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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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Indigenous knowledge and information technology for sustainable development

Randsome Bawack, Sian Roderick, Abdalla Badhrus, Denis Dennehy, Jacqueline Corbett

Information Technology for Development (2025), 18 pp.

"Despite the proliferation of IT applications worldwide, Indigenous knowledge remains marginalized in the mainstream information technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) discourse. This special section explores tensions and opportunities at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and digital te ... more

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Towards a circular theory of communication: The case of the Wayusa ritual of the traditional Kichwa people of Sarayaku

Ana Cristina Suzina

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 8 (2024), pp. 145-167

"The Wayusa is a community ritual that is part of the exercise of political imagination among the Kichwa Indigenous people of Sarayaku, in Ecuador. In this article it will be discussed as a case study arguing towards a circular theory of communication, emerging from the works of Paulo Freire and cal ... more

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Inteligencia artificial centrada en los pueblos indígenas: Perspectivas desde América Latina y el Caribe

Luz Elena González Zepeda, Cristina Elena Martínez Pinto

Montevideo: UNESCO Office Montevideo and Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (2023), 53 pp.

"Hoy más que nunca advertimos la necesidad de una Inteligencia Artificial (IA) que respete los derechos humanos y las perspectivas de los pueblos indígenas, destacando su papel en la preservación de identidades y patrimonios culturales indígenas. Es fundamental democratizar la IA, incluyendo una ... more

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State of the Art of Indigenous Languages in Research: A Collection of Selected Research Papers

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 395 pp.

"In the context of the International Year and International Decade of Indigenous Languages, a Global Call for Research Papers was commissioned with the aim to show a diversity of scholarship in the field of Indigenous languages and related issues. The international peer-review team carried out a com ... more

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Ûiiti: A treatment for ecological experience in mobile network culture

Greenman Muleh Mbillo Dani Ploeger

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 177-180

"Ûiiti (‘the treatment’) is an Android phone app created by artist duo Greenman Muleh Mbillo, in Kenya, and Dani Ploeger, in the Netherlands. The work is a high-tech iteration of the 'nzevu', a ritual instrument of the Kenyan Akamba tribe. It transforms a smartphone from a networking technology ... more

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Indigenous Research Methodologies

Bagele Chilisa

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2020), xxiv, 368 pp.

"Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspec ... more

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Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities

Sweeney Windchief, Timothy San Pedro (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2019), xxvii, 166 pp.

"Applying Indigenous Research Methods focuses on the question of “How” Indigenous Research Methodologies (IRMs) can be used and taught across Indigenous studies and education. In this collection, Indigenous scholars address the importance of IRMs in their own scholarship, while focusing conversa ... more

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Amazonía: Nuevos caminos para la iglesia y para una ecología integral. Documento preparatorio

Ciudad del Vaticano: Sínodo de los Obispos, Asamblea Especial para la Región Panamazónica (2018), 33 pp.

"Escuchar a los pueblos indígenas y a todas las comunidades que viven en la Amazonía, como los primeros interlocutores de este Sínodo, es de vital importancia también para la Iglesia universal. Para ello necesitamos una mayor cercanía. Queremos saber ¿Cómo imaginan su “futuro sereno” y el ... more

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Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation

Douglas Nakashima, Igor Krupnik, Jennifer T. Rubis (eds.)

Cambridge; Paris: Cambridge University Press;UNESCO (2018), xx, 298 pp.

"This unique transdisciplinary publication is the result of collaboration between UNESCO’s Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, the United Nations University’s Traditional Knowledge Initiative, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and other organizations. Ch ... more

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Llegó aquí la palabra: La cosmovisión Maya, viva y difundida a través de los medios de comunicación comunitarios

Amalia Jiménez Galán, Sandoval, Ricardo, Carlos Humberto Chicol Muj et al.

Fundación Comunicándonos;Voces;AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (2016), 104 pp.

"[...] en el 2010 comenzamos un proceso inolvidable. Esta publicación es fruto del proceso de inter-aprendizaje que comunicadoras y comunicadores de la Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias en Guatemala sostuvimos durante más de dos años con ajq’ijab’ (esto es, contadores del tiempo, gu� ... more

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Las bibliotecas en las comunidades indígenas

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2011), 59 pp.

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Intellectual Property and Human Development: Current Trends and Future Scenarios

Tzen Wong, Graham Dutfield (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press;Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors (2011), 397 pp.

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Introducing Copyright: A Plain Language Guide to Copyright in the 21st Century

Julien Hofman

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), xiii, 152 pp.

"The authors of all kinds of works, from the humble email to blockbuster films, rely on copyright to protect what they produce. But authors and those who use their work are often unclear about what copyright allows and what it prohibits. This book was written for those who want to learn about copyri ... more

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Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today

Peter Bates, Moe Chiba, Sabine Kube, Douglas Nakashima (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO (2009), 127 pp.

"The book is organised into three sections. The first addresses the link between indigenous knowledge and indigenous language, and explores the opportunities this interconnection provides for understanding and countering declines in both. The second section examines how the loss of indigenous knowle ... more

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Water and Indigenous Peoples

Rutgerd Boelens, Moe Chiba, Douglas Nakashima, Vanessa Retana (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO;Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) (2006), 179 pp.

"Indigenous peoples from all corners of the globe continue to struggle for acknowledgement and recognition of their unique visions of water, both at home and in national, regional and international forums. But almost without exception, their voices remain obscured by a mainstream discourse rooted in ... more

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People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management
Inspiring Practice

Guy Bessette (ed.)

London; Ottawa: Earthscan;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 313 pp.

"This book presents conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of communication in order to facilitate participation among stakeholders in natural resource management (NRM) initiatives. It also presents a collection of chapters that focus on participatory development communication and N ... RM, particularly in Asia and Africa. There are many approaches and practices in development communication, and most of them have been implemented in the field of environment and natural resource management. But, even when considering participatory approaches in NRM, communication is often limited to information dissemination activities that mainly use printed materials, radio programmes and educational videos to send messages, explain technologies or illustrate activities. These approaches, with their strengths and weaknesses, have been well documented. Participatory development communication takes another perspective. This form of communication facilitates participation in a development initiative identified and selected by a community, with or without the external assistance of other stakeholders. The terminology has been used in the past by a number of scholars to stress the participatory approach of communication in contrast with its more traditional diffusion approach. Others refer to similar approaches as participatory communication for development, participatory communication or communication for social change. In this publication, participatory development communication is considered to be a planned activity that is based on participatory processes and on media and interpersonal communication. This communication facilitates dialogue among different stakeholders around a common development problem or goal. The objective is to develop and implement a set of activities that contribute to a solution to the problem or the realization of a goal, and which support and accompany this initiative. This kind of communication requires moving from a focus on information and persuasion to facilitating exchanges between different stakeholders to address a common problem, to develop a concrete initiative for experimenting with possible solutions, and to identify the partnerships, knowledge and materials needed to support these solutions." (Preface) more

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ICT4D Connecting People for a Better World: Lessons, Innovations and Perspectives of Information and Communication Technologies in Development

Gerolf Weigel, Daniele Waldburger (eds.)

Berne: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC);Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) (2004), 287 pp.

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Poor People's Knowledge: Promoting Intellectual Property in Developing Countries

J. Michael Finger, Philip Schule (eds.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (2004), x, 250 pp.

People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management Inspiring Practice

People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management
Inspiring Practice