A variety of essays By members Of The Global (De)Centre
Reflections on factory, faculty and fun
By Ali Konyali: It was not until I started my PhD trajectory at the Erasmus University Rotterdam that I realized how unreliable research findings can […]
Canonical Enfleshment and Enmeshment
By Kirsten Scheid, American University of Beirut: Approaching art history’s as a toolkit for processes of becoming In January 2013, a Beirut-based newspaper reported that […]
Migration, Culture, and Migrating Culture(s)
By Jens Schneider: From Universal Human Condition to Universal Culture? Human beings have always migrated and human beings have always had ‘culture’, both are intrinsic […]
Migrating People and Migrating Culture
By Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York: Some extremely disorganized stray reflections. In the year of Brexit, the second year of Trump, after several […]
The View from Global Britain
By Adrian Favell: (a small Island off the North West of Europe, sailing North-by-North-West towards an unknown destination) Later, when he reviewed the strange sequence […]
Curiosity transcends boundaries and foments African epistemologies
By Michael P.K. Okyerefo, University of Ghana/Nelson Mandela University This paper contributes to de-centering western dominance and re-centering African Social thought.It argues that the real […]
To belong, or not to belong; that is the question
By Ismintha Waldring: Growing up in Amsterdam in the 1980’s, I went to primary and secondary school with kids who had their origins all over […]
The necessity of de-centering the obvious to include the other
By Halleh Ghorashi, 2019: This essay is based on decades of research I conducted on the conditions of refugees in the Netherlands, yet I believe […]
Growing up (and old) with Chinese philosopher Li Zehou
By Kwok Kian Chow: Think of how the switching between languages, cultures and epistemologies can itself be an integral part of reading and writing, and […]
