Decolonization

User icon André Avorio
28 April 2022
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Decolonization or decolonisation is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby a nation establishes and maintains its domination of foreign territories, often overseas territories. Image by Anoushka Khandwala.


desLibris · 14 November 2016 English

Thank you also to the Reconciliation and the Media Committee, co-chaired by Mervin Brass and Betty-Ann Adam, for bringing the TRC’s Call to Action on the Media to public attention …


AHF: Aboriginal Healing Foundation · 24 May 2006 English

Post-colonial psychology - the emotional and behavioural characteristics of a colony relating to or being the time following the establishment of independence; the science (or study) dealing with the emotional, …


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 31 October 2018 English

Treating bodies as more than discursive in social research can feel out of place in academia. As a result, embodiment studies remain on the outside of academic knowledge construction and …


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 23 September 2017 English

One woman's personal journey of moving deeper into Indigenous knowledge and working to resist the racist and sexist legacy of the Indian Act.


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 1 November 2015 English

By uncovering residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English, Mareike Neuhaus shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as …


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 4 September 2020 English

In June 2015, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission released 94 Calls to Action that urged reform of policies and programs to repair the harms caused by the Indian Residential Schools. …


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 2019 English

Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi …