Date/Time: Wednesday 25th April 2018, 1:00-2:30pm

Venue: Percy Building G.09

The idea of the Workshops is to have a more interactive session to which everyone contributes, rather than a session led by one speaker. The 'Decolonising methodologies' workshop will be facilitated by Julie Cupples from the University of Edinburgh.

This workshop focuses on how we might unsettle Eurocentrism in the westernized university and in our research projects and how we might begin to approach our work with a decolonial focus. It will draw on methodological strategies suggested by a number of decolonial scholars. 

Set reading

Grosfoguel R (2013) The structure of knowledge in westernized universities: Epistemic racism/sexism and the four genocides/epistemicides of the long 16th century. Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge 11(1): 73-90

Additional optional reading

De Sousa Santos B (2007) Beyond abyssal thinking. From global lines to ecologies of knowledges. Review (Fernando Braudel) 30(1): 45-89.(also available here https://www.eurozine.com/beyond-abyssal-thinking/)

Johnson J T, Cant G, Howitt R and Peters E (2007) Creating anticolonial geographies: Embracing Indigenous knowledges and rights. Geographical Research 45: 117–20.

Kuokkanen R (2007) Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Lugones M (2010) Toward a decolonial feminism. Hypatia 25(4): 742-759

Smith L T (2012) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, 2nd ed. London: Zed Books.

Shaw W S, Herman, R.D.K. and Dobbs, G.R., (2006) Encountering Indigeneity: re-imaging and decolonizing geography. Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography 88: 267–276.

Special issue of Cultural Studies (2007) on the decolonial option