Local children learning about ancient belongings at a cultural event in the Orange Walk District.
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What’s happening in Belize is a work in progress. Its citizens pursue diverse self-determined actions along with repatriation as steps toward generational healing and redress.
Humans are shaping the environment and geology of the planet for the first time in history.
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Although alternative terms have been suggested, the Anthropocene captures the magnitude of the crisis we face.
The grand opening of the redeveloped Merchants Corner in Winnipeg’s North End in April 2018.
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For University of Winnipeg’s inner-city studies department, remote learning has disrupted the dialogue that is critical for moving from truth toward reconciliation and action.
A temporary memorial for Canada’s residential schools is blessed by Indigenous elders in a pipe ceremony in Calgary in August 2021.
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Here’s what the education system needs to do to help teachers address, repair and heal education towards and beyond reconciliation.
A young USA fan blows a vuvuzela at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa match between USA and Ghana.
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Sport turned out to be an ideal lens to bridge the geographic and cultural challenges American university students face in empathising with African experiences.
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks with members of the local indigenous community during a campaign stop in Ladysmith, B.C.
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This federal election, think about which parties are proposing to give power to Indigenous Peoples and their governments.
The internet has the potential to reproduce as well as to change people’s understanding of the world.
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There is no linear approach to the process of decolonisation. But any attempt must start with looking at how the internet spreads knowledge and ideas about Africa and Africans.
An 1880s illustration of the village at Parihaka, sitting beneath Mt Taranaki.
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This year marks 140 years since Parihaka pā was sacked. As He Puapua reignites the debate about the impacts of colonisation, how do the descendants of early European settlers respond?
Consulting with the communities that have suffered the most harm from past acts of mass violence is a key part of a successful reparations process.
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From Germany to Georgetown, the Global North has a lot to learn about reckoning successfully with past human rights wrongs.
The are massive numbers of bird species named after European surnames.
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Ecology is dominated by colonial notions and knowledge that doesn’t consider local knowledge. This needs to change.
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The student authors wrote about their lives during lockdown, and their stories were published in a book that now informs their university’s syllabus.
The mortal remains of some of the victims of German atrocities in Namibia that Germany handed over in 2018.
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German’s commitment of €1.1bn for development projects in Namibia over 30 years is too cheap a price to pay for remorse.
Modern secession claims find their roots in the Trusteeship System of the UN.
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Colonial powers framed secessionism as a threat to state-building and not as an expression of self-determination
Firefighters trying to extinguish a fire in the Jagger Library, at the University of Cape Town.
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Losing archives has significant implications in a country like South Africa with a fraught and contested history because voices from the past, which may carry alternative histories, are lost.
Supporters of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs who oppose the Coastal GasLink pipeline set up a support station at kilometre 39, just outside of Gidimt'en checkpoint near Houston B.C., on January 8, 2020. The Wet'suwet'en peoples are occupying their land and trying to prevent a pipeline from going through it.
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Indigenous land defenders: Don’t Call Me Resilient EP 6 transcript.
Supporters of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs perform a round dance at a blockade at a CN Rail line just west of Edmonton on Feb. 19, 2020.
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In this episode of our podcast, we take a look at Indigenous land rights and the people on the frontlines of these battles.
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The proposal that monuments must be preserved at any cost hinders rather than helps institutions handle the decolonisation of their collections.
Artificial identities created by colonialists must be deconstructed to attain unity.
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Nigerians, as well as other Africans, need to actively work to decolonise social arrangements created by the British.
Anonymous accounts of racism in gallery spaces criticise the industry for failing to tackle systemic discrimination.
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Anonymous accounts show how urgently contemporary galleries need to confront legacies of discrimination
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Symbolic gesture or assertion of state power? Declaring a climate ‘emergency’ walks a fine line between hopeful rhetoric and risk to democracy.