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Decolonisation: what is it?

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Decolonisation

'It is not simply about the token inclusion of a few BAME writers, but an underlying transformation from a culture of denial and exclusion to a consideration of different traditions of knowledge. To diversify our curriculum is to challenge power relations and call for deeper thinking about the content of our courses and how we teach them.'

James Muldoon 2019 Academics: it's time to get behind decolonising the curriculum (Guardian 2019)

 

Further listening

Times Higher Education Podcast

Sara Custer with Jess Crilly and Regina Everitt

Articles: The origins of decolonising movement

This essay situates the project of ‘decolonising’ the metropolitan university within a wider historical and intellectual context while delineating some of the key questions such an endeavour might grapple with.

by Priyamvada Gopal

                        Protesters demanding the removal of the Cecil Rhodes statue from the front of Oriel College, Oxford.

               Photograph: David Hartley/Rex/Shutterstock

After the nation’s long retreat from multiculturalism and the return of a rose‑tinted memory of empire, it is no accident that the Rhodes Must Fall movement has come to Britain
by Amit Chaudhuri

Why is My Curriculum White? - Decolonising the Academy (UCL)

Why is My Curriculum White? - Decolonising the Academy (UCL)

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