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Academic Freedom and the Decolonization of Knowledge: Conflicts and Dilemmas in Higher Education

Decolonization may be taken as a phase in the history of colonized people that is represented by a movement towards a critique of colonial effects during both colonialism and postcolonialism.

Erik J. Olsson Erik J. Olsson

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Disclosing New Political Forms: Symposium on Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Kevin Olson, Minkah Makalani, Sundhya Pahuja and Adom Getachew. 2020. Disclosing New Political Forms: Symposium on Adom Getachew, Worldmakin...

Sundhya Pahuja Sundhya Pahuja

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Local media: Western media in a context of orality in Africa

This book project in four parts intends to study how people, coming from a centuries-old orality, act in a context of copyright introduced by colonial and postcolonial authority.

Mamadou Diawara Mamadou Diawara

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Comment: The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties

Nyamnjoh, Francis B. 2016. Comment: The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties. Current Anthropology ...

Francis Nyamnjoh Francis Nyamnjoh
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