26th November 2020, 14:00-16:00
Speakers: Samson O. Opondo – Vassar College, Gajendran Ayyathurai – Göttingen University, Sabiha Allouche – University of Exeter, Esmeralda Mariel Martínez Gutiérrez – Autonomous University of Mexico City.
This roundtable will engage with the active process of decolonising knowledges, by presenting alternative epistemologies and praxis emanating from the global South. We will commence by offering a critique of established Western epistemologies, showing how they contribute to forms of colonisation, past and present, and limit possibilities for research. The discussion will then look at examples of non-dominant and non-dominating ways of knowing which are slowly gaining presence in contemporary research. We will engage with the pluriverse, forging links between theorising and activism, and acknowledging the possibilities for knowledge production and solidarity which emerge from building decolonial epistemology. Focussing on the categories of race, gender, caste, and sexuality, this conversation will offer alternative visions/futures not just of relations between people but of people within the beyond-human world.