It is often easier to define and communicate the definition of a concept by what it is not. This is particularly the case for a concept that speaks to a potentiality, a…
Adrienne Rich in Burning paper instead of children once said 'This is the oppressor's language yet I need it to talk to you.' As a person descended from Indian migrant parents, one…
Architect Samia Henni's edited book Deserts are not Empty is part of a major research and exhibition project on colonial toxicities that uncovers the not-very-well-known story of France detonating atomic bombs in…
Aka Hansen’s film Qulleq shows how to light and tend a qulleq. In Kalaallisut, the word means ‘lamp’ or ‘above’, as Aka explained to me, but in this case it refers specifically…
Multilingual education is one way to transform the South African (SA) Education system from historical biases that have privileged white English and Afrikaans children. As a South African academic specialising in multilingual…
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``Postcolonialism uses assumptions that came out of European Enlightenment such as the notion of the subject-object dichotomy expressed as the self-other. These ideas can be traced to the poststructuralist projects of Derrida and Foucault.``
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We are an open source publication and reading group investigating decolonial texts across disciplines.
We have an open membership. Members collectively develop quarterly programmes of speakers who write for our publication. We are global and inter-institutional, beginning as a working group at the University of Warwick and now expanding throughout the world.
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Member locations, UK
Including: Dr Giulia Champion and Dr Berenike Jung, University of Southampton; Dr Nadeen Dakkak, University of Exeter; Dr Claire French, University of Birmingham
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Member locations, Canada
Including: Dr Sakiru Adebayo, University of British Columbia; Dr Rina Garcia Chua, Simon Fraser University
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Member locations, South Africa
Including: Asanda Ngoasheng
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Member locations, Singapore
Including: Dr Ann Ang, Nanyang Technological University
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Member locations, U.S.
Including: Dr Nasty Bahrawi, University of Washington
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Member locations, Netherlands
Including: Maria Jose Recalde-Vela, Tilburg Law School
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