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I approach Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Naquib al-Attas here in a modest and personal way: As intellectual teachers whose work has shaped how I think about decolonisation, language, and being. This modest…
What does anthropology, burdened by its own colonial history and currently undergoing its own decolonisation, have to offer to decolonial scholarship? It is irrefutable that anthropology, for much of its history, was…
When I first left my family home, my father offered me a sentence that travelled with me more faithfully than any suitcase: Ya gharīb kūn adīb - ‘O stranger, be adīb.’ I…
The indeterminate place of the borderzone holds a radical potential to emphasise subaltern (women’s) resistances. Chicana thinkers such as Gloria Anzaldúa (1987) and José David Saldívar (1997) define the borderzone as an…
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Reading Decoloniality is an inter-institutional research hub with an open-source publication (ISSN 2977-8573), reading group and residencies that produce and disseminate international and interdisciplinary scholarship for liberation.
We have an open membership. Members collectively develop quarterly programmes of speakers who write for our publication. We began as a working group at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick (UK) and are 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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