Special issue: Postcolonial critique of knowledge relations in higher education /library/oar/handle/123456789/38995 2025-12-26T15:39:16Z 2025-12-26T15:39:16Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/57646 2020-06-14T05:18:35Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Postcolonial Directions in Education : volume 7 : issue 1 Editors: Hickling Hudson, Anne; Mayo, Peter; Raykov, Milosh; Moller Madsen, Lene; Mahlck, Paula Abstract: Table of contents: 1/ MOLLER MADSEN, L., & MAHLCK, P. - Postcolonial critique of knowledge relations in higher education -- 2/ MAHLCK, P. - Racism, precariousness and resistance : development-aid-funded PhD training in Sweden -- 3/ SILFVER, A. L. - Supervision in the contact zone revisited : critical reflections on supervisory practices through the lenses of time, place, and knowledge -- 4/ MOLLER MADSEN, L. - Producing supervisors in the global south : reflections on academic training abroad -- 5/ ZINK, E. - Ugandan scientists, Scandinavian collaborations, and the cultural economy of science -- 6/ JORDAN, S. - Kapoor, D (ed.). Against colonization and rural dispossession : local resistance in South and east Asia, the Pacific and Africa [book review].

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Title: Kapoor, D (ed.). Against colonization and rural dispossession : local resistance in South and east Asia, the Pacific and Africa [book review] Abstract: Title reviewed: Kapoor, D (ed.) Against colonization and rural dispossession: Local resistance in South and east Asia, the Pacific and Africa. Zed Books, 368 pages, ISBN Paperback: 9781783609437, eBook ePub: 9781783609451, eBook Kindle: 9781783609475 Library Edition: 9781783609444. -- This book collection is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the impact of rural dispossession and exploitation of indigenous populations, farm workers and landless peasants in the Global South.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Zink, Eren /library/oar/handle/123456789/39070 2019-01-29T02:42:35Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Ugandan scientists, Scandinavian collaborations, and the cultural economy of science Authors: Zink, Eren Abstract: Money and cultural economies of science are imbued with multiple meanings for actors involved in international scientific research and research training collaborations in Uganda. This article uses economic anthropology to explore some of the tensions and misunderstandings that arise from Ugandan- Scandinavian partnerships in science. Using ethnographic examples drawn from the experiences of Ugandan scientists and their Scandinavian counterparts, the article describes how the positions and actions of Ugandan scientists produce different, and at times contradictory meanings, for themselves, their kin, local colleagues, and Scandinavian counterparts. Compassion for a grieving sibling, a gift to a charity fundraiser, the extraction of personal savings from an international research project, and the strategic construction of a countryside home are just a few examples of actions and relations that shape actors’ understandings of Ugandan-Scandinavian scientific collaborations. The article finds that pre-existing tensions in scientific collaborations resulting from dependency upon foreign donors for research and research training funding are further exacerbated by foreign actors’ partial understandings of the meanings and moralities of scientific work in Uganda. The article concludes that greater recognition of the patterns of cultural economy that make money and labor in science meaningful are necessary for mitigating mistrust and misunderstanding across South-North scientific collaborations.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Moller Madsen, Lene /library/oar/handle/123456789/39069 2019-01-29T02:42:29Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Producing supervisors in the global south : reflections on academic training abroad Authors: Moller Madsen, Lene Abstract: In Ghana, a considerable proportion of academics have experiences of PhD training in the global north. This is often the result of higher educational capacity-building projects, which fund students’ scholarships as either a full stay or a number of stays in the funding country. Empirically, the article draws on seven narratives of academics with experiences of PhD training abroad now supervising at Universities in Ghana. Based on postcolonial perspectives on supervision, I explore how and in what forms experiences of academic training in the global north are present in the supervisors’ narratives of their supervision in the global south and what meaning and implications their experiences with supervision in the global north have for their current supervision practice. The article shows in what ways the academic practices of Ghanaian academics’ are influenced and related to their experiences abroad and mobility between the global north and global south. The article concludes that educational practice operates beyond the immediate supervision context, both in terms of supervision practice and in the wider cultural setting of supervision. As such, it adds to our knowledge of supervision in the postcolonial contact zone.

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