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- [Gender Studies Under Threat: Why It Matters to Everyone](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2025/10/31/gender-studies-under-threat/) - by Rabbia Aslam and Shaqiaz Khan In this blog, we are discussing how scholars and students within the field of gender studies are targeted, discredited and treated as if they are not part of objective knowledge production processes within academia. The objection is that Women and Gender Studies (WGS) is not a ‘real’ discipline because
- [Rooted Futures: Building from Within, Not Above](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2025/10/08/rooted-futures/) - by Zdena Middernacht Rapid shifts are reshaping the international development sector. The lingering effects of Trump-era policies are still unfolding, a notable recent example including Botswana, whose national health crisis is also contributed to by USAID’s cutting away a third of the country’s HIV response funding, which the latter was providing. At the same time,
- [Taming a capitalist EU, socialist ‚development‘ and Post-Development](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2025/01/15/taming-a-capitalist-eu/) - by Aram Ziai In their text, Tough questions for new EU ‚development‘ commissioner‘, Sarah Delputte, Jan Orbie and Julia Schöneberg are criticising EU development policy from a Post-Development perspective. Appreciating the renaming of the EU development commissioner as one responsible for international partnerships only as a first step in a long series of necessary changes,
- [Is an appreciative appropriation of culture possible?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2025/01/07/appreciative-appropriation/) - by Bruni Sonne (This post is also available to read in German and French) I am white[1], German, female and by and large quite privileged[2], in Germany - and even more so globally. I wore dreadlocks for six years, and very often clothes made from African fabrics. Now you can basically stop reading and immediately
- [Journey Without An Answer - Part III: Use of language](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2024/12/05/journey-without-an-answer-part-iii-use-of-language/) - by Jane Robb, Arinola Adefila, José Pablo Prado Córdova In this series of essays, we use stories from the life experiences of the three international authors to air the pitfalls we come across while sharing knowledge and discuss how this can influence practice in higher education and what this might mean for life outside academia.
- [Journey Without An Answer - Part II: Use of Cultural Norms](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2024/11/28/journey-without-an-answer-part-ii-use-of-cultural-norms/) - by Jane Robb, Arinola Adefila, José Pablo Prado Córdova In this series of essays, we use stories from the life experiences of the three international authors to air the pitfalls we come across while sharing knowledge and discuss how this can influence practice in higher education and what this might mean for life outside academia.
- [Journey Without An Answer: A postcolonial look at epistemic challenges for (un)learning in higher education](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2024/10/25/journey-without-an-answer/) - by Jane Robb, Arinola Adefila, José Pablo Prado Córdova Part I In modern day higher education institutions, we too often arrive at an understanding of the world around us through repetition of learnt facts and exposure to the same (Meissner, 1974). There is little room for generating new knowledge until what are considered the ‘higher
- [LATIN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION SERIES: Part III – Community (vs. individuality)](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2024/09/20/diversity-vs-uniformity-2/) - by Macarena Montero Lobos This is PART III of the “Exploring Latin American contributions to education” series. All parts consist of a blog conversation and a video intervention. This part starts off with a conversation between Macarena and Stephen McCloskey. If you haven’t read Part I and II and the introduction, start here. Stephen McCloskey
- [LATIN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION SERIES: Part IV – Seasonality-Cycles of Life](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2024/09/27/seasonality-cycles-of-life/) - by Macarena Montero Lobos This is PART IV of the “Exploring Latin American contributions to education” series. All parts consist of a blog conversation and a video intervention. This part starts off with a conversation between Macarena and Vanessa Andreotti. If you haven’t read the other parts start here. Vanessa Andreotti is the Dean of
- [LATIN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION SERIES: Part II – Diversity (vs. uniformity)](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2024/08/14/diversity-vs-uniformity/) - by Macarena Montero Lobos This is PART II of the “Exploring Latin American contributions to education” series. All parts consist of a blog conversation and a video intervention. This part starts off with a conversation between Macarena and Mayara Floss. If you haven't read Part I and the introduction, start here. Mayara Floss is a
- [LATIN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION SERIES: Part I - Body (vs.mind)](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2024/07/26/body-vs-mind/) - by Macarena Montero Lobos This is PART I of the "Exploring Latin American contributions to education" series. All parts consist of a blog conversation and a video intervention. This part starts off with a conversation between Macarena and Aisling Walsh. Aisling was awarded a PhD in Sociology from the University of Galway in 2023 and
- [NEW SERIES: Exploring Latin American contributions to education](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2024/07/25/new-series-exploring-latin-american-contributions-to-education/) - Mainstream education, rooted in Eurocentric values, frequently neglects the diversity of worldviews and models of well-being, resulting in the homogenisation of populations under the sway of dominant cultures (Samaniego et al., 2004). This series, created by Macarena Montero Lobos, seeks to promote the recognition of Latin American perspectives and their contributions to the field of
- [On Epistemic Violence and Personal Growth](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2024/05/26/on-epistemic-violence-and-personal-growth-2/) - by Rossella Marino This is a reflection stemming from a particular emotional state, that, considering emotions integral to political inquiry, I did not want or intend to polish in any way. It is about a game. A game of uttering and reacting. The game of who calls what how. A game of power, realisation, resistance.
- [Innocence and Violence: Why it is so hard to talk about Palestine?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2023/12/04/innocence-and-violence-why-it-is-so-hard-to-talk-about-palestine/) - by Giti Chandra The work of violence is to undo what we understand as humanity and civilisation; to counter the need for, and power of, innocence that is foundational to both. It should work, also, as a reminder that requiring that a human being be ‘innocent’ in order not to be a legitimate target of
- [Killing in the name of…](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2023/10/16/killing-in-the-name-of/) - by Aram Ziai Throughout human history, human beings have been killed with various legitimations: in the name of religion, in the name of nationalism, in the name of justice and freedom. Whatever the legitimation, it boils down to taking lives of others and feeling justified in doing that. After the deadly attacks of Hamas on
- [On Creating Spaces of Unlearning](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2023/11/07/on-creating-spaces-of-unlearning/) - by Adriana Cancar Recently I was part of a quite special Summer School and when I look back at it, I especially remember the feeling of trust – trusting each other to listen, to understand as far as possible, to comprehend, to speak, to respond, to feel with each other, to sit in silence together.
- [Diaspora Humanitarianism- A Poetic Expression](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/12/14/diaspora-humanitarianism/) - by Jeevika Vivekananthan I have been scribbling words and calling them poems since I was a kid. It is my preferred method to communicate complicated topics and complex emotions that I cannot express or explain otherwise. These days I also create poetry on a mode of reflexivity when I get frustrated by the content I
- [Uncomfortable in white Skin: Research, (Self-)Reflexivity and Representation](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/12/14/uncomfortable/) - by Fiona Faye I felt uncomfortable when writing about other people after my last research stay in Benin. In qualitative research, you have so much material and then you need to decide what to take in, what to leave out. The picture is always incomplete because you only have a certain number of pages. How
- [Unpaid labour in the academy: the limits of neoliberal inclusion](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2023/04/13/unpaid-labour-in-the-academy/) - published anonymously After discussing the contents of this post, we agreed with the author that they would remain anonymous. Whilst we feel the issues being raised are of importance to elucidating the nature of the challenges with ‘decolonisation’ agendas, well-meaning as they may be, there is a danger that airing views so frankly puts the
- [Visa Regime](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2023/02/22/visa-regime/) - by Aftab Nasir To them, I am but, the skin of a darker shade the stench of a distant land a petty scholar’s senseless thoughts the child of a lesser God an unsettling memory of some troubled past Am I not a victim? of some unjust distribution of some violent delights of a split identity
- [Ecocentric pedagogies and green scholarships: Towards green academia](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2023/02/11/ecocentric-pedagogies/) - by Sayan Dey In 2006, the Ministry of Education in Bhutan launched what is officially known as the Green School System. One of the many purposes of introducing this green education system was to counter the mainstream modern/colonial knowledge systems that are anti-ecological, self-profiting and capitalistic in nature, and to build knowledge systems that are
- [POLYLOGUES AT THE INTERSECTION(S) SERIES: The Construction of Tribal Identity in India](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2023/01/26/polylogues-at-the-intersections-series-the-construction-of-tribal-identity-in-india/) - by Vrishali A tribe in India is an administrative concept. The tribal identity plays an important part in the claims of around 84 million people in India. ‘Tribe’ as a category historically emerged in the colonial period and was used to describe the communities who did not form a apart of the so-called mainstream Hindu
- [POLYLOGUES AT THE INTERSECTION(S) SERIES: Michel Tremblay and Tomson Highway: Decolonizing Dialects and Languages](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2023/01/13/decolonizing-dialects-and-languages/) - by Shannon King Introduction This paper argues that the plays Les Belles-Soeurs and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing tackle the classism associated with languages, and particularly regional dialects of Canada. The plot of Les Belles-Soeurs is about a housewife who wins a large prize of stamps that can be exchanged for products at certain stores if they are
- [POLYLOGUES AT THE INTERSECTION(S) SERIES: Questioning justice:  A feminist reflection on restorative justice and an embrace of both/and](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/11/26/questioning-justice-a-feminist-reflection-on-restorative-justice-and-an-embrace-of-both-and/) - by Jamie Martin With global conditions persistently and pervasively shaped by coloniality, systemic racism and violent patriarchy, what does justice mean? How can one seek justice, and where, under such conditions? What does justice feel like for survivors of sexual abuse and violence? How might we attain justice for survivors? Those of us in places
- [POLYLOGUES AT THE INTERSECTION(S) SERIES: In Pursuit of Decolonization in Belgium](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/11/08/in-pursuit-of-decolonization-in-belgium/) - Encounters of Creolizing Conviviality in a Context of Critical Diversity Awareness by Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde and Mieke Berghmans* From periphery to center: Belgium’s decolonization debate Over the last decades, the Belgian public has, on many occasions, been confronted with the problematic nature of its colonial past. A secretive activist organization for instance cut of the
- [POLYLOGUES AT THE INTERSECTION(S) SERIES: Can An African Black Body Think?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/10/29/can-an-african-black-body-think/) - by Mwaona Nyirongo Western Science and Black Bodies The economics of Black bodies has remained one of the saddest stories of humanity. Throughout space and time, Black bodies have been questioned if they are human enough and capable of thinking. These racist engagements have been practiced and preserved even in spaces that claim to embody
- [POLYLOGUES AT THE INTERSECTION(S) SERIES:  Political genealogies (m)otherwise: on how we talk in pluridiverse decolonial ways, with threads of our own making and held in/as our own territories](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/10/13/polylogues-at-the-intersections-series-political-genealogies-motherwise-on-how-we-talk-in-pluridiverse-decolonial-ways-with-threads-of-our-own-making-and-held-in-as-our-own-territories/) - by Sara C. Motta Whiteness is the sea not the shark: it is the very onto-epistemological embodied and aesthetic grounds of (im)possibility of our becoming human as racialised and feminised peoples in the current matrix of Power and Institutions/ality. As Sara Ahmed (2007, 150) foregrounds ‘it is what coheres the [modern/colonial]world’. For a long time,
- [NEW SERIES: Polylogues at the intersection(s) of decolonisation, conviviality and ‘critical diversity’ literacy:  (Re-)imagining a ‘good life’](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/09/15/polylogues-at-the-intersections/) - The series is edited by Sayan Dey, with support by Kudzaiishe Vanyoro, Aftab Nasir, Lata Narayanaswamy and Julia Schöneberg The Oxfam Inequality Report is a yearly reminder of the pervasiveness and depth of embedded injustices and inequalities in our daily lives. Colonial trajectories continue to shape contemporary tendencies to universalise the constitutive elements of a
- [POLYLOGUES AT THE INTERSECTION(S) SERIES: (Re)imagining a ‘Good Life’ as a Settler Scholar: How Can We Decolonize and Indigenize European Studies through Indigenous Storywork?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/10/01/polylogues-at-the-intersections-series-reimagining-a-good-life-as-a-settler-scholar-how-can-we-decolonize-and-indigenize-european-studies-through-indigenous-storywork/) - by Markus Hallensleben Being aware that colonization is still ongoing, with my very own presence as a white, privileged settler on the Indigenous lands of the Coast Salish people[1] perpetuating the problem, I have begun to reframe my own teaching and research in literary and cultural studies by decentering discourses of Eurocentric identity and diversity
- [POLYLOGUES AT THE INTERSECTION(S) SERIES: Looking Back in Anger: Shifting the Grammar of Colonial/Western Pedagogies](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/09/17/looking-back-in-anger/) - by Sayan Dey In “On Being Truly Educated” (2015) Noam Chomsky argues that “it is not important what we cover in the class, but what we discover in the class to be truly educated”. Etymologically, the word ‘education’ has originated from the Latin word ‘educare’, which can be interpreted as ‘to bring up’, ‘to rear’,
- [A pair of earrings and the gift of intergenerational feminism](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/07/09/the-gift-of-intergenerational-feminism/) - by Megha Kashyap As part of a workshop that I recently attended in London, we were asked to bring an object that reflects our teaching or practice. I found it quite hard to just pick one object because almost every object that I have, has a story. However, for the workshop, I took a pair
- [To crash or not to crash the canon? Seeking to address coloniality in a one-year social science programme in Norway](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/06/25/to-crash-or-not-to-crash-the-canon/) - by Maren Seehawer The decolonising academia movement came to Norway not in form of student protests, but as a – pretty heated – feuilleton debate between academics. During summer 2018, there was strong disagreement between those for whom the inclusion of multiple voices violates the principle of professionalism and is contrary to the whole idea
- [The Anthropocene with its problems and solutions](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/05/28/the-anthropocene-with-its-problems-and-solutions/) - by Adriana Cancar Recently I read about the “Anthropocene”, which describes a new stage in human history where the driving force for environmental changes is understood to be human activity. Climate change is explained in human and social interference with nature – more specifically in the human and social appropriation of, and intervention in, nature
- [Weaving Solidarity – Decolonial Perspectives on Transnational Advocacy of and with the Mapuche](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/05/07/weaving-solidarity/) - by Sebastian Garbe When thinking about international solidarity from a perspective in the Global North, contemporary struggles or revolutionary movements in the Global South of stateless groups like the ones of the Zapatistas, the Kurds, or the Palestinians come to our mind. Going back to the 20th century, we might connect international solidarity with socialist
- ["Hola, Gustavo!"- A personal tribute to Gustavo Esteva](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/04/22/hola-gustavo/) - by Ashish Kothari “Hola, Gustavo, como estas?!” “Hola, Ashish … bien, y tu?” “Bien, Gustavo!” Every month, this is how I have opened a conversation with Gustavo Esteva, as part of the meetings of the core team of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA). The Spanish exchange stops here, and we switch to English, with
- [Whose ideas count? Participatory Methodologies and the Professionalisation of Development Knowledge](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/04/09/whose-ideas-count/) - by Lata Narayanaswamy This is the transcript of Lata's spoken word contribution. You can listen to it, or read on. Tackling the question of whose ideas count is central to efforts to decolonise knowledge. Participatory methodologies then are, at least in theory, one way to address concerns that some ideas and the people with
- [Spaces of Confused In-Betweenness: The Paradoxes of Life and Decoloniality](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/03/24/spaces-of-confused-in-betweenness/) - by Aftab Nasir Any traditional wisdom, be it Vedic, Aztec, Buddhist, Sufi, etc., while withstanding their key differences, seem to converge in a message, i.e., all of us are different from each other and from mother nature; yet one with each other and with her in the same instance. By definition, a paradox is a
- [Decolonisation on a T-shirt : On cooptation and academic careers](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/03/12/decolonisation-on-a-t-shirt/) - by Julia Schöneberg Before I share some observations on how I feel 'decolonising' is coopted in academia, I want to start by situating the position from which I am arguing. I am a white, well-educated, middle-class, able-bodied woman living in Germany and working in a Western university. Inevitably, my approach to decolonisation is shaped by
- [On Ukraine](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/02/26/on-ukraine/) - It is difficult to find words of solidarity that do not sound shallow and are not a mere lip service to express our horror and empathy at the suffering of the Ukrainian people in face of Russian invasion. For some practical suggestions on showing solidarity we would like to point you to Olga Burluyk's list
- [The Lamps in our House: Reflections on Postcolonial Pedagogy](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/02/10/reflections-on-postcolonial-pedagogy/) - by Arudra Burra I I teach philosophy at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi. My teaching reflects my training, which is in the Western philosophical tradition: I teach PhD seminars on Plato and Rawls, while Bentham and Mill often figure in my undergraduate courses. What does it mean to teach these canonical figures of the Western
- [The Case for Inter-Philosophical Dialogue: An African Philosophical Perspective](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/01/20/inter-philosophicaldialogue/) - by Ompha Tshikhudo Malima The History of Philosophy: An Injustice to Africa The practice of philosophy cannot be done with innocence and ignorance while true history and reality shows that “the blurred and dotted picture of the history of Western philosophy is a deformation of the African identity." This was done through denying humanity and thus
- [Decolonial Praxis, Education and COVID-19: Perspectives from India](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/01/04/decolonial-praxis-education/) - An Interview with Sayan Dey by Hadje Cresencio Sadje Background: Since the global outbreak of COVID-19 on December 2019, there have been 271.963.258 confirmed cases, including 5.331.019 deaths, reported to World Health Organisation (WHO, 2021). To address the ongoing challenges of the global pandemic, various governments and non-governmental organisations agreed to continue and strengthen cooperation
- [Makoma Asεm (Affairs of the Heart)](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/12/16/affairs-of-the-heart/) - by A.B. Godfreed Go on, put this trite piece aside let it loose to go find anyone where you are right now. Search each room, look for other lost souls and do this. It’s a must. Alone? All alone! Then, stride out into the street, grab the first one you meet: man,
- [The Zapatistas’ “Journey for Life” and its Implications for a Global Solidarity](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/12/02/the-zapatistas-journey-for-life/) - by Franca Marquardt Meeting the Zapatistas “We have given you the seeds of rebellion against colonialism and capitalism” – this is what the group of Zapatistas that visited us here in Leipzig announced on our last night together. I am still processing this important moment, one that now seems like a dream. But it was
- [Urgencies and imperatives for revolutionary (environmental) transitions: from degrowth and postdevelopment towards the pluriverse?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/10/08/urgencies-and-imperatives-towards-the-pluriverse/) - by Jorge Garcia-Arias and Julia Schöneberg Ontological transitions from the ‘one’ world to ‘a world in which many worlds fit’ There can be no doubt: revolutionary steps are needed to build just alternatives to the failed mainstream model of hegemonic ‘development’ and the universal conception of the ‘one world’ that have proven themselves to ultimately
- [On feminist entanglements and white politics of knowledge](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/10/23/on-feminist-entanglements-and-white-politics-of-knowledge/) - by Lisa-Marlen Gronemeier This contribution is situated within the beginning of my un-learning the single feminist story and its underlying violence, which constitute whiteness in German universities’ gender studies departments. I argue that the dominant knowledge politics enforces and normalizes white feminists’ epistemic privilege as well as practices that are “considered ‘unmarked’ – yet unmarked
- [Decolonising Development Research: Why it is urgently needed and what steps must be taken](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/11/04/decolonising-development-research/) - by Aram Ziai The endeavour of ‘decolonising’ is very much on vogue (not only, but also) in recent discussions and debates in academia and Higher Education. But what does this claim practically and tangibly entail for academia generally and development research and development studies specifically? In this blog, I want to briefly outline what I
- [LIKE ANY OTHER language](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/11/17/like-any-other-language/) - by Maleeha Sattar LIKE ANY OTHER language. It is not a mere language. It is the language of my former masters Still used and cherished by my new rulers. And I am an insufficiently Englishised subject of my English Sarkar1 Here, I am rendered powerless everyday as a ‘postcolonial being’ unfit ‘to carry colonial baggage’2 I
- [How to be an ally? An ongoing (un-)learning journey](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/06/17/how-to-be-an-ally/) - by Maren Seehawer “Indigenous and non-indigenous alliances cut across localities, nations, and continents” and the struggle for decolonisation and “recovering indigenous peoples’ identities … knows no borders”, writes Norwegian professor Anders Breidlid in his (2013) book Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in in the global South. What binds together the steps of my professional life
- [LONG READ: An immanent critique of decolonisation projects](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/09/25/critique-of-decolonisation-projects/) - by Sunny Dhillon The contemporary neoliberal university in the UK is necessarily unable to enact decolonisation. What the university may do, however, is cultivate an intellectual environment ripe to discuss the ongoing pervasiveness of colonialism. In other words, instead of ten point plans or toolkits to award ‘decoloniality’ scores to be highlighted in ‘inclusive’ marketing
- [To give (up) and to learn: #BenderaPutih as an education in solidarity](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/09/10/to-give-up-and-to-learn/) - by Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar A strange dream infects and distorts reality: The former Abah publicly announces that he is overcome by watery defecations, embarrassed to employ the vernacular term—cirit-birit. We will plunder your solidarity and mask it as ours. Mother Superior questions the jealousy of her subjects. The banker, a gold spoon in his mouth,
- [Let's march together!](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/07/02/lets-march-together/) - by Jeevika Vivekananthan Are you working in aid and development? Are you passionate about the work you do? Do you want to change the world for good? Follow this link to listen to the spoken word poetry: Let's march together! I believe in working on myself first to be the change I want to see in
- [On Coloniality/Decoloniality in Knowledge Production and Societies](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/07/16/on-coloniality-decoloniality-in-knowledge-production/) - by Henning Melber Social organisations tend to be based on asymmetric power relations – almost always, almost everywhere. Inequality characterises interaction both inside and in between societies. Class-based hierarchies, peppered by gender imbalances, sexism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and many other forms of discrimination are the order of the day, both nationally as well as internationally.
- [Why I refuse to rethink development – again (and again, and again…)](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/09/22/why-i-refuse-to-rethink-development-again-and-again-and-again/) - This summer I attended several academic conferences, and while I was initially extremely enthusiastic to be given the chance to put my work out for discussion, exchange with and learn from colleagues, by early autumn I am fatigued and disenchanted. Maybe the reason for this is that several of these events where claiming to be
- [Why post-/decolonial perspectives matter](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/11/03/why-post-decolonial-perspectives-matter/) - by Aftab Nasir How ought we to live? The question is multi-faceted and janus-faced. The disciplinary boundaries disappear when one wants to address this question. Is it a philosophical debate, a political discussion, a psychological model, or a historical perspective that is under investigation in this question? The answer is all and none. Yes, these
- [Life Expectancy](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/06/02/life-expectancy/) - by Duduzile S. Ndlovu Living longer than ever possible Others' days are numbered as they set out Racing to be favoured by life's breasts service majesty's royal her on White saviours murder Constructing intractable railways To take home the spoils Laying up streets of gold Preaching we will find ours in the afterlife They built
- [Solidarity](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/05/23/solidarity/) - We write this at a time when we have been watching with horror and anguish the forced eviction and displacement of Palestinians from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, alongside attacks during Eid at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Islam’s 3rd holiest site. As a Convivial Thinking Collective committed to decolonial thought, scholarship and
- [Towards a decolonial EU response to global deforestation](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/05/09/towards-a-decolonial-eu-response-to-global-deforestation/) - by Elke Verhaeghe This contribution is part of a blog series seeking to explore how postdevelopment approaches can inform, infuse and potentially transform the study of EU (development) policies and relationships with the Global South. Under the impetus of the Green New Deal for Europe and intensive NGO advocacy, the EU is currently developing several
- [Looking at the UNDP with different eyes](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/04/09/looking-at-the-undp/) - by Juan Telleria I really like these moments when you find a new idea that catches your attention and changes the way you used to understand something. You are reading a text or listening to something and suddenly you think ‘Oh… I never thought about this issue in this way!’ For a few seconds, your
- [Living between two worlds](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/04/29/living-between-two-worlds/) - by Megha Kashyap It took me a while to pen down these thoughts. Thoughts that otherwise would have just found some space in the corners of my journal. It took me great courage to write these thoughts out openly and and place them in front of my readers. I feel the need to do this
- [Why Positionalities Matter and What They Have to do with Knowledge Production](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/04/20/why-positionalities-matter-and-what-they-have-to-do-with-knowledge-production/) - by Julia Schöneberg, Arda Bilgen and Aftab Nasir Coming from three different educational, geographical, and class backgrounds, the three of us met for the first time in a research institute in Germany. Together with a group of international colleagues, we were eager to be trained in Development Studies and pursue a PhD degree. In reminiscing
- [How do we learn? Engaging with communities of knowledge and culture beyond academic spaces](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/03/26/how-do-we-learn/) - As you know we, as Convivial Thinkers, are continously exploring new formats of learning and engagaging with knowledges and especially with communities of knowledge. For that reason, we are extremely happy to host and feature Parinita Shetty and her work by way of text (- this transcript ) and audio (-the podcast conversation between Parinita
- [Zine: Climate Justice and Flooding (in England)](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/03/11/zine-climate-justice-and-flooding-in-england/) - by Juliet de Little Exacerbated by urbanisation and climate change, flooding in England is predicted to increase in both frequency and volume. Furthemore, existing research demonstrates that the distribution of who is at risk of flooding in England is weighted towards areas of deprivation. In order to engage with and explore flood injustices in England,
- [Beyond human rights ‘promotion’: reimagining the EU-South Caucasus relation](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/02/19/beyond-human-rights-promotion/) - by Laura Luciani The EU’s policies of human rights ‘promotion’ in the South Caucasus region are loaded with coloniality. Rather than projecting a pre-set agenda with homogenising outcomes, the EU should recognise the ‘right to opacity’ of South Caucasus communities and create space for locally meaningful, emancipatory claims to emerge. This contribution is part of
- [On the Colonial Problem in the EU’s ‘Sustainable’ Trade Agreements](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/01/25/colonial-problem-in-eutrade/) - by Camille Nessel This contribution is part of a blog series seeking to explore how postdevelopment approaches can inform, infuse and potentially transform the study of EU (development) policies and relationships with the Global South. European colonialism describes a complex period of economic exploitation, racial ideologies and cultural domination. In the last stages of colonialism
- [Conviviality for a new normality](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/01/23/conviviality-for-a-new-normality/) - by Héctor López Terán The SARS Cov-2 virus pandemic emerges from the multidimensional crisis resulting from our daily destructive behavior with nature, not as a cause of the setbacks in our current society. Control measures to curb the spread of the virus were proposed to solve a life-threatening problem and a "new normal" without questioning
- [From Decolonising the Self to Coming to Voice](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/01/23/from-decolonising-the-self-to-coming-to-voice/) - by Zuleika Bibi Sheik Of the myriad calls for decolonising—the university, the museum, the curriculum, the mind, and so on—few have given attention to decolonising the self[1]. In my/our process of decolonising the self, poetry[2] has been pivotal in giving name to the nameless, which is dreamed but not yet realised (Lorde 2007, 73). As
- [Development Cooperation in a Post-Growth Era](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/12/16/development-cooperation-post-growth/) - by Ulla Puckhaber & Tanja Brumbauer (NELA -Next Economy Lab) “Without growth - no investments, without growth there are no jobs, without growth there is no money for education, without growth there is no help for the weak”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said when introducing the Growth Acceleration Act in November 2009. However, in times
- [A Zine on 'Situated Knowledges'](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/01/08/a-zine-on-situated-knowledges/) - In ‘Situated Knowledges’, Donna Haraway is revolting with many other feminist scholars against the objectivity claim of Scientific knowledge; that is, the researchers’ detachment from their objects of study. Instead, she offers an alternative approach to practicing Science which relies on the concept of vision: What we see is consistent of what we know; what
- [EU trade policy and the “meta-participation” challenge](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/12/22/eu-trade-policy/) - by Diāna Potjomkina This contribution is part of a blog series seeking to explore how postdevelopment approaches can inform, infuse and potentially transform the study of EU (development) policies and relationships with the Global South. The ways in which citizen participation is currently organized for “development” purposes have been questioned by critical observers including the
- [Alternatives to what?: From “The Divide” towards the “Pluriverse”](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/02/14/alternatives-to-what/) - by Julia Schöneberg Postdevelopment proponents offer the most radical critique of past and present development policy and cooperation: It is failed. Rather than thinking about alternative development approaches, reforms and refinements, they call for a full abandonment of “development” as a discourse, as a vision and as a practice. Proponents like Escobar, Esteva, Sachs and
- [Cosying up the desirability of EU democracy support in Africa to postdevelopment: a bridge too far?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/10/15/eu-democracy-support-in-africa/) - by Nathan Vandeputte This contribution is part of a blog series seeking to explore how postdevelopment approaches can inform, infuse and potentially transform the study of EU (development) policies and relationships with the Global South. In 2018, Freedom House recorded the 13th consecutive decline in ‘global freedom’, otherwise described as an ‘unfolding third wave of
- [An African Renaissance perspective on EU-Africa relations](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/11/20/eu-africa-relations/) - by Valentina Brogna In this blog Valentina Brogna explores how the concept of African Renaissance (AR) may reshape the relations between the European Union (EU) and Africa. Partly building on African and diasporic perspectives, she argues that EU-Africa relations are still imbued with coloniality, that there is unclarity as to what delinking from Western modernity
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] Punished if you care, punished if you don’t: Women Health Workers and the COVID-19 pandemic in India](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/12/19/covid-19-pandemic-in-india/) - by Sreerekha Sathi Hard work which never pays, that has been the story of India’s public health workers. Their hard work, care, and attentive love for the country’s most vulnerable has entered a new phase under the COVID-19 pandemic. “They hit my daughter on the head with an iron rod,” said a health worker in
- [Why a firm postcolonial stance is fundamental for the future of ‘development’ NGO work](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/12/10/postcolonial-stance-is-fundamental/) - by Julia Schöneberg Recently, I participated in a NGO workshop, where a large group of German NGO project officers and representatives met to discuss trends and challenges of the sector. One of these was ‘Postcolonialism’ (as a noun). The 'new trend’ was assigned the guiding question of ‘How the ideal Postcolonialism-sensitive development cooperation would look
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] Caring for earth in times of COVID-19](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/12/04/caring-for-earth-in-times-of-covid/) - ...from my place in and beyond Extinction Rebellion Netherlands by Fleur Zantvoort The past months I’ve spent so much time, too much time, sitting inside, looking outside. What the pandemic is leaving me with is a sense of deep discrepancy. I just haven’t been able to match up the view from my window with what
- [In times of crises: Why there is no place for ‘development’ in imagining a just future for all](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/11/13/imagining-a-just-future-for-all/) - by Adriana Cancar In these current times of crises, and I purposely use crises in the plural, fatal misconceptions of ‘development’ and ‘growth’ are becoming even more blatantly apparent. Any given day we can see the consequences of ‘development’. Humans are forced to look for a safe place to live as their homes are simply
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] Mi Vida](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/11/02/mi-vida/) - by Daimys E. García Mi Vida, Writing does not come easily to me; writing during this time has been especially excruciating. A close friend once described me and my process as a ‘mortar and pestle.’ A grinding effort that may produce beautiful results, but does so only through a series of meticulous, painful, relentless breakings
- [Feminist Letters Crossing Borders - Cartas feministas atravessando fronteiras](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/11/05/feminist-letters/) - by Gabriela Monteiro and Ruth Steuerwald Brasília, February 9th, 2020 Hi, my dearest German girl! How I miss you. Here in Brazil, carnival is approaching and people are getting more agitated every day. Last week, I was in Salvador and the Blackest city outside Africa is still pulsating. The Iemanjá celebration[1] was happening on 02/02,
- [The What and the How of Teaching Global Development](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/10/27/teaching-global-development/) - by Anke Schwittay A little over two years ago, this Convivial Thinking blog started with a collective conversation about decolonizing teaching pedagogies. Since then a number of posts have further added to the discussion, and especially its decolonial dimension. Since John Cameron wrote in 2013 about the ‘broader failure in the academy to subject our
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] What does self-reliance really mean? Amazing stories from India’s margins](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/10/18/what-does-self-reliance-really-mean/) - by Ashish Kothari Can you imagine Dalit women farmers in Telangana, once facing hunger and deprivation, contributing 20,000 kgs of foodgrains for COVID19-related relief? Farmers on the Tamil Nadu – Karnataka border continuing to send organic food to Bengaluru consumers even during the lockdown? Villages in Kachchh and Tamil Nadu handling anti-COVID19 health measures, with
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] Relinking as healing: Ruminations on crises and the radical transformation of an antisocial and antirelational world](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/10/05/relinking-as-healing/) - by Julia Suárez-Krabbe Relinking My dear friend, mentor and guide among the spiritual authorities of the four peoples that inhabit Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia (from now on: Mamos), Saúl Martínez, once told me that he was sometimes asked if he was religious, and that his answer was yes - in the etymological
- [News from the Convivial Thinking Writing Collective: Engagements with the (de)coloniality of development research and teaching](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/09/26/collective-engagements-with-the-decoloniality-of-development-research-and-teaching/) - The latest issue of Acta Academica contains the Special Focus: How do we know the world? Collective engagements with the (de)coloniality of development research and teaching. The Special Focus was guest edited by the Convivial Thinking Writing Collective. Our collaborative engagements with the topic have evolved from a workshop in early 2019 and a consecutive
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] Between solidarity and charity: a dialogue from the kitchen](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/09/25/solidarity-and-charity-a-dialogue-from-the-kitchen/) - The Barricade is a volunteer-run collective inspired by raccoons and anarchism, active as a public library and an anti-foodwaste kitchen. Our* library has a variety of radical left wing books and zines that can be loaned for free. We believe that self-education is a crucial element in the struggle for social change and therefore we
- [How postdevelopment can transform EU (‘Development’) Studies](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/09/11/transform-eu-development-studies/) - by Sarah Delputte, Jan Orbie and Julia Schöneberg This is the introduction to a blog series seeking to explore how Postdevelopment approaches can inform, infuse and potentially transform the study of EU (development) policies and relationships with the Global South. The aim is to stimulate thinking about different imaginaries of ‘another Europe’ and alternative role(s)
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] Eating my Food Politics; Reflections During COVID-19](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/09/08/covid-19-pandemic-worlds-stories-from-the-margins-eating-my-food-politics-reflections-during-covid-19/) - by Rosa de Nooijer Image 1 – Quince by Paul de Nooijer My ways of eating have become fundamental to the way I want to be in the world. Food has always played an important role in my life, as we need food to stay alive, but it also connects us to those around us,
- [Cultural management and transition: reflections during the pandemic](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/08/25/cultural-management/) - by Ana Agostino On 29 April this year the Faculty of Culture from University CLAEH in Montevideo organised a forum to reflect on the role of cultural managers during the pandemic, where different approaches and visions were shared. I was glad to participate and contribute with some reflections. This text is the continuation and deepening
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] Caring for Our Shared Life-Worlds](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/07/17/caring/) - by Wendy Harcourt In her beautiful and widely circulated piece in Con Tactos, Judith Butler speaks of Human Traces on the Surfaces of the World asking us to consider deeply our interconnectedness: “The virus lands on, enters, one bounded body and departs to land on the skin of another or on an object, looking for
- [It is time to abandon “development” goals and demand a post-2030 Utopia](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/06/24/it-is-time-to-abandon-development-goals-and-demand-a-post-2030-utopia/) - by Mia Kristin Häckl and Julia Schöneberg Following the critique, by Brecht De Smet, of the inherent shortcomings of the development paradigm, Julia Schöneberg and Mia Kristin Häckl argue for a post-2030 Utopia that starts now. They propose to ‘un-develop’ the Global North and to start from a multitude of radical alternatives from below. These are troubled
- [Re-enchanting Education Beyond the Crisis: On Care in Knowledge Re-Creation](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/07/01/re-enchanting-education/) - by Adrian Schlegel The COVID-19 pandemic, its political responses as well as their devastating social consequences have left me unsettled and weary. As for many students, this moment of total uncertainty has pushed my heart off a cliff while tying my head to the desk attempting to focus on classwork. Currently based at Jawaharlal Nehru
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] Our Bodies are not Machines: From Crisis to Collective Healing](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/06/14/bodies/) - by Paulina Trejo Mendez I googled the word crisis looking for a definition, here are the first three that appeared. The first one: a time of intense difficulty or danger. The second one: a time when an important decision must be made. The third one: The turning point of a disease when an important change
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] BLACK LIVES MATTER - Solidarity Message](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/06/05/blacklivesmatter/) - Some brief remarks from the editors, Rosalba Icaza and Zuleika Sheik When we spoke of breath in our introduction to this series, on how oppression takes the breath away, we could not imagine that a few weeks later our worlds would reel from the death of George Floyd, which brought into the mainstream the deaths
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] Edges of the Pandemic – Survival Activism at the Peripheries in Brazil](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/05/28/pandemic-survival-activism-at-the-peripheries-in-brazil/) - READ IN SPANISH by Su-ming Khoo and Mayara Floss At the edges of necropolitics If the current COVID-19 pandemic has taught us one thing it is that the elephant of widening inequality and basic deprivation is still in the room. A shadow hangs over the struggle to understand the different problems of the COVID-19 pandemic
- [COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/05/09/worlds-stories-from-the-margins/) - by Rosalba Icaza & Zuleika Sheik Some discomforts, reflections and an invitation. The storyteller imbues the margins and our embodied experiences of oppression with sacredness for as Anzaldúa (2007: 60) describes those who are pushed out and have faced multiple oppressions are most likely to develop ‘la facultad’ – the capacity to see in surface
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] THE DAY AFTER](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/05/23/covid-19-pandemic-worlds-stories-from-the-margins-the-day-after/) - by Gustavo Esteva No future We lost floor underfoot. Our world was reasonably predictable. Suddenly, from one day to another, deep trends that allowed us to anticipate the general and probable course of events and behaviors disappeared. We can no longer foresee what will happen. We are facing radical uncertainty. There are inertias, obsessions, propensities
- [[COVID-19 Pandemic: Worlds Stories from the Margins] F*** Professionalism:  or Why We Cannot Return to ‘Normal’](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/05/15/f-professionalism/) - by Sara C. Motta READ IN SPANISH Returning to this blog post 10 days after it was initially and hurriedly penned as the layers of exhaustion and necessity of not returning to, or acting, normal becomes increasingly urgent and palpably felt-sensed. Writing from solo isolation with my two youngest and third arriving next week, in
- [[COVID-19] Pandemic agnotology and the ‘worlds’ of development](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/05/13/covid-19-pandemic-agnotology/) - by Su-ming Khoo The ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic places a magnifying glass on many issues of local and global fairness and justice that have been ignored and under-emphasised. The world-wide outbreak, the public health measures to contain it, and the resulting socioeconomic disruption call for greater attention to be paid to the inequities and injustices
- [[COVID-19] (Insubordinate) Conviviality in the COVID-19 Conjuncture](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/04/24/insubordinateconviviality/) - by Manolo Callahan There is no escaping COVID-19. And by now, most agree we all must contribute what we can to minimize the impact of this deadly virus. Unfortunately, there is less agreement about what has changed and even more uncertainty about what will be our "new normal" as we pass through this crisis. The
- [[COVID-19] Every breath you take: COVID-19, Racism and the Climate Crisis](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/04/28/covid-19-racism-and-climate-crisis/) - by Portia Roelofs Last year, I wrote an article arguing that air travel was *the* issue that showcased the deadly intersection of race, climate change and inequality. Indeed, as COVID-19 struck, I thought I’d been proven right. We were able to see who the British government was willing to endanger or protect in a pandemic
- [[COVID-19] Conviviality in Quarantine](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/03/18/conviviality-in-quarantine/) - by Serena Stein As Covid-19 accelerates in the United States, we are only beginning to come to terms with new realities of 'distancing,' immobility, and enclosure that jeopardize the conviviality and deeper bonds that sustain us. As infection and dis-ease spread throughout the world, the belated arrival of coronavirus to the United States was an opportunity
- [[COVID–19] (Re)configurations of violent knowledge management, epistemic inferiorization and neo-colonial divisions](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/03/24/covid-19-reconfigurations/) - by Sayan Dey In the following, I will argue how COVID-19 is re-configuring the already existing neo-colonial patterns of knowledge production and management in India. As the pandemic of COVID-19 is quarantining and rampaging each and every aspect of habitual existence across the globe, the global education system (especially higher educational institutions like colleges and
- [[COVID-19] Coronavirus and the much needed overcoming of capitalism](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/04/04/coronavirus-and-the-overcoming-of-capitalism/) - by Ana Agostino Read in Spanish The arrival of the Coronavirus in Uruguay has put the population on alert and transformed daily life. The call to stay at home cannot be answered in the same way by all people, considering the activities they carry out but also because not everyone has the real possibility of
- [The ‘Naked’ Researcher](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/04/08/the-naked-researcher/) - by Jeevika Vivekananthan Vankkam. Wominjeka. I am a Tamil diaspora woman living on the land of Wurundjeri people. I acknowledge the elders past, present and emerging for their wisdom and the resistance against all forms of oppression. Even though I come from a war-and-conflict-affected Tamil community in the North of Sri Lanka, I acknowledge my
- [Decoloniality and the Activist Intellectual](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/03/14/decoloniality-and-the-activist-intellectual/) - by Ompha Tshikhudo Malima The most important questions in decolonial studies are: “what do we decolonise?” and “how do we decolonise?” On what needs to be decolonised, my focus is on the issue of narratives in terms of writing. The narrative needs to be changed due to the question of epistemic justice. History shows us
- [The LONG READ on DECOLONISING KNOWLEDGE: How western Euro-centrism is systemically preserved and what we can do to subvert it](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/02/29/decolonising-knowledge/) - by Romina Istratii Recently, I participated in a panel that was convened at LSE dedicated to the topic of decolonising African knowledge systems. The panel members, who included also Prof Akosua Adomako Ampofo from the University of Ghana and Dr Wangui wa Goro, were invited to trace the progress made to-date in decolonising Africa's knowledge
- [ONLINE TALK: When Science is jumping off the stage: On the intersections of activism, theatre and scholarship](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/02/28/to/) - by Joschka Köck A question that I have often asked myself as a researcher and theatre maker is: Can social science jump off the page and into reality? Can theatre jump off the stage and become/have impact on reality? In this webinar I will try to argue that this is not a yes/no question but
- [Identity, ‘Britishness’, and Leaving the EU: What will decolonisation look like for the UK now?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/02/01/brexit/) - by Vanessa Bradbury I felt a deep sadness on the 31st of January 2020, as the UK left the EU. It was a sadness that seemed to run much deeper than the repetitive ‘what ifs’ of politics, policies and trade deals echoing through news channels. A sadness that seemed personal, and, as I was trying
- [Indigenous Sovereignty and the Canadian Colonial State: Pipelines, Orcas and a Poem](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/01/18/orcas-and-a-poem/) - by Budd L Hall I live in Victoria, British Colombia on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations. Indigenous people have been living in British Colombia for at least 16,000 years. It is the home of 52 different First Nations with about the same number of languages. Prior to 1846,
- [Undeveloping the North](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/09/14/undeveloping-the-north/) - by Aram Ziai The concept of ‘Undeveloping the North’ (‘Abwicklung des Nordens’) opposes both the discourse of ‘development’ in general (and its imperative of ‘developing the South’) and the discourse of ‘sustainable development’ as its accompanying ecological modernization. It sees relations of power in global capitalism and its drive for accumulation as the cause of
- [“Lands selling like hot cakes”- Village Politics and Development disorientation](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/09/20/lands-selling-like-hot-cakes-village-politics-and-development-disorientation/) - by Alesia Ofori Dedaa A common assumption about land inheritance and ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa is that it is either matrilineal or patrilineal. However, land ownership is complex and highly political. My family have had to negotiate these complexities in our quest to access, own and keep land in our small world. Land titling used
- [Spirituality, a road to sustainable worlds?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/09/28/spirituality-a-road-to-sustainable-worlds/) - by Anton Vandevoorde “Water is life, water is sacred” Dale told me, a strong Mi’kmaq water protector, while we were sitting in a strawbale house. The local Mi’kmaq First Nations are protesting since 2014 against the construction of an underground gas storage near Stewiacke, Nova Scotia. Alton Gas, a subsidiary of Alta Gas wants to
- [Being a ‘hypocritic’ commonwealth scholar: On moments of colonial backlog and postcolonial fractures](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/10/05/being-a-hypocritic-commonwealth-scholar-on-moments-of-colonial-backlog-and-postcolonial-fractures/) - by Vijitha Rajan This short note is a reflection on how I felt fractured being a Commonwealth Scholar, between my colonial past and post-colonial present. In the discourse of international development, a Commonwealth scholarship is symbolised as a gesture of the lasting commitment of the United Kingdom towards Commonwealth citizens. Yet its lesser projected colonial
- [Empirical Evidences of a Scholar from the Periphery of the Global South](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/11/13/empirical-evidences-of-a-scholar-from-the-periphery/) - by Rabbia Aslam (English below) Download Rabbia's contribution in Urdu! I write from a place within the public sector in Pakistan. I am from Pakistan and I live in the province of Punjab. There's one privilege in my life, which is to belong to and be educated from middle class family background. I am based
- [As scholars from the Global South, we must resist being complicit](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/11/02/as-scholars-from-the-global-south/) - by Laura Loyola-Hernández This intervention is written from someone who is from the Global South and working in a Global North institution, often encountering racism, xenophobia and “white fragility;” someone in between borders, juggling dos lenguas, two epistemologies and cultures. I write from a place of privilege and submission, I am a latinx working in
- [Development: a failed project](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/11/29/development-a-failed-project/) - Read also in SPANISH It’s time to abandon development and think about postdevelopment instead. by Julia Schöneberg "They talk to me about progress, about 'achievements,' diseases cured, improved standards of living. I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities
- [It's all about "Post-" and "De-": Some (Dis-)entanglements of Post- and Decolonialism and Postdevelopment](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/01/03/its-all-about-post-and-de/) - by Julia Schöneberg Starting to read about critical perspectives towards “development” you will soon encounter post- and decolonial literature and arguments, popping up regularly as catchwords. Both are not homogenous streams of thought, but rather certain standpoints from which “development”, capitalism, Eurocentrism, Anthropocentrism and the ongoing legacies of colonialism are critiqued and contested. Then, you
- [CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Views on the EU as a development actor in conversation with postdevelopment](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/12/19/call-for-contributions-views-on-the-eu-as-a-development-actor-in-conversation-with-postdevelopment/) - We are calling on scholars of EU Studies, Development Studies, International Relations and related fields. We would like to invite you to submit your abstracts for our panel session on "Views on the EU as a development actor in conversation with postdevelopment", which will take place at the upcoming EADI ISS 2020 Conference in The
- [Post-Development: Just an Utopian, Abstract Critique of Development or Practical Starting Point for Development from Below?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/02/17/post-development-just-an-utopian-abstract-critque-of-development-or-practical-starting-point-for-development-from-below/) - by Julia Schöneberg You are looking for a very (very) brief introduction to Post-Development? Look no further! Here's a zine for you! You are wondering what a zine is? As you know, the aim of the Convivial Thinking Collective is to push boundaries of traditional, oftentimes restrictive, forms of knowledge production and its dissemination. Pushing these
- [Reaching the least, the last, the lowest and the lost: Thoughts on Gandhi-ji and the spirit of Higher Education](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/10/19/reaching-the-least-the-last-the-lowest-and-the-lost-thoughts-on-gandhi-ji-and-the-spirit-of-higher-education/) - by Budd Hall and Rajesh Tandon The words in the title of this blog are the formal goals of the Dayalbagh Educational Institute, a university founded by followers of the Radhaswami faith in the early 20th Century. We learned about the unique and inspiring work of the Dayalbagh University from Dr. Anand Mohan, the Registrar
- [The Follies of African Nationalism](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/09/07/the-follies-of-african-nationalism/) - by Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare “I try to make myself small so they leave me alone, Sometimes, I get depressed and I stay at home. Some say that we’re making too big of a deal. But come live a day as a woman, You’ll see if we’re making it up or if it’s real.” —Toute Fine
- [‘Tipping’ in contemporary India: A colonial story](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/08/31/tipping/) - by Sayan Dey A few years ago I was travelling by a sleeper class train from Kolkata to New Delhi. As the train was about to reach the final destination, one of the pantry car serviceman approached me for a tip. I was happy to give him a reasonable amount of money for his tireless
- [Post-Development: Decolonial Alternatives to Development](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/08/29/post-development-decolonial-alternatives-to-development/) - This is the introductory note of the conference on 'Decolonial Alternatives to Development' that is organised at University of Kassel, Germany, 10 - 11 September. Members of the Convivial Thinking Collective are attending the conference and will report. Since the 1990s, the Post‐Development critique has sparked debate in development theory and policy. It rejected the
- [Elephants in the ‘development’ room – a response to Julia Schöneberg and Henning Melber](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/08/24/elephants-in-the-development/) - by Su-ming Khoo This blog post responds to earlier posts by Julia Schöneberg and Julia Schöneberg and Henning Melber registering continuing disenchantment with ‘development’, concern with a lack of consensus and common definition, and calling for its abolition. Julia’s first blog argued that we should not become the unwitting bearers of a vision of development
- [A Postcolonial Look On 'New' Donors](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/08/17/a-postcolonial-look-on-new-donors/) - by Tomáš Profant International relations are power relations. This banal argument is clearly visible in the current configuration of the North-South relation. One of the most apparent ways power operates is through the bond of gift. The powerful nations give and the not so powerful receive the so called development assistance. Both are represented as
- [Why it is time to turn the decolonial lens onto the institutional structures of Higher Education](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/07/07/why-it-is-time-to-turn-the-decolonial-lens-onto-the-institutional-structures-of-higher-education/) - by Lata Narayanaswamy Through the ‘colonial encounter’, existing power relations and imbalances have been shaped in ways that are geographically and temporally uneven yet politically enduring. Unsettling these tendencies through a more critical reflection on how the colonial encounter underpins these perceptions is key to the application of the ‘decolonial’ lens. Calls to ‘decolonise’ the
- [Dealing with discomfort: how to move from theory to action in research ethics?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/06/28/dealing-with-discomfort-how-to-move-from-theory-to-action-in-research-ethics/) - By Marketta Vuola and Aina Brias Guinart “How do we lift the words on a page that describe how we ought to conduct ourselves, to connect more directly with the intention of those ethical principles and practices in concrete, meaningful ways?”. Bannister (2018) As PhD students in the early phase of our academic careers we
- [In defense of random](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/06/22/in-the-defense-of-random/) - by Aftab Nasir Suffering originates from the sense of possessing as possession stimulates the fear of loss. The way to achieve knowledge is by being truthful to oneself and feel for others. We insulate, thereby fictionize, our egos with good looking rugs of words that may or may not symbolize the things around me. I
- [Voicing Decoloniality](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/06/15/voicing-decoloniality/) - by Sayan Dey As the physically visible empires of colonialism receded, the metaphysical, invisible empires of coloniality gradually came to the forefront and ideally replaced their predecessors. With the ‘official’ end of colonialism by the end of 20th century, across the Global South and Far East, the colonial subjects (mis)interpreted it as the ultimate end
- [The Black Market of Knowledge Production](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/06/08/the-black-market-of-knowledge-production/) - Researchers David Mwambari and Arthur Owor question the effect of money in producing knowledge in post-conflict contexts and argue that it restricts independent local research. These insights were developed at the ‘Silent Voices’ workshop at Ghent University, which brought together Ghent-based researchers and a group of researchers, commonly called "research assistants", from post-conflict and developing
- [Creation Song: A Revelation](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/05/31/creation-song-a-revelation/) - by Budd Hall Our cries of fear and pain Our cries of joy of happiness Were our first poems Before words Before sentences Before grammar Before language We imitated birds and other animals And found that with our sounds we could share Our experience and tell a story With each other Our first sounds/poems
- [Problems of development and “development” as a problem](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/05/25/problems-of-development-and-development-as-a-problem/) - by Henning Melber and Julia Schöneberg Right-wing populism remains on the rise, unleashing the brute force of predator capitalism under authoritarian regimes. The temporary vision of promoting social welfare states as a form of good governance has been replaced by new ideologies bordering to a revival of Social Darwinism. White supremacists, populists and nationalists (re-)enter
- [[How do we "know" the world Series] Preventing War. Shaping Peace? Epistemic Violence and Conflict Studies](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/05/18/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-preventing-war-shaping-peace-epistemic-violence-and-conflict-studies/) - by Franziska Sopha Working on questions of violence and violent conflict in International Relations has turned out to be a deeply confusing and sometimes daunting undertaking for me, especially after my last experience as a research assistant in Dakar, Senegal. I was working for International Crisis Group, a self-designated “independent organisation working to prevent wars
- [[How do we “know” the World Series] Does the Co-Production of Knowledge Work?  Experiences from a Cross-Site Teaching Project between the Universities of Pretoria and Düsseldorf](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/05/10/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-does-the-co-production-of-knowledge-work-experiences-from-a-cross-site-teaching-project-between-the-universities-of-pretoria-and-dusseldorf/) - by Witold Mucha and Christina Pesch Knowledge (re-)production, especially in the field of the social sciences, is a social process of discourse and debate, of speech and response. However, 500 years of (Western) colonial expansion have made a lasting impact. Today's debate is both epistemically and ontologically shaped by Anglo-American and European perspectives (Ndlovu-Gatshenis 2018;
- [What is Wrong with the Foundations of Education in a Pluriverse? A Personal Account](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/05/03/what-is-wrong-with-the-foundations-of-education-in-a-pluriverse-a-personal-account/) - by Victor Nweke The call to decolonize institutions of learning both in terms of the composition of the curricula and the facilitators (teachers) is now an issue even in Europe, the United Kingdom, North-America, and Australia. Prior to the 21st century, the call was predominantly made by intellectuals and students from colonized nations, of which
- [Challenges to EU Development Policy: Paradigm Lost or Stretched?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/04/26/challenges-to-eu-development-policy-paradigm-lost-or-stretched/) - by Sarah Delputte and Jan Orbie European Union (EU) development policy seems plagued by many challenges from within and outside. We argue that underlying these challenges lay more fundamental problems with the Eurocentric, modernist and colonial paradigm of EU development policy. We witness some cracks in the pillars of the current paradigm, namely in the
- [[How Do We "Know" the World Series] Why does the question matter? - Reflections from the Workshop](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/01/19/how-do-we-know-the-world-why-does-the-question-matter-reflections-from-the-workshop/) - by Lata Narayanaswamy and Julia Schöneberg In our one-day workshop we aimed to overcome academic “silos” and connect scholars from diverse fields in the social and natural sciences. Surprisingly, or probably not so, we quickly realized that struggles, discomforts and contestations were very similar among us regardless of whether our discipline is Peace Studies, Agro-Forestry,
- [[How Do We "Know" the World Series] Looking Back to Walk Forward: Decolonisation as Self-Determination](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/01/19/how-do-we-know-the-world-blog-series-looking-back-to-walk-forward-decolonisation-as-self-determination/) - by Vanessa Bradbury Aotearoa, the long white cloud. A vast country secluded by ocean; a depth of ecological beauty with rolling hills of green, empowering mountains that cut through soft white clouds; rivers, lakes and oceans that flow with the crisp, clean air; sunsets that radiate the surroundings with a peachy gentleness; long roads and
- [[How Do We Know the World Series] What are the limits of identity and positionality in the decolonisation debate?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/01/26/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-part-iv-what-are-the-limits-of-identity-and-positionality-in-the-decolonisation-debate/) - by Grace Ese-osa Idahosa This short piece addresses the issue of the limiting role of identity and positionality on the extent of individuals’ contribution to the decolonisation process in institutions. Focusing on universities in South Africa (SA), it interrogates the role of identity and social positions in the decolonisation and knowledge production process. It asks
- [[How Do We Know The World Series] To Reform or not to – The crescendo of decoloniality within Higher Learning Institutions in Africa](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/02/02/to-reform-or-not-to-the-crescendo-of-decoloniality-within-higher-learning-institutions-in-africa/) - by Gift Mwonzora There has emerged a growing chorus for a need to decolonize the African higher education system. This chorus for reform has been widely pronounced within the Global South, especially in African countries. Countries that have witnessed the crescendo of such demands include South Africa, but others are also beginning to reconsider such
- [[How Do We Know The World Series]  Thinking with and not about the Global South – Challenging Eurocentrism in Social Science Research and Teaching](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/02/09/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-part-vi-thinking-with-and-not-about-the-global-south-challenging-eurocentrism-in-social-science-research-and-teaching/) - by Sebastian M. Garbe As a result of political and intellectual efforts, post- and decolonial critiques have become more and more prominent during the last decades, but to counter Eurocentrism within the Social Sciences is still a big challenge. In this contribution, I would like to share some attempts of how I have been dealing
- [[How Do We Know The World Series] Knowing The World? Navigating Asymmetries of Power through a Politics and Praxis of Care](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/02/16/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-part-viii-knowing-the-world-navigating-asymmetries-of-power-through-a-politics-and-praxis-of-care/) - by Siti Maimunah and Enid Still “How do we know the world?” It is a difficult and multi-layered question. Yet it enticed us, two colleagues, women from the global north and south respectively, to collaborate and reflect upon our journeys as researchers, activists and now as fellow PhD students. Reflection upon our experiences, Enid as
- [[How Do We Know the World Series]  The Power of Agency: Bringing Back Subjects’ Agency in Academia and Activism](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/02/23/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-part-viii-the-power-of-agency-bringing-back-subjects-agency-in-academia-and-activism/) - by Sophie Bergmann In the last few months a spectre appears to haunt Europe and its cultural institutions, namely museums and their artefacts – it is the spectre of postcolonialism. The cultural and intellectual structures, that epistemically prepared and justified the occupation of the African continent and the exploitation of its economic and cultural wealth
- [[How Do We "Know" the World Series] About International “Experts” - Critical Thinking and an Inferiority Complex](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/03/01/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-part-ix-about-international-experts-critical-thinking-and-an-inferiority-complex/) - by Janita Bartell The following are reflections on my 3.5 years of working as a Research and Learning Manager for a local Cambodian NGO. I do not wish to reveal names of people, organizations or sectors in this essay as I believe these details might distract from the underlying pattern across most people, organizations and
- [[How Do We "Know" the World Series] Shifting from Research-led Teaching to Liberal Arts Education – Some Critical Reflections from a Non-white Academic Scholar](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/03/09/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-part-x-shifting-from-research-led-teaching-to-liberal-arts-education-some-critical-reflections-from-a-non-white-academic-scholar/) - by Sam Wong I divide my reflections into two parts: the first part focuses on my changing teaching styles from research-led teaching in the UK to liberal arts teaching in the Netherlands. The second part touches on the post-colonial dilemmas of my identities and research profiles. To help readers understand my arguments, a brief introduction
- [[How Do We "Know" The World Series]  To what extent does a colonial present pervade Higher Education and serve to reproduce structural hierarchies?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/03/16/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-part-xi-to-what-extent-does-a-colonial-present-pervade-higher-education-and-serve-to-reproduce-structural-hierarchies/) - by Su-ming Khoo and Paul Prinsloo How does the concept and pursuit of ‘quality’ in Higer Education (HE) bind to, or unbind HE from, stubborn inequalities? To what extent does a colonial present pervade HE and serve to reproduce structural hierarchies? We believe that it is essential to examine historical-structural roots of inequities and understand
- [[How Do We "know" the World Series] Reciprocity as Research Ethics](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/03/23/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-part-xii-reciprocity-as-research-ethics/) - by Christopher Millora As a novice researcher, I once found solace in Robert Stake’s simple framing of qualitative researchers as “guests in the private spaces in the world”[i]. Back when I was an aspiring ethnographer, my quest to ‘knowing the world’ depended, quite significantly, on my participants having allowed me to enter their lifeworlds where
- [[How Do We "Know" The World Series] The Problem of Postcolonial Historical Research within Colonial Epistemologies and Methodologies](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/03/29/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-part-xiii-the-problem-of-postcolonial-historical-research-within-colonial-epistemologies-and-methodologies/) - by Rachel Huber In postcolonial historical research conducted from a Eurocentric perspective, a contradiction has prevailed so far: the majority of research projects are conducted in colonial language and follow partial colonial logic. In general, the Western academic institutionalized space and scientific thought structures are based on a colonial genealogy that not only perpetuates a
- [[How do we "know" the World Series] Problems of Research Partnerships: Who Learns from Whom in Conflict Transformation Processes?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/04/19/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-part-iv-critical-perspectives-on-the-relationship-between-scientists-and-practitioners-who-learns-from-whom-in-conflict-transformation-processes/) - by Nora Schröder und Michaela Zöhrer We are increasingly confronted with the imperatives of partnership and relationships at eye level. Such normative claims are needed precisely because equality and symmetrical relationships are not a fact but rather a promise. We need them as a moral compass which indicates variations from the norm in order to
- [[How do We "Know" the World Series] Encounters with Theory: (Un)Learning Ways of Knowing](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/04/26/how-do-we-know-the-world-series-encounters-with-theory-unlearning-ways-of-knowing/) - by Zeynep Gülşah Çapan The manner in which knowledge systems are organized and disciplinary formations are delimited work to delineate who can ‘speak’, who can ‘think’ and who is worthy of being ‘read’ and ‘listened’. It is not that ‘other ways’ of thinking are not present, there is a wide archive of knowledge available if
- [On Academic Writing](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/04/22/on-academic-writing/) - I pretend to be a writer, but really If I am honest What can I write? I have learned the craft like a technician Assembling words, pieces Obeying to a rigid plan of construction. What really is the purpose of writing If not to convey the creation of something new? Instead, I
- [CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS: Post-Development: Decolonial Alternatives to Development](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/03/16/call-for-papers-and-contributions-post-development-decolonial-alternatives-to-development/) - Since the 1990s, the Post‐Development critique has sparked debate in development theory and policy. It rejected the entire paradigm of ‘development’ – that there are ‘developed’ and ‘less developed’ countries, thus a universal scale, and that the former can be found in the industrialised West. It furthermore criticised the paradigm’s colonial continuities – a Eurocentric
- [CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Intercultural Philosophy and Critical Development Theory in Dialogue](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/03/06/call-for-abstracts-intercultural-philosophy-and-critical-development-theory-in-dialogue/) - ++ Please read the Call also in Spanish, French, German. We thank Mariela Vargas and Rodrigue Naortangar for the translations. ++ Intercultural Philosophy has taken a global perspective from its start, it endeavoured “to interconnect contributions from all cultural traditions into philosophical discourses equally, this is to say, not just putting them aside each other
- [Decolonization: not just a buzzword…](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/02/07/decolonization-not-just-a-buzzword/) - by Budd L Hall This is the name of a ‘headphone verbatim show’ capturing campus conversations at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. It will be the third interaction with discourses of decolonisation and epistemic justice that I will have within two weeks. The first interaction was with Florence Piron, a scholar of epistemic
- [Call for Participation: Critical academic perspectives on scholarship in the social sciences – How do we "know" the world?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/10/20/call-for-participation-critical-academic-perspectives-on-scholarship-in-the-social-sciences-how-do-we-know-the-world/) - In the last few years we have witnessed a ‘postcolonial turn’ in relation to questions about the historical bases for how we approach issues of knowledge (co-)production, expertise and representation and which have gained significant momentum in academic discussions. Whilst debates about ‘whose knowledge counts’ have and continue to rage in areas such as Development
- [Invitation for Virtual Participation: "How do we know the world?"](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/12/14/invitation-for-virtual-participation-how-do-we-know-the-world/) - Our call for contributions on the workshop on "Critical academic perspectives on scholarship in the social sciences – How do we "know" the world?" has reveived such big number of response. It is great to see that these questions seem to be of concern to so many. However, we are well aware that attendence (or
- [[How Do We "Know" the World  Series] Part I: How can we "know" the world - and reflect on it academically?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2019/01/12/how-can-we-know-the-world-and-reflect-on-it-academically/) - by Lata Narayanaswamy This post is the start of a series of reflections on critical scholarship contributed by participants of the workshop "How do we know the world" . The workshop is co-organised by Lata Narayanaswamy and Julia Schöneberg. How do we ‘know’ the world? It is so vast a question that it feels, perhaps
- ["Alternatives to development" as a universal project?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/11/24/alternatives-to-development/) - by Julia Schöneberg Thinking, reading and writing about “development” can be a daunting undertaking – and it gets worse the deeper you dig. Starting off as a student with the naïve desire to learn about development in order to acquire the tools and skills for making the world a better place, my occupation with the
- [The Feast and the Liberation of Sensing](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/12/15/the-feast-and-the-liberation-of-sensing/) - by Zuleika B. Sheik Feast Knowledge. I am hungry for it. With gluttonous abandon, I devour it. Leaving you depleted. Exhausted. Drained. Still you come back for more. Why? Because I promised you something. A piece of paper. Legitimacy. A seat. A table. Ah…your ancestors fell for that too. So many generations, yet so
- [Decolonising teaching pedagogies - Convivial reflections](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/08/14/decolonising-teaching-pedagogies-convivial-reflections/) - Introductory Note The following conversation is a result of a collaborative project initiated by convivial thinkers. The call for collaboration was shared via the group’s newsletter and through twitter channels of individual members. Through this approach we aimed to reach out to a group of collaborators as diverse as possible and beyond our established networks
- [Entanglements of Positionality – Reflections on development research practice](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/08/19/entanglements-of-positionality-reflections-on-development-research-practice/) - Talk given at the Early Career Researchers Plenary, Development Studies Association Conference, 28 June 2018, Manchester by Julia Schöneberg I was enthusiastic to embark on my PhD field research. Ready to observe and to research, to analyse and to understand. The proposal was fully elaborated, I was well into the literature review and the flight
- [The Decolonial ‘Wrong Turn’ in Indian Academia](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/12/08/the-decolonial-wrong-turn-in-indian-academia/) - by Sayan Dey With the arrival of the postcolonial era in India, the nation faced the gargantuan task of wiping out the toxic remnants of colonization that the British dumped on the indigenous natives before leaving India. The colonially structured education system was one of them. In the year 1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay’s ‘sincere’ efforts
- [Torpor and Awakening](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/12/01/torpor-and-awakening/) - by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti I am from a family with Indigenous Latin American and German ancestry. I have been to many different countries and lived in different places. I believe this is partly because the Indigenous tradition my family comes from is nomadic. They see the earth as a living entity, and if they
- [Development Requires (Epistemic) Justice](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/08/26/development-requires-epistemic-justice/) - This statement is a result of discussions among members of the EADI Working Group on "Post-/Decolonial Perspectives on Development" As researchers within the realms of development we strife to unify research, practice and the production of knowledges in general to jointly contribute to political, economic, ecologic and social change worldwide. This cannot be neutral: research
- [Solidarity as Development Practice? - Insights from Volunteering Practices in Global South Communities](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/09/01/the-valuable-contribution-of-volunteering-by-vulnerable-populations/) - by Christopher Millora The tendency to frame ‘poor’ and ‘vulnerable’ populations as subjects and recipients of development programmes continues to persist today. In international volunteering, so-called 'global south' nations seems to be often framed as ‘beneficiaries’ and ‘hosts’ of services delivered by volunteers from the so-called ‘global north’ nations. There is also the widely known
- [Multi-layered Selves: Colonialism, Decolonization and Counter-Intuitive Learning Spaces](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/09/08/multi-layered-selves-colonialism-decolonization-and-counter-intuitive-learning-spaces/) - Republished from artseverywhere | musagetes by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti As I wondered about the best way to write this text, two related events caught my attention. First, I received a call for publications with the title “After De-colonizing…What?” issued after an extremely productive (albeit difficult) 2015 gathering in Portugal on the theme of ‘Eco-versities’.
- [A call for resistance](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/09/15/a-call-for-resistance/) - Republished from Decolonize | Politics, art, decoloniality, autonomous health & feminism | Many thanks to Sat Trejo for sharing this with us here. In this post I want to share a poem that is a call for collective healing and resistance against the violence of dehumanization racialized and gendered bodies have been experiencing as a
- [The challenge of epistemic poverty and how to think beyond what we know](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/10/06/the-challenge-of-epistemic-poverty-and-how-to-think-beyond-what-we-know/) - by Sruti Bala Researchers face the challenge of engaging with the topic of epistemic diversity. We know that we should consider diverse knowledges in our research, but how can this be operationalised? This blog post engages with this question and shows us that it first of all means calling into question what we hold dear—the
- [As the World Churns](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/09/29/as-the-world-churns/) - As the WORLD churns so must our stomachs for WE are LOST in (deep) space this no place to hide— PROGRESS is failing as the world churns the chaff w/o enough wheat for all of us to eat and yet there’s meat to greet, at the feet of, pot-bellied profiteers (Oh, what a feast!) as
- [The “objectivity” of knowledge(s)](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/10/13/the-objectivity-of-knowledges/) - by Aftab Nasir Objective knowledge or objectivity in producing knowledge and the elements of method, both are myths. It is mythological in the literal sense of the word. Before we untangle this concept, let’s revisit what a myth is. Myth is something non-real, imaginary yet authentic or authoritative. Myth has an intrinsic value that makes
- [Funding Social Change or: How to most successfully derail a social movement?](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/10/27/funding-social-change-or-how-to-most-successfully-derail-a-social-movement/) - by Julia Schöneberg Development has failed. Given the many shortcomings and failures we witness after decades of development intervention and myriads of development projects this claim seems to hold true. Development projects are prone to pitfalls of paternalism and cooptation, perpetuating dependency and are often ill-fitted to local needs and imaginaries. On the other hand,
- [How to make the "decolonial turn" more than just a fashion](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/11/10/how-to-make-the-decolonial-turn-more-than-just-a-fashion/) - by Paola Minoia Numerous calls for papers and conferences around Europe and globally give us the impression that we are now going towards a “decolonial turn” in many disciplines: development studies, IR, geography etc. On the other hand, many criticize this pick of initiatives, doubting their effective and truly challenging nature vis-à-vis the current systems
- [Call for Abstracts: Re-Thinking, Re-defining, Re-positioning: “Development” and the Question of “Alternatives”](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2018/11/17/call-for-abstracts-re-thinking-re-defining-re-positioning-development-and-the-question-of-alternatives/) - Development Days Conference, Helsinki, 27.02.-01.03.2019 Critiques of development of the last three decades have clearly pinpointed the many flaws in the way development is theorised and practiced (Escobar 1985, 1992; Esteva and Prakash 1997, 1998; Ferguson 1990; Kothari 2005; Kiely 1995; Munck 1999; Rahnema and Bawtree 1997; Sachs 1992; Schuurmann, 1993; Ziai 2012, 2016). We

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- [Scars and Scratches](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/scars-and-scratches/) - The project "Scars and Scratches" was conceived in 2020 by three people from India, belonging to three different walks of life. The people are Soumali Roy, who is a home tutor and deeply engages with creative aspects like waste-craft, weaving, and painting; Amit Singh, who recently completed his high school and is an aspiring fashion
- [convivial publishing](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/convivial-publishing/) - Convivial Thinking offers spaces for like-minded to get together, learn from each other and co-create. Some results of these collaborations are collected here: Scars and Scratches: A Collection of Protest Artworks co-created by Soumali Roy, Sayan Dey and Amit Singh This project has emerged from a diverse set of social, cultural, and emotional scars, scratches,
- [Reading session on the 'decolonial bandwagon'](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/reading-session-on-the-decolonial-bandwagon/) - Leon Moosavi states, ‘decolonisation is everywhere. But are all forms of decolonisation to be celebrated?’ The article explores some of the dangers and concerns of academic decolonisation which critically analyse approaches to decolonisation which might do more harm than good if [our] collective commitment is not critically reflexive. To access the article, please do use
- [arts and visuals](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/arts-and-visuals/) - Knowledges, wisdom and creativity should not only be conveyed through our standard means of communication - written or spoken word. Instead, here we are sharing artistic and visual engagements of and with thinking convivially. Visual Have a look at our collection of brief reflection prompts: More of Ashish Kothari's doodles are available here.
- [Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group (PeDAGoG)](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/post-development-academic-activist-global-group-pedagog/) - PeDAGoG (Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group) is a global network of academics and academic-activists interested in post-development, radical alternatives, and related themes, initiated in early 2020. The main idea is to: share existing course curricula, materials, methods/pedagogy, and approaches; propose new ones; coordinate programmes across different geographies and cultures; and be able to offer learning experiences
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- [works](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/works/) - Looking for some inspirational reading? These are a few of our open access favourites: Bhambra, Gurminder K (2007) Connected Sociologies. Theory for a Global Age Series, Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2014. Full text. In this book Bhambra engages sociology and social theory with postcolonial studies and decoloniality. Césaire, Aime (1972) Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham.
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- [Decolonial Subversions](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/decolonial-subversions/) - Decolonial Subversions is a new open access (free-of-charge) peer-reviewed, multilingual publishing platform committed to decentring western epistemology. It was launched on 30 March 2020 through an engaging livestreamed event that brought together viewers and speakers from across the world. The platform was established by the Founding Editors, Dr. Romina Istratii and Monika Hirmer, both currently
- [Bordes de la Pandemia - Activismo de Supervivencia en las Periferias en Brasil](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/bordes-de-la-pandemia-activismo-de-supervivencia-en-las-periferias-en-brasil/) - Su-ming Khoo and Mayara Floss Traducción Jacqueline Ponzo Una sombra se cierne sobre los intentos por comprender los diferentes problemas de la pandemia de COVID-19: una sombra necropolítica que pone a algunas personas y situaciones peligrosas en un fondo oscuro, mientras que otros se destacan, en primer plano. Los activistas sociales y los profesionales de
- [[Worlds Stories from the Margins] Que se J*** el Profesionalismo: o por qué no podemos volver a la "Normalidad"](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/worlds-stories-from-the-margins-que-se-j-el-profesionalismo-o-por-que-no-podemos-volver-a-la-normalidad/) - by Sara C. Motta Vuelvo a este blog 10 días después de que fuera inicialmente escrito en forma apresurada, cuando las capas del agotamiento y la necesidad de no volver a la normalidad o de actuar como si todo fuera normal, se vuelven cada vez más urgentes y son palpablemente sentidas[1]. Escribo desde el aislamiento
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- [Czech](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/czech/) - Many thanks to Mirek Tobiáš Hošman for the translation Jsme otevřená skupina akademiků, která se zaměřuje na všemožné aspekty a problémy spojené s post-koloniálním a dekolonizačním přístupem ke studiu rozvoje, rozvojových studií a souvisejících oblastí. Myslíme si, že post-koloniální a dekolonizační perspektivy jsou příliš důležité na to, aby byly přehlíženy v debatách o rozvoji a v akademickém světě
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- [Decolonial Reading Circle on Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/second-reading-circle/) - The session started with a brief introduction to the work of Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui by José Francisco Bustillo. He explained that: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s work is ever-relevant to understanding indigenous struggles in Latin-America, particularly in Bolivia. She studied Sociology in La Paz, Bolivia and then completed anthropological graduate studies. She has been linked to the
- [Decolonial Reading Circle on C.K. Raju](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/decolonial-reading-circle-on-c-k-raju/) - Synopsis by Sayan Dey Our discussion started with a brief recapitulation of our Ist Decolonial meet where we discussed one of the chapters from Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth." We continued with our discussion by making a shift towards the arguments made by Prof. C.K. Raju in his works. The discussion was powerfully
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- [](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/forums/reply/653/) - Hi Kristina, How about this from the EADI blog: http://wordpress.p288574.webspaceconfig.de/?p=214
- [](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/forums/reply/560/) - I would love to de-center the classroom by engaging students for students. Instead of the teacher standing at the center the students will discuss share and argue their learning and research with each other.
- [](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/forums/reply/549/) - A few questions to consider while reading: How does the text challenge us to consider the ways in which the colonial spirit is perpetuated to this day? What is Fanon's demand for decolonization? Fanon writes: "The colonial world is a world divided into compartments". What do we make of that in a contemporary context?
- [](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/forums/reply/513/) - I think what is really important is to not make the mistake to seek the one theory of "alternatives to development" that replaces previous ones but is just the same in claiming universality. It is really important to acknowledge the partiality and subjectivity of different worldviews and their limited applicability. As you say, works and
- [](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/forums/reply/508/) - Thanks for joining, Francesco, and for taking the time to respond so extensively. First of all, I agree with the points you are making. I can hardly speak on behalf of my peers, why should I be able to speak on behalf of any other group I am not familiar with, regardless of whether I
- [](https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/forums/reply/506/) - Thanks Julia for starting the forum and this discussion. There is a real risk in this important discussion (a risk of fallacy 'ad hominem', specifically) in assuming that the debate applies specifically to non-developing country academics studying development. In fact, the question of 'legitimacy to research development', brought to the extreme, would very likely delegitimise

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