Nasser Mohamedhoesein
Nasser Mohamedhoesein is a PhD student at VU University Amsterdam. With a background in Civil Engineering, he worked as an educator for 15 years at...
Call for Decentering Pedagogy Tools
2 Feb 2023
Author archives: Frans Lelie
Victor Miguel Castillo de Macedo
Victor Miguel Castillo de Macedo is PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology in the National Museum of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His dissertation deals...
Carlos Quijon
Carlos Quijon, Jr. (b. 1989) is an art historian, critic, and curator based in Manila. He is a fellow of the research platform Modern Art...
A lecture by Raewyn Connell
“Meeting at the Edge of Fear”: Decolonizing the university world.
The title comes from a poem by Saleha Obeid Ghabesh, about solidarity between women across time and space. Raewyn considers the nature of the dominant knowledge formation, several kinds of alternative knowledge formations, and issues in the process of decolonizing university work and establishing epistemic diversity. Raewyn Connell is Professor Emerita, University of Sydney, and Life Member of the National Tertiary Education Union. She is a widely-cited sociological researcher, the author of Gender & Power, Masculinities, and Southern Theory. Her recent books include The Good University and Gênero em termos reais. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. Raewyn has been active in the labour movement, the peace movement, and work for gender equality. Details at www.raewynconnell.net and Twitter @raewynconnell.
Watch the recording of our workshop with Prof. Sharon Stein from the University of British Columbia that took place on January 14th 2021. “Developing Stamina for Decolonizing our Networks.” The GDC has set a high bar for itself with our goal of building a truly international network characterized by relations of trust, reciprocity, and openness. We invited Prof Sharon Stein to do this workshop with the GDC to work on having have common ground from which to continue our work and a set of common tools that can guide our conversations and interactions moving forward.
A DeCentered Conversation with May Al-Dabbagh
In this conversation Peggy Levitt talks with GDC member May Al Dabbagh about the meaning of decentering from the Gulf region and about how she developed “Self Tracing” as a research method and pedagogy tool. May Al-Dabbagh is an assistant professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and has an associated appointment as a global network assistant professor at New York University. She conducts research on gender and work in the Gulf using a combination of social psychology, public policy, and post-colonial feminist lenses. She runs Haraka: Experimental Lab for Arab Art and Social Thought as part of the the newly established Arab Center for the Study of Art.
Kwok Kian Chow
Global (De)Centre Having retired from institutions, Kwok Kian Chow (KC) provides art collection and museum advisory and is an active member of the GDC. A museum...
Blog: ‘Who remains?’ (Part 1): Before we even start our research…
It seems inevitable to apply the question of institutional racism to our own institutional structures within the field of migration, integration and racism research in Germany. Experiences, ideologies and biases of those conducting the research ultimately also influence the topics as well as the research perspectives. The results may also have implications for other disciplines, like history. That is why we offer an insight into our perspective. Blog co-authored by Dimitra Dermitzaki, Alina Goldbach, Nuriani Hamdan, Ali Konyali, Hanna Mai, Saboura Naqshband, and Bahar Oghalai.
By Philip Kasinitz
Those of us lucky enough to be able to work from home now joke about what the blurring of the line between public and domestic space means for our everyday lives: attending “zoom” meetings in sweat pants (or no pants); the little glimpses of the private lives of our colleagues and bosses that spill over onto the screens. Yet, I don’t think we have fully begun to grasp the implications of the sudden withdrawal from public life has meant for our social relations and our politics.
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Laura Haddad
Institute for Social Geography and Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrück University, Germany I am a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social...