What is Decolonisation?
Within British universities, drives to decolonise the curriculum have grappled with the whiteness of syllabuses and lack of representation - all while exploring the problems of using a “decolonising” framework in the first place. Within and without the academy, the term remains ubiquitous and contested. This session will ask - can institutions, whose very own histories are tied to colonisation, ever be decolonised? And if not, what do demands to decolonise the university mean?
Deputy Director of Leading Routes, a project that aims to prepare the next generation of Black academics, and co-host of the Surviving Society Podcast.
PhD candidate from the Department of Geography at UCL and recipient of the Windsor Fellowship Scholarship, Tissot is a member of the board for the International Centre for Racism at Edge Hill University. He is also the co-host of the Surviving Society Podcast, which explores the local and global politics of race and class from a sociological perspective.
Kieron Turner is a PhD student focusing on BDS activism as decolonial praxis, and an activist with Apartheid Off Campus & Palestine Action.
