Category: Activism
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Summative Report on the United Nations 1st Permanent Forum of People of African Descent, Geneva, 5-8 December 2022
A summative report for Decolonial Dialogues on the United Nations 1st Permanent Forum of People of African Descent, held at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, 5-8 December 2022, written by Carol Ann Dixon, Ph.D. Over eight thematic sessions an international gathering of government representatives, NGOs, human rights experts, racial justice campaigners, scholar-activists, educators, EDI…
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United Nations First Permanent Forum of People of African Descent, December 2022 – Advocacy and Action on Human Rights, Equalities, Recognition and Justice
The United Nations 1st Permanent Forum of People of African Descent (PFPAD) takes place at the Palace of Nations, Geneva, 5-8 December 2022. Organised via the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in consultation with an independent panel of human rights experts drawn from around the world, this international gathering will address…
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Thoughts on Barbarians! Why language matters?
By Amira Chahrazed Chenine (PhD candidate in English Literature, University of Mostaganem, Algeria) As an Algerian, I was raised and taught to be proud of who I am and of where I come from – especially because of our long history of resistance. For this reason, within Algerian heritage many consider that the people symbolize resistance…
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Discussing Anti-Racist Activism in Museums at the SIEF 2021 International Congress
The 15th SIEF Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore) took place online in June 2021, organised around the theme “Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation and Transgression.” Scholars, activists, heritage practitioners, artists and other creative professionals from a range of employment sectors and subject disciplines were invited…
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Global Islamophobia discourses, Minority rights and Forced conversion in Pakistan (Part 1) – A Conversation
Dr. Ahmed Raza Memon and Dr. Sufi Ghulam Hussain *The underlying context of this discussion relates to Hussain’s baseline study, under the auspices of Institute of Policy Studies which complicates the issue through on-the-ground conversation with Dalit rights activist in Sindh, a study of reportage and NGO publications forced conversion issue. The baseline study title…
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Daffodils and Snow: Whose Language Matters? Part 1. A Conversation about Decolonising How We Teach, Learn, and Research
Three multilingual members of the Decolonial Dialogues co-editorial team – Riadh Ghemmour, Maica Gugolati and Carol Ann Dixon – present December’s jointly authored blog in order to critically reflect on the question, “Whose language matters?” Their research perspectives are informed by the decolonial praxis and scholar-activism of key luminaries – including Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Gayatri…
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“Decolonising the Curatorial Process” – a new film, produced and directed by Dr Orson Nava
Orson Nava’s documentary film “Decolonising the Curatorial Process” features recordings of conference footage and individual interviews with a range of contributors who examine ways that decolonial activists, museologists, political scientists, historians and other scholar-activists from South Africa, Kenya and the UK are working with radical museum curators to challenge Eurocentric approaches to the study of…
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‘Deconstructing Institutional Racism through a Decolonial Lens’ (recorded event) – 14 October 2020
On Wednesday 14 October 2020, Decolonial Dialogues and Race, Ethnicity and Education Network (REEN), University of Exeter, UK hosted a virtual artist’s talk, featuring musician and activist, Pravini Baboeram producer of the documentary ‘The Uprising’ Within this joint virtual artist’s event, Pravini and all correspondents discussed the genesis of the movie, and shared, in details,…
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Decolonial Ecology: Holistically Addressing Environmental, Social, and Political Challenges for a Fairer and more Sustainable World
Book review: Ferdinand, M (2019), Une écologie décoloniale. Penser l’écologie depuis le monde Caribéen, Paris: Le Seuil, 432p. Disclaimer: This book review is based on some core ideas developed by Malcolm Ferdinand. Nonetheless, I selected the ones that resonated the most with me and my research. Therefore, the way I presented the argument developed by…
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But forest bathing is not new to Indigenous communities: it is a way of life!
Picture taken on 28 February 2019 by Indigenous (Kabyle) friend, Koceila Ait Slimane. View showing a part of his Indigenous village (Tassaft) and the snowy mountains of Djurdjura (Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria) By Riadh Ghemmour (PhD candidate, University of Exeter, UK) In this current blog, I discuss how the global pandemic affected the psychological wellbeing of many…
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