Contributions to decolonial theory are made from different parts of the world and from different disciplines. Every month this sections bring two contribution to decolonial theory.<\/p>\n
November 2016<\/strong> Sandew Hira explains the differences in research methodology between decolonial theory and positivism on the basis of a report of the University of Amsterdam on diversity of the university. September 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n Asma Lamrabet is a Islamic liberation theologist from Morocco who lectures at the Granada Summer School on Islamic Liberation Theology. DIN interviewed her about her work on Islamic feminism. \u201cToday’s Europe is in the middle of an identity crisis, and questions who belongs to it and who should be kept out,\u201d writes Hatem Bazian. He invokes the memories of the Spanish inquisition. Many progressive groups and academics carry the narrative of intersectionality in their work and activism. Intersectionality calls for the recognition of multiple forms of oppression and exploitation and the need for solidarity. These are ideas that should be supported by everybody. So where does the need come from to criticize the concept of intersectionality from a decolonial perspective? August 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n Houria Bouteldja is leader of the Parti des Indig\u00e8nes de la R\u00e9publique (PIR)<\/a> in France. \u00a0Houria develops decolonial concept on the relationship between racism and the oppression of women. In this article<\/a> she explains: “I am a woman. Not just any woman. And I don\u2019t owe solidarity to just any men. I am an indigenous person and I offer my solidarity to men who share that condition. Those from my community. And if I didn\u2019t offer it, it would catch up with me and force itself on me whether I wanted it or not.”<\/em><\/p>\n Click here <\/a>for the article.<\/p>\n July 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n Ramon Grosfoguel develops the argument based on Frantz Fanon that Racism is a global hierarchy of superiority and inferiority along the line of the human<\/em>. <\/em>Click here <\/a>to read about this theory.<\/p>\n C.K. Raju makes the case for decolonizing mathematics and argues that decolonial mathematics produces better results than colonized mathematics.\u00a0 Click here <\/a>to read an interview with Raju.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Contributions to decolonial theory are made from different parts of the world and from different disciplines. Every month this sections bring two contribution to decolonial theory. November 2016 On August 19 2016 Ramon Grosfoguel and Sandew Hira gave a joint lecture on intersectionality at the University of South Africa, Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, as … Continue reading Decolonial theory<\/span>
\nOn August 19 2016 Ramon Grosfoguel and Sandew Hira gave a joint lecture on intersectionality at the University of South Africa, Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, as part of Africa Decolonial Research Network (ADERN).
\nHere are the videos of the lecture of Grosfoguel<\/a> and Hira<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nClick here<\/a> to read the interview.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe Inquisition was a repressive regulatory structure that governed Muslim and Jewish bodies and spaces, with limits imposed on clothing, food, hygiene and movement,\u201d says Hatem. \u201cThe Islamophobia industry’s expected response to drawing similarities between the Inquisition and what is occurring today would be rejection, and possibly to consider it faulty because Europe is facing Muslim terrorist and security threats.\u201d
\nBut Hatem explains the reason for the comparison: \u201cThe Inquisition witnessed the construction of a distinct European identity centring on whiteness and coupled with Christianity, which meant casting out the other – the Jew and Muslim – to arrive at “purity of race” or “pure to the source” epistemic.\u201d
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\nSandew Hira explains both the need and the nature of the critique.
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