scholarly journals Decolonizing Research Paradigms in the Context of Settler Colonialism: An Unsettling, Mutual, and Collaborative Effort

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 160940691882157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirjam B. E. Held
Keyword(s):  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Indigenous Methodologies ◽  
Indigenous Paradigm ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Decolonizing Research

All research is guided by a set of philosophical underpinnings. Indigenous methodologies are in line with an Indigenous paradigm, while critical and liberatory methodologies fit with the transformative paradigm. Yet Indigenous and transformative methodologies share an emancipatory and critical stance and thus are increasingly used in tandem by both Western and Indigenous scholars in an attempt to decolonize methodologies, research, and the academy as a whole. However, these multiparadigmatic spaces only superficially support decolonization which, in the Canadian context of settler colonialism, is a radical and unsettling prospect that is about land, resources, and sovereignty. Applying this definition of decolonization to the decolonization of research paradigms, this article suggests that such paradigms must be developed, from scratch, conjointly between Indigenous and Western researchers.

scholarly journals Productive soils as basis for effective agricultural land use in Carpathian region of Ukraine

2013 ◽  
pp. 257-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zinovii Pankiv
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Carpathian Region ◽  
Definition Of

The structure of soils in Carpathian region of Ukraine, which is involved for agricultural land use, including for arable land, has been analyzed. The basic steps to increase the area of arable land have been described. Integrated approach with using spatial, legal, environmental, and economic performance has been proposed for definition of the efficiency of agricultural land use. The appellation “soil use” for characteristic the type using of agricultural land resources has been proposed. Key words: productive soils, land use, the Carpathian region of Ukraine, soil use

scholarly journals Analysis of the current state of regulatory provision of formation and establishment between united territorial communities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Avramchuk ◽  
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Y. Loshakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Community Integration ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Resource Potential ◽  
Management Reform ◽  
Current State ◽  
Quality Study ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Voluntary Community ◽  
Specific Definition

In the current conditions of decentralization and voluntary community integration, there is a need for a comprehensive, up-to-date, and high-quality study of their resource potential, distribution, and prospects for future community development. The most pressing issue for communities is the issue of the specific definition of their boundaries, planning, use, and protection of land, especially with regard to the authority to dispose of land resources outside the settlement. The article analyzes the constitutional basis of the administrative-territorial system and local self-government in Ukraine, the basic legislation, and the peculiarities of its application in the conditions of change. It is established that in the absence of the adoption of relevant laws, changes to existing ones, the incompleteness of implementation of measures on decentralization of power, untimely resolution of problems arising in the process of implementation of land management reform within the jurisdiction of local councils, the process of reforming local self-government is hampered.

Jurisdiction and Settler Colonialism: Where Do Laws Meet?

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (02) ◽  
pp. 145-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiri Pasternak
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Colonial Settlement

Abstract To engage in the question of what it means to decolonize law, we must ask by what authority a law has the authority to be invoked and to govern. In this paper, I describe the conditions necessary for the exercise of Canadian law as being the work of jurisdiction, and I call into question Canada’s legality and legitimacy in making jurisdictional claims. Decolonizing law means deconstructing the state’s grounds to inaugurate law on lands acquired through colonial settlement. By critically examining law’s geography and scope I call into question the modern definition of territory itself. Further, I draw attention to jurisdiction as a conceptual framework for understanding the specificities of settler colonialism; illustrate jurisdiction as a historical concept, distinct from territory and sovereignty; and show some of the ways in which jurisdiction is enacted to govern across multiple scales and issues.

Advancing empirical resilience research

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffael Kalisch ◽  
Marianne B. Müller ◽  
Oliver Tüscher
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Major Point ◽  
Target Article ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractWe are delighted by the broad, intense, and fruitful discussion in reaction to our target article. A major point we take from the many comments is a prevailing feeling in the research community that we need significantly and urgently to advance resilience research, both by sharpening concepts and theories and by conducting empirical studies at a much larger scale and with a much more extended and sophisticated methodological arsenal than is the case currently. This advancement can be achieved only in a concerted international collaborative effort. In our response, we try to argue that an explicitly atheoretical, purely observational definition of resilience and a transdiagnostic, quantitative study framework can provide a suitable basis for empirically testing different competing resilience theories (sects. R1, R2, R6, R7). We are confident that it should be possible to unite resilience researchers from different schools, including from sociology and social psychology, behind such a pragmatic and theoretically neutral research strategy. In sections R3 to R5, we further specify and explain the positive appraisal style theory of resilience (PASTOR). We defend PASTOR as a comparatively parsimonious and translational theory that makes sufficiently concrete predictions to be evaluated empirically.

scholarly journals Performance management of agricultural entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Vol 282 ◽  
pp. 01006
Author(s):  
B.A. Voronin ◽  
I.P. Chupina ◽  
Ya.V. Voronina ◽  
N.A. Potekhin ◽  
V.N. Potekhin
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Technological Support ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
Agricultural Plants ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Agricultural Entrepreneurship

In the field of economics, the concept of “efficiency is traditionally interpreted as the ratio of the volume of products produced and the costs incurred for obtaining these products. This definition of efficiency is similar to the concept of profitability of production, although in practice in agriculture the concept of “efficiency” is a more complex category, since it requires the integration of many factors in order to obtain positive results in production. Agrarian entrepreneurs must effectively and efficiently use land resources as the main means of production. In the same row there are biological resources - agricultural plants, farm animals, poultry and other biological objects. In modern conditions, agricultural entrepreneurship cannot be carried out without new technology, equipment and other means of mechanization and intellectualization of agricultural activities. To obtain the results of effective management, scientific and technological support of entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector will be required. As can be seen from the above factors, the concept of “efficiency” in the agrarian economy includes in its definition a set of relations, the implementation of which is necessary for the functioning of production in market conditions.

scholarly journals What the Grandfathers Taught Me: Lessons for an Indian Country Researcher

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Masta
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Indian Country ◽  
The Social ◽  
Native Populations ◽  
Indigenous Methodologies ◽  
Decolonizing Research

Native scholars face several challenges when they enter research spaces. These challenges include difficulty in engaging with the broader research community because of the social and educational urgency of tribal-focused research, discouragement from using Indigenous methodologies because they are not “widely recognized,” and resisting positivist and postpositivist methodologies that marginalize Native populations. Using an autoethnographic approach, I make meaning of how the Seven Grandfathers lessons from my childhood inform my research practice. I also discuss how these lessons give me the tools to address the challenges I experience as a Native scholar and provide a holistic approach to the process of decolonizing research.

Domestic Colonies in Canada: Rethinking the Definition of Colony

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-519
Author(s):  
Barbara Arneil
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Mentally Disabled ◽  
Uncultivated Soil ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractWhat is a colony? In this article, I reconsider the meaning of colony in light of the existence of domestic colonies in Canada around the turn of the twentieth century. The two case studies examined are farm colonies for the mentally disabled and ill in Ontario and British Columbia and utopian colonies for Doukhobors in Saskatchewan. I show how both kinds of colonies are characterized by the same three principles found in Lockean settler colonialism: segregation, agrarian labour on uncultivated soil and improvement/cultivation of people and land. Defining “colony” in this way is theoretically interesting as it is different from the definition found in most dictionaries and post-colonial scholarship. There is also an inherent contradiction within domestic colonies as they both support state power over indigenous peoples, Doukhobors and the mentally ill and disabled but also challenge the principles of domination, individualism, private property and sovereignty upon which the Canadian settler state was founded.

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