{"id":2060,"date":"2012-10-31T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2012-10-31T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:26:04","slug":"decolonisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/2012\/10\/31\/decolonisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weblog 3.1<\/p>\n<p>Like Janet B I discovered the online journal <a href=\"http:\/\/decolonization.org\/index.php\/des\/issue\/view\/1234\/showToc\">Decolonisation: Indigeneity, Education and Society<\/a> offers interesting reading.<\/p>\n<p>The editorial by Sium, Desai and Ritskes (2012) <a href=\"http:\/\/decolonization.org\/index.php\/des\/article\/view\/18638\/15564http:\/\/\">Towards the \u2018tangible unknown\u2019: Decolonization and the Indigenous future<\/a> attempts to sum up the articles published in the journal and aims to examine the \u201ccontradictions, contestations and possible pathways to decolonisation\u201d. (p 1)<\/p>\n<p>They comment that there are many visions and definitions of decolonisation, but that it must include resistance to colonial relations of power and must result in \u201creimaging and rearticulating power, change and knowledge\u201d. They argue that decolonisation can\u2019t happen without recognition of primacy of land and indigenous sovereignty of the land.<\/p>\n<p>They argue we cannot be spectators (settlers or Indigenous) and decolonisation must find ways to combine both theory and action (there needs to be theory to inform action and action to inform theory) with daily acts of resistance. It is an interesting read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weblog 3.1 Like Janet B I discovered the online journal Decolonisation: Indigeneity, Education and Society offers interesting reading. The editorial by Sium, Desai and Ritskes (2012) Towards the \u2018tangible unknown\u2019: Decolonization and the Indigenous future attempts to sum up the articles published in the journal and aims to examine the \u201ccontradictions, contestations and possible pathways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[6365],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-4","tag-decolonization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}