IKH PHD: Coloniality of knowledge and decolonization under the current crisis
Doctoral School of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University
Course description
As intensified warfare against indigenous and colonized peoples and their lands across the world, the spaces to think in depth with others easily become restricted, and conversations across multiple oppressions are often obstructed. This PhD course aims to establish fruitful conversations about the meanings and implications of coloniality, decoloniality and decolonization under the current crisis through an engagement with decolonial and other Global Southern perspectives that tend to be produced as inexistent in – and by - dominant settings.
The course focuses on the ‘coloniality of knowledge’ and explores decolonization in its different – and overlapping – material, cultural, political, subjective, structural, temporal, spiritual, epistemic and ontological dimensions. This we do in a nurturing and intellectually rigorous environment where decolonization is an ongoing praxis that involves interrogation informed by knowledges, practices and expressions that emerge in contexts of struggle against the modern/colonial system, and for freedom, emancipation, liberation and decolonization. Course description
As you apply for admission to the course, we ask you to write a one-page statement summarizing your current work and the challenges you face professionally, politically and personally. We will then distribute these statements to all accepted participants so that everyone can read each other’s texts before the course starts. The first day of the course will be spent facilitating conversations between us based on the statements. The second and third days of the course, we will explore and think through the rich traditions of decolonial/anticolonial thought-practices for liberation through lectures/activities organized by the course instructors. On the fourth day of the course, we will engage each other’s papers in a workshop based on the written material by the participants (see below). On the fifth day we will conclude with a focus on facilitating a conversation or an activity where participants can reflect on where they are now in relation to where they were when they applied for the course.