Dr Bhakti Shringarpure: Notes on Fake Decolonization (EISPS Global Politics Remix 2021: Decolonial, Black and Queer Perspectives)

Dr Bhakti Shringarpure: Notes on Fake Decolonization (EISPS Global Politics Remix 2021: Decolonial, Black and Queer Perspectives)
With the intensification of popular debates, discussions as well as knowledge production in the form of books and articles on the subject of decolonization, it is imperative to ask what the term has come to signify today. Ngugi wa Thiongo's landmark publication Decolonising the Mind in the late eighties shifted the term's scope into social and psychological terrain rather than simply indicating a transition of political power from the hands of the colonizer into those of the formerly colonized. Today, the verb "to decolonize" evokes curricula, syllabi, wellness, beauty, fashion and food. In this talk, we will engage the various new registers of decolonization and ask what counts as real and fake decolonization today.
Igor Rogelja
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2/11/2021
00:55:22
EISPS, decolonialisation, activists, academia
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