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June 13. Before European Hegemony
- Janet Abu-Lugodh, Selections from Before European Hegemony
- Ovamir Anjum, Islam as a Discursive World-System
Extra Resources
A video to watch on extractive global capitalism
Immanuel Wallerstein, The modern world-system after 1945
For design historians, Design & The Question of History, Fry, Dilnot & Stewart
Audio Recording of the Lecture
June 20. On Violence
- Frantz Fanon, Concerning Violence, from The Wretched of the Earth
- Paulo Freire, Chapter I, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Extra Resources
W.E.B Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter XIV
Ashish Nandy, Revisiting the Violence of Development
Jennifer Morgan, Kinship & The Middle Passage
Krisis, Marx from the Margins
Romila Thapar on Gandhi and ahimsa
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June 27. The Invention of The Other
- Edward Said, Reconsidering Orientalism
- Dipesh Chakraborty, Provincialising Europe, Chapter 1
Extra Resources
Hamid Dabashi's on Said
Gayatri Spivak on Said
Ranajit Guha's History at the Limits of World History
A relatively balanced critique of William Dalrymple's ouvre
An interesting blog dealing with cultural appropriation and orientalism
Orientalism in Christopher Alexander's text, Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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July 04. The Coloniality of Power
- Anibal Quijano, Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism & Latin America
- Ramon Grosfoguel, Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy
Extra Resources
Nelson Maldanado-Torres on the genealogy of decoloniality
Maria Lugones on the coloniality of gender
Gayatri Spivak's response to Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Interview with Walter Mignolo on postcolonialism, decolonialism, and decoloniality
Audio Recording of the Lecture
July 11. Borderlands & Delinking
- Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands\La Mestiza, Chapters 1,2 and 7
- Walter Mignolo & Madina Tostlanova, Theorizing from the Borders
Audre Lorde, The Uses of the Erotic
Barbara & Beverly Smith, Across the Kitchen Table
Abdelkabir Khatibi, Plural Maghreb
Rosalba Icaza, Border Thinking and Vulnerability as a Knowing Otherwise
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July 18. Settler Colonialism
- Patrick Wolfe, The Elimination of the Native
- Eve Tuck & Wayne Yang, Decolonisation is not a Metaphor
Lorenzo Veracini, Facing the Settler Colonial Present
Dawi Kopenawa, from The Falling Sky
Marshall Sahlins & David Graeber, On Kings
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July 25. Allyship
- Sa'ed Atshan & Darnell Moore, Reciprocal Solidarity
- Sara Ahmed, Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism OR
- Vijay Prashad, The Karma of Brown Folk
Ibram X Kendi, How to be an Antiracist
Jenell Navarro & Kimberly Robertson, The Countdown Remix
Robin DeAngelo, White Fragility
Audio Recording of the Lecture
August 01. Pluriversality & Other-Thought
- Marisol de la Cadena & Arturo Escobar, Pluriverse: A Proposal for a World of Many Worlds
- Lindsay Nixon, Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism
- Ruth Mayer, Africa as an Alien Future
Subcomandante Marcos, Seventh Wind: Some Dignified and Enraged Deceased
Kodwo Eshun, Further Considerations on Afrofuturism
Eduoard Glissant, Creolization in the Making of the Americas
Audio Recording of the Lecture
August 08. Decolonising Research
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Beyond Abyssal Thinking
- Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects
- Audra Simpson, On Ethnographic Refusal
Robina Anne Thomas, Honoring the Oral Traditions of My Ancestors
Antonia Darder, Decolonizing Interpretive Research
Eve Tuck & Wayne Yang, R-Words:Refusing Research
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August 15. Decolonising Gender
- Oyèrónke Oyewùmi, Selections from The Invention of Women OR her podcast here
- Saba Mahmood, The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, Chapter 5
- Mitsuye Yamada, Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster
Abdullah Ocalan, Liberating Life: Woman's Revolution
Chandra Mohanty, Under Western Eyes
Jasbir Puar, I Would Rather Be A Cyborg Than A Goddess
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August 22. Cosmotechnics
- Yuk Hui, Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics
- Shadreck Chirikure, The Metalworker, the Potter, and the Pre-European African Laboratory
Syed Mustafa Ali, A Brief Intro to Decolonial Computing
Vasudha Narayanan, Water, Wood, and Wisdom
Judith Farqahar, Eating Chinese Medicine
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