{"id":97335,"date":"2024-05-17T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/sps\/?p=97335"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T16:05:49","slug":"97335","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/sps\/blog\/2024\/05\/97335\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtheyn publishes on decolonization theory and efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A newly published journal article authored by School of Public Service Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/sps\/chris-courtheyn\/\">Christopher Courtheyn<\/a>\u00a0and co-author Ahsan Kamal analyzes how calls for \u201cdecolonizing\u201d theory and methods have become prominent at academic institutions and beyond. Decolonization refers to cultural, economic and psychological freedom for Indigenous peoples. As part of decolonization theory, such peoples would gain the right to make decisions about their cultures, land and other systems without the influence of their colonizers.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have pointed out that projects surrounding the idea of decolonizing are primarily located in the \u201cglobal north\u201d and distanced from actual political struggles. The global north is defined as containing groups of people who historically identify with capitalist and colonial systems, as well as those who may be in positions of privilege and power.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1070111\" class=\"wp-image wp-image--caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1070111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1070111 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/sps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2024\/07\/Figure_Researchers-and-Activists-March-to-Confront-Paramilitary-Death-Squad-in-Colombia-Christopher-Courtheyn-500x375-1.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people hike through a jungle trail\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1070111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers and Activists March to Confront Paramilitary Death Squad in Colombia \u2013 Christopher Courtheyn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The article reviews three historical efforts towards decolonization: resistance to imperialism (the extension of a country\u2019s power, usually through military force), \u201cglobal south\u201d scholars gaining prominence and the intersections between academics and activists.<\/p>\n<p>The paper explains how decolonial and postcolonial studies created a powerful \u201csouthern theory\u201d that helps explain global inequities and potential solutions, but that these fields\u2019 primary impacts are at universities in the global north. This furthers the separation of the global north from the global south, academia from activism, and theory from practice, the authors said. They reiterate calls of fellow scholars who insist that research be combined with public and community collaborations that challenge violence against peoples and environments of the world.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.polgeo.2023.103029\">Read the full journal article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly published journal article authored by School of Public Service Professor\u00a0Christopher Courtheyn\u00a0and co-author Ahsan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2441,"featured_media":97336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[3844],"class_list":["post-97335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sps-news","tag-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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