Robert L. Tignor's scientific contributions

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... What are the legacies of decolonisation as moment, and as process? The use of binary concepts such as colonial/post-colonial or resistance/collaboration has been challenged by field research over the past decades (Clancy-Smith 1994, Scott 1985. Similarly, as Pascal Bianchini (2004) points out, the simplistic and misleading dichotomy often drawn between "traditional" and "modern" schooling has obscured the ways these education systems have been appropriated by local actors, and instead reifies traditional education as "natural" and unchanging. ...