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A feminist manifesto of resistance against intellectual property regimes: reclaiming the public domain as an open-access information commons 反对知识产权制度的女权主义宣言:将公共领域重新确立为开放获取的信息公地

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1909881

Sasha Mathew

引用次数: 0

Decolonizing knowledge within and beyond the classroom 课堂内外的非殖民化知识

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1920749

S. Kessi, Zoe Marks, Elelwani L. Ramugondo

引用次数: 3

A Fanonian theory of rupture: from Algerian decolonization to student movements in South Africa and Brazil 法诺式的断裂理论:从阿尔及利亚的去殖民化到南非和巴西的学生运动

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1884106

Josh Platzky Miller

引用次数: 8

Towards decoloniality in a social work programme: a process of dialogue, reflexivity, action and change 在社会工作方案中实现去殖民化:对话、反思、行动和变革的过程

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1886136

Shahana Rasool, Linda Harms-Smith

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引用次数: 9

Maasai perspectives on modernity: narratives of evolution, nature and culture 马赛人对现代性的看法:进化、自然和文化的叙述

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-07 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2020.1850303

Van Wijngaarden

引用次数: 1

Storytelling as a political act: towards a politics of complexity and counter-hegemonic narratives 讲故事作为一种政治行为:走向复杂政治和反霸权叙事

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-04 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2020.1850304

Kira Erwin

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引用次数: 7

The alternative theory of state-minded protest texts in the music of democratic Nigeria 民主尼日利亚音乐中具有国家意识的抗议文本的替代理论

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2020-09-17 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2020.1810085

Garhe Osiebe

引用次数: 0

African feminist epistemic communities and decoloniality 非洲女权主义认知社区与去殖民化

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2020.1810086

A. Okech

引用次数: 25

Decolonizing forestry: overcoming the symbolic violence of forestry education in Tanzania 非殖民化林业:克服坦桑尼亚林业教育的象征性暴力

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2020.1788961

E. Sungusia, J. Lund, Y. Ngaga

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引用次数: 6

Decolonizing African Studies 非殖民化非洲研究

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2020.1813413

S. Kessi, Zoe Marks, Elelwani L. Ramugondo

引用次数: 43