Post Grid – Style 9

Why Decolonial Studies differs from Postcolonial Studies: Ramón Grosfoguel on Modernity, Capitalism, and Race

Within this reading group led by Ramón Grosfoguel, he will articulate a decolonial approach to modernity in the face of a Eurocentric approach. He will define modernity and discuss its relationship to…

Bates’ ‘Nothing rhymes with Ngapartji’

Today we launch the next contribution to our series of feature length films, documentaries and performances practising decoloniality, released on a quarterly basis. Navigate through my video introduction and film excerpt, clicking…

Rehoming the home

Where is home? Is it the motherland, the left-behind world of birthplace and ancestry, or is it the strange but fresh landscape of possibility and promise? Which language articulates the private self, which…

Critiques of decoloniality

Our objective for this session is to delve into critiques of decoloniality. For Tuck and Yang, decolonisation should not be a metaphor (2012). Their treatise is persuasive considering that academics are eager,…
Dreaming of Words by Nandan

Nandan’s ‘Dreaming of Words’

This is the first in our series of feature length films, documentaries and performances practising decoloniality, released on a quarterly basis. I have curated these artistic works based on the quality and…

Sanjay Sharma’s ‘Multicultural encounters’

The third chapter of Sanjay Sharma’s Multicultural Encounters (2006), ‘Teaching Difference: Representations and Rhizomes’, proposes media-based contemporary culture as pedagogical practices for students to discursively shape and make their everyday identities. By analysing…