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“melissa steyn”

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  • Decolonising the Human

    Reflections from Africa on difference and oppression

    Edited by Melissa Steyn, William Mpofu ...
    Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting ‘the human’ in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressionsThe ‘human’ emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century

    Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions

    by Brandy Jensen, Vanessa Thompson, Tobias Hübinette, Emily R.M. Lind, George Yancy, Nolan L. Cabrera, Anthea Garman, Adela Fofiu, Catrin Lundström, Charles W. Mills, Delores V. Mullings, Melissa Steyn, Becky Thompson ...
    Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after the election of the first black U.S. president, post-global financial crisis, more than a decade ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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  • Childhood in a Global Perspective

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  • Epistemic Freedom in Africa

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    Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displaced ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Social Geography

    Edited by Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., Paul Cloke, Ruth Panelli, Mary Thomas ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    This volume traces the complexity of social geography in both its historical and present contexts, whilst challenging readers to reflect critically on the tensions that run through social geographic thought.Organized to provide a new set of conceptual lenses through which social geographies can be discussedPresents an original intervention into the debates about social geographyHighlights the ... Read more

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  • Sociocultural Studies in Education

    Critical Thinking for Democracy

    by Richard A Quantz ...
    Sociocultural Studies in Education: Critical Thinking for Democracy fills a void in the education of educators and citizens in a democracy. It explores some of the fundamentals around which disagreements in education arise. It presents a process with which those new to these debates can understand often confusing and entwined sets of facts and logics. This book leads the reader through some ... Read more

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  • Borders

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  • Systems of Education

    Theories, Policies and Implicit Values

    Edited by Sohan Modgil, Sohan Modgil, Mal Leicester ...
    Volume 1 is concerned with the theoretical and conceptual framework for reflecting about values, culture and education and thus provides an introduction to the series as a whole. It provides state and policy level analysis across the world. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

    Edited by Marie-Claire Foblets, Mark Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, Olaf Zenker ...
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  • Law and the Politics of Reconciliation

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    Identity, Institutions, and the Postmodern Challenge

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