Reversing the colonial warp in education: a decolonial encounter with Muhammad Iqbal

Animal Bodies, Colonial Subjects: (Re)Locating Animality in Decolonial Thought

In this paper, I argue that animal domestication, speciesism, and other modern human-animal interactions in North America are possible because of and through the erasure of Indigenous bodies and the emptying of Indigenous lands for settler-colonial expansion. That is, we cannot address animal oppression or talk about animal liberation without naming and subsequently dismantling settler colonial...

Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Vermicelli, Vienna, and Ortner syndrome. A case report in correspondence.

r. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877 – 1938) was a poet-philosopher of the Indian Subcontinent, born at Sialkot in Punjab (now in Pakistan). He studied and practiced law at Lahore after completing his education at the Trinity College, Cambridge and got a doctorate in Philosophy from Munich in 1907. An intellectual of international standing, a well-known philosopher, advocate of Muslim intellectual renai...

Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality

Towards a decolonial computing

In recent years, computing and ICT have increasingly been subjected to interrogation from a range of critical perspectives. Enquiries have generally been informed by a commitment to one of three approaches – critical race theory, Marxist political-economy or, more recently, postcolonial theory. While each of these approaches has some merit in that it contributes toward the development of a “cri...

Rhinoplasty Education Using a Standardized Patient Encounter

BACKGROUND Comprehensive aesthetic surgery training continues to be a challenge for residency programs. Our residency program developed a rhinoplasty-based objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) based upon validated methods as part of the residency education curriculum. We report our experience with the rhinoplasty-based OSCE and offer guidance to its incorporation within residency pr...