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Decolonising the future academy in Africa and beyond: Institutional development and collaboration
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (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
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Dekolonisation: Das Ende der Imperien
München: C.H.Beck, 2., vollst. überarb. und aktualisierte Aufl. (2025), 144 pp.
"Kaum ein Vorgang veränderte die Welt im 20. Jahrhundert so sehr wie das Ende kolonialer Herrschaft in Asien und Afrika. In systematischen und chronologischen Kapiteln beschreibt das Buch diesen Prozess mit seinen weiten Ausläufern im gesamten Jahrhundert und bietet lokale, imperiale und globale E
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Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance
Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (2025), xxix, 282 pp.
In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - play an increasingly important role. With forty percent of the world's population and twenty-five percent of global GDP, these nat
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The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 13 pp.
"Blockchain originated from the aspiration for decentralization, and in Western countries, its association with freedom from governmental and corporate dominance remains unwavering. However, in China–where blockchain has taken an intriguing foothold–the socio-technical imaginaries of blockchain
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp
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Challenging Global Development: Towards Decoloniality and Justice
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
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Towards a circular theory of communication: The case of the Wayusa ritual of the traditional Kichwa people of Sarayaku
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 8, issue 1 (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
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Decolonising Digital Media and Indigenisation of Participatory Epistemologies: Languages of the Global South
Oxford: Routledge (2024), xvi, 210 pp.
"The book provides valuable insights on decolonising the digital media landscape and the indigenisation of participatory epistemologies to continue the legacies of indigenous languages in the global South. It is one of its kind as it climaxes that the construction phase of self-determining and redef
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"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
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Interactive Radio Shows and the Role of New Information Brokers in the Republic of Benin
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 14, issue 2 (2024), 21 pp.
"This study investigates interactive forms of public communication in the Republic of Benin (West Africa) with a specific focus on the emergence of new media actors. Benin’s media landscape features a variety of media formats, which are constantly incorporating interactive elements. These developm
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Conflict journalism, coloniality and election violence in Zimbabwe: The case for Ubuntu ethics
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 16, issue 3 (2024), pp. 303-320
"Drawing insights from decolonial theory and Ubuntu ethics, this article examines coloniality practices embedded in conflict journalism in Zimbabwe. It uses election violence reporting between 2000 and 2013 as a lens for gaining insights into how reporting conflicts perpetuates coloniality. How colo
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“Polite Watchdog”: Kompas and Watchdog Journalism in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 3 (2024), pp. 628-645
"Many studies have argued that watchdog journalism cannot flourish under authoritarianism. However, the effect of the democratization of previously authoritarian regimes on watchdog journalism is still poorly understood. This article aims to fill this knowledge gap by using Kompas, Indonesia’s old
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Digital Coloniality: An Ubuntu perspective
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
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Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 187 pp.
"This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and global
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Imagining AI
Deep Insights
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023), xvii, 423 pp.
"Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines is the first volume showcasing research into how different cultures around the globe envision life with artificial intelligence. AI is now a global phenomenon. Yet Hollywood narratives dominate perceptions of AI in the English-speaking West and
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Fotogeschichten und Geschichtsbilder: Aneignung und Umdeutung historischer Fotografien in Tansania
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
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Pensares y haceres para una comunicación decolonial
Quito: CIESPAL (2023), 231 pp.
"Este trabajo busca introducir las discusiones en torno a la Comunicación y a la Decolonialidad desarrolladas en el Grupo Comunicación-Decolonialidad durante las últimas tres ediciones de los congresos bienales de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC) y que
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A Decolonial Approach to Open-Access Repositories: How to Set Up a Subject Repository for Documents on International Cultural Relations
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
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Media and Communication Theory in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxii, 340 pp.
"This contributed volume explores theories of media and communication and focuses on providing African perspectives on global conversations. Using broad cases relating to media and communication theories, this book explores socio-cultural issues affecting most modern African societies, providing a c
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Papa Francisco e o pensamento decolonial: Uma voz do Sul do mundo
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
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