Decolonizing decolonization projects: neoliberalism, Indigenous services, and Indigenous strategic change in Taiwan and Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article argues that though decolonization is an ongoing struggle globally, neoliberalism blunts the impacts of state and institutional decolonization projects. Drawing on the literature and three examples, the article explores the unintended consequences of decolonizing efforts in human services and universities, specifically how they reinforce neoliberalism and perpetuate aspects of ongoing colonialism. The analysis shows that adherence to managerial metrics and logics erases important aspects of decolonization such as Indigenous self-determination, sovereignty, and cultural safety. The article identifies five elements that should be present if decolonization is to be advanced decisively and shows that in each example, neoliberalism is foregrounded rather than the sovereignty of Indigenous people. We conclude that the examples analysed are a form of neoliberal colonialism rather than colonialism’s undoing.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it