Resisting Colonialism

Resisting Colonialism
EPISODE SUMMARY This week we ask: what are the wider impacts and legacies of colonialism, and how can we go about resisting them? EPISODE NOTES A common idea in academic theory and activism, as we start to move towards less unjust institutions, is that we need to decolonise things, from university curricula to museum collections. Following on from a brilliant event which took place last week at UCL, the UCL-Penn State Joint Conference on ‘Resisting Colonialism’, we are discussing these ideas with the three organisers. The conference ranged from discussions what to do about unpaid reparations, museum collections, and the monuments of colonisers; to decolonial approaches to immigration and theories of resistance. Joining us today to talk about some of these important ideas are: Dr Shuk Ying Chan, Assistant Professor in Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at UCL, whose book in progress examines decolonisation as an unfinished project of global justice; Dr Desiree Li
Rosa Holt
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7/12/2023
00:36:50
politics, Podcast, colonialism
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