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Decolonising Epistemologies, Pluralising Justice: Insights from the Field of Indigenous Studies

Jessika Eichler, Philippe Boucher, Max Virupaksha Katner, Freddy Sebastián Medina Sepulveda, Lorena Albornoz

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa);Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (2025), 66 pp.

"This paper pursues an ambitious agenda in that it seeks to decolonise Indigenous relations with (the) State(s), departing from the very sources and forms of knowledge, commonly established logics and structures in the academic world, and by introducing the reader to Indigenous forms of knowledge an ... more

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AI Ethics from the Majority World: Reconstructing the Global Debate through Decolonial Lenses, 23. - 24. May 2024

Bonn: Bonn University, Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) (2024)

"To foster a multifaceted perspective on AI ethics, a pluriversal approach needs to be employed. This two-day workshop “AI Ethics from the Majority World: Reconstructing the Global Debate Through Decolonial Lenses” offers a forum to discuss alternatives to the status quo of AI ethics. Hosted by ... more

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Decolonising the future academy in Africa and beyond: Institutional development and collaboration

Michaela Pelican, Karim Zafer, Michael Bollig (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2025), 236 pp.

"What does it mean to decolonise academia in Africa? Is this important project limited to the humanities? Is it a project for the future? Are there forerunners at African universities today? The contributors to this volume show different trajectories for anthropology as a discipline and for decoloni ... more

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How to Break Digital Colonialism in African Software Development

Jan Kroeze

ICTworks, March 5 (2025)

"The promise of technology as a vehicle for African economic development often comes wrapped in the values and norms of the Global North. Western-designed software, pervasive across the Continent, reflects ideologies that may not align with indigenous African values. Digital colonialism is the enfor ... more

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Challenging Global Development: Towards Decoloniality and Justice

Henning Melber, Uma Kothari, Laura Camfield, Kees Biekart (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 260 pp.

"This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice. Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can b ... more

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Internet Shutdowns, Sovereignty, and the Postcolonial State in Africa

Nicole Stremlau

Global Policy (2024), 8 pp.

"Despite strong international condemnation, there is growing acceptance of internet shutdowns as a legitimate response to online content that governments—particularly in Africa—find concerning. This article explores government decision- making around internet shutdowns during contentious periods ... more

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Decolonisation: The media challenge

Henry Roberts

International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) (2024), 28 pp.

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Digital Coloniality: An Ubuntu perspective

Jan H. Kroeze

Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, volume 36, issue 2 (2024), pp. 175-216

"[...] How does the sub-Saharan African philosophy of Ubuntu bring the concept of digital coloniality to light? The main aim of the article is to define the concepts of digital colonialism and digital coloniality, to provide clear examples thereof and to provide some guidelines for corrective interv ... more

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Responsible AI in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Damian Okaibedi Eke, Kutoma Wakunuma, Simisola Akintoye (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxi, 216 pp.

"This open access book contributes to the discourse of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) from an African perspective. It is a unique collection that brings together prominent AI scholars to discuss AI ethics from theoretical and practical African perspectives and makes a case for African valu ... more

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Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China

Amitav Acharya, Daniel A. Bell, Rajeev Bhargava, Yan (eds.) Xuetong

Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press (2023), xi, 318 pp.

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Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development: Starting from the South

Margit van Wessel, Tiina Kontinen, Justice Nyigmah Bawole (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 348 pp.

"At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in ci ... more

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A Decolonial Approach to Open-Access Repositories: How to Set Up a Subject Repository for Documents on International Cultural Relations

Nora Schmidt

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 78 pp.

"This study is based on desk research, supplemented by a three-month open commenting period and a public workshop whose participants have substantial experience in the technologies and practices analysed, or are members of the communities of practice, amongst them experts who work in “Global South ... more

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Fotogeschichten und Geschichtsbilder: Aneignung und Umdeutung historischer Fotografien in Tansania

Eliane Kurmann

Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 393 pp.

"In Tansania etablierten sich seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes neue und eigenständige Praktiken in der Verwendung kolonialer Hinterlassenschaften. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Gebrauchsweisen dreier Fotografien aus dem späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert zeigt Eliane Kurmann, wie Tansanierinn ... more

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Disputed archival heritage

James Lowry (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiv, 342 pp.

"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerg ... more

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Papa Francisco e o pensamento decolonial: Uma voz do Sul do mundo

Maria Kofferman

Teologia y Vida, volume 64, issue 3 (2023), pp. 299-320

"Este artículo estudia el magisterio del papa Francisco en confrontación con el pensamiento decolonial latinoamericano. A partir de las bases epistemológicas que emergen del contexto latinoamericano, a través de pensadores como Educardo Restrepo, Axel Rojas, Erick Torrico Villanueva y Catherine ... more

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Analisando as perspectivas climáticas decoloniais: O caso da região da Amazônia Legal brasileira

Pedro Affonso Ivo Franco, Marina Caetanoifa

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 79 pp.

"Este estudo é realizado dentro da estrutura do Programa de Pesquisa do ifa „Cultura e Política Externa“, no qual especialistas analisam tópicos atuais das relações culturais internacionais e desenvolvem recomendações para futuras medidas de política cultural externa. Ele discute o poten ... more

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Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives

Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Colin Chasi, Zubeida Jaffer, Mvuso Ponono (eds.)

London, New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 271 pp.

"This volume responds to the great need to rethink journalism from various perspectives including journalism training, research, the contents of the news media, language, media ethics, the safety of journalists and gender inequities in the news media." (Publisher description)

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‘Top-Tier’ Journals: Does a Global Reputation Mean a Global Orientation?

Cherian George, Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis

Global Media Studies Network, March 20 (2023)

"Academia as an industry has come to rely on journal impact factors as convenient proxy measures of faculty members’ research quality. As competition intensifies — among individuals, departments, and universities — such bibliometrics have grown in importance. At many institutions, researchers ... are pushed to publish in journals that are highly ranked. Many scholars of non-western societies have long noted, though, that “top-tier” journals, while international in reputation, are far from global in orientation. This is an issue that we and our colleagues in the Global Media Studies Network are keen to discuss. First, though, what exactly is the current state of affairs? We looked at 20 SSCI-indexed communication journals with high five-year journal impact factors. We categorised all the articles they published in 2021 and 2022 according to their geographic focus: what country or countries was each article studying? Here is what we found: [see chart]. This snapshot shows clearly that top-tier journals generally have a geographic diversity problem. Most of the articles are about the west, with a high proportion of articles focusing purely on the United States. Also striking is the lack of North-South comparative work, despite years of advocacy for comparative research. The chart may underestimate the imbalance. We coded many of the articles— literature reviews, meta-studies, or purely methodological or theoretical pieces— as geographically “non-specific” as they have no explicit focus on any particular country, but since these tend to be built on past work that was even less diverse than the field is now, most of these should probably be considered genetically western. One interesting pattern is that journals devoted to digital communication host a higher proportion of non-western work. This could be because the digital is so globalised and new that research on phenomena beyond the west (say, disinformation in Kenya’s social media) is intelligible to western editors, while research on older offline phenomena (say, caste discrimination on Indian television) requires extensive contextual explanation that journals do not have the patience for. The digital may also be more amenable than offline communication to the quantitative research methods favoured by many top journals." more

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Global Media Ethics and the Digital Revolution

Noureddine Miladi (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), 292 pp.

"An international team of contributors draw upon global and non-Western traditions to discuss the philosophical origins of ethics and the tension that exists between media institutions, the media market and political/ideological influencers. The chapters then unveil the discrepancies among internati ... more

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Afrika und die Welt: Betrachtungen zur Globalgeschichte Afrikas in der Neuzeit

Arno Sonderegger

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 335 pp.

"Bis heute hält sich der globale Norden für kompetent, Erwartungen an Afrika zu formulieren und dessen Entwicklungen zu bewerten Der Afrikawissenschaftler Arno Sonderegger zeichnet nach, wie Europäer aus imaginierter Überlegenheit heraus über Jahrhunderte den Sklavenhandel aus Afrika betrieben ... more