#Decolonisation

Chisomo Kalinga, PhD

This tweet deserved to go viral. The gentrification of decolonisation was inevitable. Northern scholars, determined to secure funding from it, had to change the parameters to do so. To paraphrase

Bennie Kara FCCT 🌹

What if the student knows about Mozart.. and the composers of Carnatic music and Joseph Bologna and Florence Price and so many others? Arguing for diversity in the curriculum is

"Decolonising my syllabus" is to decolonisation what "reducing my carbon footprint" is to climate change - it's vital and ethical to take individual action, but it's not the main challenge

the problem I have with decolonisation is the way it’s taken up by some as though you can just refuse the Western and replace it with some authentic form of

acab|blm|☪️|🏳️‍🌈|⚧ امنه خان

this is just a random factoid: when I moved to the US, I tried to find information about the traditional owners of the land I would be living on and

Just finished facilitating a panel for #HCBerlin with these incredibly smart women@HebaJournalist @anitakatt@Lili_Assaba We talked about, among others, -how far we've come-origins and resistance to 'decolonising'-practical chang

Dw i want to shut up too

ive got time today so let’s talk about why decolonisation is not the same as diversity (directly lifted from my gender agenda workshop!) i use the example of OITNB because

Helene von Bismarck

The problematic tendency of the current UK government to impose their own definition of 'impartiality‘ on major cultural institutions is exacerbated by their refusal to embrace historic complexity.Exhibit A: decolonisation.Thread

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost

ghostofchristo1

Decolonisation as a form of cultural practice takes 2 forms: the therapeutic and the bureaucratic. In the therapeutic mode, it’s about “decolonising oneself.” This can mean just about anything and

@AdannaAO_ currently doubles as a 4th year MPharm Student and a community pharmacy pre-registration Pharmacist, who is excited for an opportunity like this to showcase Black Pharmacists/ Pharmacy students. The

Prof Bunny Hugger 🌍🌹🌱💙 #ClimateAction

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're presenting a vision of a positive social, environmental, economic alternative without putting the need to fight against entrenched power

Important by @ArchaeologyFitz The conversation in question yet again reinforced why British (and European) archaeology is so overwhelmingly white and often feels so exclusive and alienating to me. I’m

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

This is indeed the popular British narrative -- that Britain's role in the slave trade was to end it, that the British empire decolonised so much more peacefully than the

Chisomo Kalinga, PhD

I'd like to talk about the value and innovation of social media use, particularly by black/African scholars, especially women. For me, decolonisation = innovation and I turned to social media

Aarathi Krishnan

I've been struggling with how easily the vocabulary of 'decolonisation' has become du jour without the rigour and hard work that is needed to fully understand this. The words of

Chief Rabbi Lev Taylor

Sartre famously said that antisemitism creates the Jew. Who we are is defined by how others see us. Without the prejudice against us, we would not exist. Less famous is