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Discursive Epistemologies by, for and About the De-Colonizing Project

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Although colonialism is generally thought of to be buried in the past, similar to the mainstream pop-culture mantra that we are now in a post-racial society because of the election of an African-American president in the US, it is clear that our realities, experiences and minds have been shaped by the platform of centuries of colonial exploitation and degradation

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Carr, P.R., Thésée, G. (2012). Discursive Epistemologies by, for and About the De-Colonizing Project. In: Abdi, A.A. (eds) Decolonizing Philosophies of Education. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-687-8_2

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