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Narrating and Displaying China and Chineseness: White Dominance, White Saviourism and Decoloniality

Narrating and Displaying China and Chineseness: White Dominance, White Saviourism and Decoloniality

Who are the Chinese and what is China? These are seemingly irreverent and vacuous questions. Surely, the answers are evident to any Cartesian-minded person. And yet these are questions I have increasingly felt the need to address over the past three decades, from the moment I started questioning my own

Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Decolonial Contradictions

Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Decolonial Contradictions

Context[1] A book which I edited and which has been published recently Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political and Economic Imaginaries,[2] whilst not primarily oriented to the field of Postcolonial studies, certainly addresses a number of important questions regarding socialist Yugoslavia's enrolment in

Decolonial Thinking And Revolutionary Events Conference - March 8th & 9th (Virtual)

Decolonial Thinking And Revolutionary Events Conference - March 8th & 9th (Virtual)

Goldsmiths' Centre for Postcolonial Studies is hosting Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events conference on March 8th and 9th, 2023. In the last decades, decolonial thinking has been reterritorializing corners of academia, producing a series of dislocations in our relationship to knowledge and political discourse. In doing so, it has

IT IS A CHANGE OF ERA, NO LONGER AN ERA OF CHANGES

IT IS A CHANGE OF ERA, NO LONGER AN ERA OF CHANGES

I The current accumulation of “crises” (pandemic, global warming, financial crises, mass unemployment, the risk of nuclear conflagration, increasing rates of femicides and suicides) might appear as symptomatic of a specific juncture in the long modern/colonial era of changes and crises. (1500-2000) An unquestionable signpost of our time is

CALL FOR PAPERS: Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events

CALL FOR PAPERS: Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events

Goldsmiths, University of London, March 8 and 9, 2023, London In the last decades, decolonial thinking has been reterritorializing corners of academia, producing a series of dislocations in our relationship to knowledge and socially constructed reality. In doing so, it has exposed the imprints of coloniality on thinking whilst looking

Radical Imaginations: Decolonizing Art Institutions Through Practical Actions in the post-COVID Landscape

Radical Imaginations: Decolonizing Art Institutions Through Practical Actions in the post-COVID Landscape

The museum is in crisis. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and social uprising centered around Black Lives Matter, conversations around art institutions have jumped to the forefront of calls for decolonization. Yet one major question remains: What will a decolonized museum look like, especially now? Since beginning this

You can’t understand the world without learning about empire

You can’t understand the world without learning about empire

Observing the protests against racism in the streets of the US, UK, Australia and elsewhere feels like watching not only a mass movement, but also a classroom, crackling with intellectual energy. For the movement on the streets is not just protesting against specific acts and omissions, it is also making