Decolonizing Development Studies: Pedagogic Reflections

Decolonizing Bioethics in Africa

The global spread of bioethics from its North-American and European provenance to non-Western societies is currently raising some concerns. Part of the concern has to do with whether or not the exportation of bioethics in its full Western sense to developing non-Western states is an instance of ethical imperialism or bioethical neocolonialism. This paper attempts an exploration of this debate i...

Reflections on Comparative Āgama Studies

The present paper offers a few methodological reflections on comparative studies between the discourses found in the Chinese Āgamas and their parallels in Pāli, Sanskrit and Tibetan. The issues taken up are: the impact of oral transmission on this material; the notion of a parallel and difficulties in applying this notion; the advantage of approaching the category of a parallel with the help of...

Content Creation and Pedagogic Strategies for Skill Development MOOC

Skill development is being promoted throughout the country, as a channel to create employable resource. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) can provide a platform to enable such skill development programs at scale. The IITBombayX course, Basic 3D animation using Blender (SKANI101x), was the first of its kind offering of a Skill Development MOOC (sdMOOC) for the Indian learners. Over its two off...

Decolonizing German theory: an introduction

This special issue is concerned with German theory, which is to say, theory generated in German cultural and linguistic spaces, in the territories claimed by the various German states over time, and among German-speaking emigrants and refugees. ‘Theory’ is defined here to encompass the space shared by philosophy, social theory, and cultural theory*/the theory-space that is most relevant for the...

Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion