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Break local record, make semis – Giga Mail

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Break local record, make semis – Giga Mail

Lauren Hoffman is stoked about her Olympic qualification. —LAUREN HOFFMAN/ FACEBOOK Lauren Hoffman is progressing in every race at a pace she finds encouraging. Just this year alone, the 25-year-old former Duke University standout wiped out four Philippine records in the women’s 400-meter and 100-m hurdles plus the indoor 400 m and 600 m in … Read more

Rethinking ‘Local Knowledge’, Opacity and Coloniality Giga Mail

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Rethinking ‘Local Knowledge’, Opacity and Coloniality Giga Mail

Resilience is a key buzzword in international development programmes. Resilience is often seen as ‘a new paradigm for development’, one that follows a decolonial impulse pushing local knowledge to the fore to enable better solutions to environmental problems. International policy programmes increasingly believe that goals can be better achieved through integrating traditional, local or Indigenous … Read more