This paper analyzes the language of cataloguing because the information that librarians and other information professionals provide to others has a huge impact both on how others are viewed and how others view themselves. This ultimately comes down to the way in which words are given meaning and interpreted according […]
2018 • decolonization • information system • libraries • library database • marginalized • representation
Note: I am thankful to have received an email from Dr. Juan Carlos Sandoval today letting me know about this recently published paper. I look forward to learning about more of his research! Cheers, Mark This article reports the development of a collaborative research through the use of a participatory […]
2017 • collaboration • decolonization • indigenous / traditional knowledge • mexico • participatory • sustainability • Veracruz • video • youthThis paper addresses the decolonizing potential of Indigenous counter-mapping in the context of (what is now called) Canada.After historicizing cartography as a technique of colonial power, and situating Indigenous counter-mapping as an assertion of political and intellectual sovereignty, we examine the digital map of Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Plains Cree for Edmonton, Alberta) […]
2016 • Amiskwaciwâskahikan • Canada • counter-mapping • decolonization • digital • mappingImpelled by globalization and decolonization, many museums today seek to position themselves within a global frame of reference which is more genuinely inclusive than was the modernist construct of the “universal” museum. Yet in their renewed encounters with the world, museums are also being challenged to recognize the particularity – […]
2015 • cultural heritage • dance • decolonization • digital • intangible • masquerades • Mende • performanceThrough a critical settler colonialism lens we explore how information and communication technologies (ICT) supports learning, education and training and First Nation control of these processes in remote communities. The central theme of the current study is that decolonization is about land and creating the conditions necessary so Indigenous peoples […]
2014 • Canada • decolonization • First Nations • ICTs • indigenous communities • Keewaytinook Okimakanak • remote regionsAn undisciplinary, peer-reviewed, online Open Access journal committed to decolonization work within education, as part of a larger project of decolonization in society. Vol 1, No 1 (2012) Vol 2, No 1 (2013) Vol 2, No 2 (2013) Focus & Scope Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society solicits any work purposefully […]
decolonization • education • indigenous studies • open access