anthropology, primatology, Southeast Asian history, gender studies, queer theory, and science and technology studies, Parreñas suggests that examining workers’ care for these semi-wild apes can serve as a basis for cultivating mutual but unequal vulnerability in an era of annihilation. Only by considering rehabilitation from perspectives thus far ignored, Parreñas contends, could conservation biology turn away from ultimately violent investments in population growth and embrace a feminist sense of welfare, even if it means experiencing loss and pain.