PORTFOLIO: Academics as Allies and Accomplices: Practices for Decolonized Solidarity

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  • Theresa Southam Selkirk College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2021.366

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Author Biography

Theresa Southam, Selkirk College

Chair, Teaching and Learning Institute

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2021-11-11

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Vol. 42 No. 2 (2021)

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