Who We Are and From Where We Speak

Moya, Paula M. L.

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“…Decolonizing knowledge is not simply about de-Westernization or rejecting Western streams, nor is it about closing doors to European or other traditions' (Behari-Leaks 66, Moya 18 and Nakata 12). Similar proections were illuminated in the works of Moya (2011) andNakata (2007).…”

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confidence: 71%

Sexuality and hierarchical trajectories in Global South: A de-colonial reading of Sefi Atta's novel, A Bit of Difference in the exemplification of contemporary literature

Ogunyemi

2022

Heliyon

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confidence: 71%

Sexuality and hierarchical trajectories in Global South: A de-colonial reading of Sefi Atta's novel, A Bit of Difference in the exemplification of contemporary literature

Ogunyemi

2022

Heliyon

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“…This belief aligns with the thinking of Audre Lorde (51), who wrote: "There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives" (p. 138). We can view our lived experiences as knowledge (52)(53)(54). By being modern day griots, we -Queer, BIPOC must tell our unique stories, as well as share our collective experiences, while we constantly engage with, and survive structural and Racialized and marginalized individuals are not the only people that have the ability to create spaces that are affirming and inclusive.…”

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(Trans)forming fitness: Intersectionality as a framework for resistance and collective action

Bell¹,

Rahman²,

Rochon³

2023

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Fitness is a lifelong pursuit, yet many LGBTQ2S+ 1 individuals are averse to group fitness or experiences in big box gyms. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual fitness programs offered the potential to facilitate opportunities for the greater inclusion of such individuals and the chance to connect, collaborate and advocate for a change in who and what defines fitness. Justice Roe, owner of Fit4AllBodies, utilizes the term fitness industrial complex to provide a framework to discuss the problems of exclusion. His explanation supports research documenting that bodies that are not “the norm”, defined by ableism, classism, (hetero)patriarchy and racism, fueled by white supremacy, are oftentimes viewed as “less than” in the fitness and recreation world ( 1– 3). Applying an intersectional framework, this article explores the possibilities for transformative collective action in fitness communities that removes barriers and challenges the injustices that contribute to racialized LGBTQ2S+ individuals feeling unwelcome. With the need to shift to virtual training spaces as a result of a global pandemic, and the rise in the public discourse surrounding racial injustices both on and offline, a sense of belonging and community is important, especially among groups that often face exclusionary practices, such as racialized LGBTQ2S+ community members. These individuals are at greater risk of losing opportunities to access fitness programs that can provide immense health and psychological benefits. What could an intersectional perspective on resistance in sport look like? Using the example of LGBTQ2S+ access to online fitness spaces during the prolonged global COVID-19 pandemic starting in 2020, we suggest that explicit coaching education and intentional communities, centered around social justice, are needed to address the historical roots of systemic oppression, accessibility, and social constructs tied to fitness.

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“…The call for African-centredness, invoked by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, is not to be confused or conflated with notions of Africanisation, Africanacity or Afropolitanism, all aimed at nationalist, reductionist and even essentialised frames of identity and positionality of what it means to be African. We draw on Ngugi's metaphor of re-membering and re-centering who we are as Africans (Ngugi 1986) and from where we speak (Moya 2011) as decolonial gestures towards de-linking (Mignolo 2012) from traditional knowledge and supervision practices in doctoral education. These influences are a part of a Southern scholarship which challenges that African education systems should benchmark their practices on externally imported or imposed discourse that emanate from historical and continued colonial oppressive regimes.…”

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Transforming Postgraduate Education in Africa

Samuel

2023

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Alternation research groups have made decisive and far-sighted knowledge production contributions in the interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities arena for more than twenty-five years. From 2020, it adds the Alternation African Scholarship Book Series (AASBS) to its research outputs system. Via its incisive thematically-focused inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary, as well as digitally-informed, research approaches, the AASBS not only advances the frontiers of knowledge in Africa's institutions of Higher Learning in designated focus areas, but also critically generates scholarship of, by and with the people(s) of our continent. Historically the research draws on the rich traditions of interactive African intellectualisations, from its earliest civilisations, through struggles for liberation and freedom, to independence and growth. It opens up future epistemic opportunities through intellectual initiative and resourcefulness, while critically contributing to the international advancement of knowledge on all relevant levels. Contributing to research-led constructive, transformative and substantial discourse development in our programmes and disciplines, it also aims at impacting the wellbeing of our people foundationally and all-inclusively in the present. All forms of scientific and social challenge which Africa's societies and communities face, need to be problematised and researched in the Arts and Humanities, in the interest of cooperative and conscientious responsible knowledge generation and foundational conceptual and methodological research impacts. We serve the hopes and aspirations of the people of Africa.AASBS is committed to the highest levels of inclusive, factually correct and critical, sociallyresponsive and socially-accountable evidence-based research analyses and outputs. Each chapter is reviewed by at least two independent peer reviewers. Through its editing and peerreview system, each volume also builds research leadership, research expertise, and interactive research acumen, capacity and capabilities.

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Who We Are and From Where We Speak

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

Sexuality and hierarchical trajectories in Global South: A de-colonial reading of Sefi Atta's novel, A Bit of Difference in the exemplification of contemporary literature

Sexuality and hierarchical trajectories in Global South: A de-colonial reading of Sefi Atta's novel, A Bit of Difference in the exemplification of contemporary literature

(Trans)forming fitness: Intersectionality as a framework for resistance and collective action

Transforming Postgraduate Education in Africa

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