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Knowledge Cultures

Subject Areas: History; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Publisher: Addleton Academic Publishers - Addleton Academic Publishers
ISSN: 2327-5731
SJR: 12

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Critical Theory in the Glocal South: Introduction

Kirsten Locke

2022 Knowledge Cultures

The call for papers for this special issue of Knowledge Cultures invited critical and critical-creative responses to the question of what it is to do critical theory in the Glocal South. It proposed that doing critical theory ‘down here’ entails at least two paradoxes. Firstly, critical theory...
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The Settler Baggage of Abstraction

Simon Barber

2022 Knowledge Cultures

In this article, I describe one of the basal motifs of the Pākehā world in terms of its difference from the patternings of te Ao Māori. The motif is both a patterning traced by a mode of life and an epistemological diagram of the structures of thought that are coconstituted in that pattern. I...
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Mānava ‘i he Loto Manava: Creatively Critical Tongan Sense-Making in the Glocal South

Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck

2022 Knowledge Cultures

Critical theory and theorising bring social contexts into closer observation and interrogation. Yet, our social worlds and societies are continuously evolving, so how relevant and appropriate are the critical theories developed in the Glocal South, given the dynamic and fluid contextual realities...
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Finding the Words: Using Critical Theory to Speak Back to Our Institutions

Sereana Naepi

2022 Knowledge Cultures

Working as a Pacific critical university scholar in Aotearoa New Zealand necessitates the use of critical theory. Often our first encounter with critical theory involves furious nodding and highlighting as we find texts that speak to our own experiences of the world. We find ourselves revisiting...
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Black Indigeneity and Oceanic Critical Theory

Nathan Rew

2022 Knowledge Cultures

In this article, I interweave my experiences as a Papua New Guinean activist and student of critical theory in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland, New Zealand) to explore the relationship and role of critical theory in Oceania today. In this, though it is perhaps problematic, I use critical theory as a...
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A Manifesto of Shambolic Form: Approaching Creative- Critical Practice at the Intersection Where Artistic Research, the Global South and Critical Theory Coalesce

alys longley

2022 Knowledge Cultures

alys longley (Aotearoa/New Zealand) and Francisco González Castro (Chile) went to begin an article ‘discussing critical theory in a series of specific artworks, seeing critical theory as both a colonial enterprise and a tool for resistance to extractive, neoliberal power plays.’ They began by...
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Mapping the Aesthetic Dimensions of Power: Ethically Wayfinding across Borders

alys longley

2022 Knowledge Cultures

Indigenous and Southern experiences of colonial spatial, extractivist activity are contextually important for critical geographical and geospatial studies concerned with the effects of power and control systems on communities. Critical theory is used across corporeal and cognitive modalities in...
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Critical Theory and Academia: Ontological Im/possibilities for Upholding Plural Worlds

Alejandra Jaramillo-Aristizabal

2022 Knowledge Cultures

In this paper, I address the paradoxes that accompany the adoption and expansion of critical theory (CT) in Latin America, paying attention to the dis/continuities between Euro-American and Latin American critical theorising as well as what remains common to both. The first of these paradoxes is...
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De/Colonisation and the Un/Doing of Critical Theory

Elba Ramirez

2022 Knowledge Cultures

This paper explores the colonialities of trans/gender and the Canary Islands to interrogate the in/adequacy of critical theory as a tool applied to Global South issues. In both cases, critical theory is found to be lacking due to its compulsion to predetermine and essentialise relations, which...

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