Episode 6: Structural, Epistemic, and Personal Decolonisation

Keywords Part A

  • structural decolonisation
  • racial, patriarchal and economic structures
  • epistemic decolonisation
  • coloniality of power
  • epistemic virtue
  • personal decolonisation
  • gender struggles

Interviewer
Patricia Pinky Ndlovu

Concept & Content Development
Thando Tilmann and Tamar Sarkissian

Film Team
Dr. Johanna Ickert, René Arnold and Andrew Berry

Resources

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Crenshaw, Kimberlé W. On Intersectionality: Essential Writings. New York: The New Press, 2017.

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press, 1967.

Gaffney, Adam. “Racism and Respiration.” Boston Review, 2021. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/adam-gaffney-racism-and-respiration/?fbclid=IwAR1mfyQbbb5_GgxcbgaPZVihCDtkaFEHLLyn4UzA7p2J4_9PM9MpV3grhJo.

Hooks, Bell. Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. New York: The New Press, 1995.

Meldrum, Andrew. “Stealing Beauty.” The Guardian, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/mar/15/art.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. “The Emergence and Trajectories of Struggles for an ‘African University’: The Case of Unfinished Business of African Epistemic Decolonisation.” Kronos Southern African Histories 43, no. 1 (2017): 51–77. https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2017/v43a4.

Smith, J. Goosby, and Josie Bell Lindsay. “Ubuntu in Action.” Essay. In Beyond Inclusion: Worklife Interconnectedness, Energy, and Resilience in Organizations, 183–98. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137385420_12.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ Revised Edition, from the ‘History’ Chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason.” Essay. In Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea, edited by Rosalind C. Morris, 21–78. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/morr14384.

Thiongʼo, Ngũgĩ wa. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. London: James Currey, 1986.

Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa. Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms. London: James Currey, 1993.

Vergés, Françoise, Lesego Rampolokeng, David Macey, and Harriett Gilbert. “The Legacy of Frantz Fanon.” Episode. Meridian. BBC, 2000. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m10c7.