Posts Tagged ‘decolonizing’

For Anthropology, decolonizing knowledge means supporting the academic boycott of Israel

The Palestinian call for BDS is a challenge to colonial infrastructures of knowledge and an invitation to help remake them. This challenge is central to our work as anthropologists in moving past colonial social science. Source

Decolonizing the Palestinian imagination

Artist Steve Sabella’s new book, “Palestine Unsettled,” liberates the image of Palestine from the confines of the mainstream media and Israeli propaganda. “I wanted to invite or lead audiences on a journey through Palestine that defies and revises their expectations,” he explains. Source

Decolonizing Pan-Americanism

Above photo: Government of México. 21st Summit of Foreign Ministers from the Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States (CELAC), July 24, 2021. “The reality is that we need not only a new system of human rights, but a new Inter-American system. We must understand that the Americas to the north and south of […]

Decolonizing Thanksgiving And Supporting Indigenous Peoples

This week, as some people in the United States celebrated the mythical ‘Thanksgiving’ dinner, Indigenous Peoples held a National Day of Mourning and continued their resistance to defend the land and water. As Native American, Matt Remle, writes: “Despite colonial efforts to exterminate, terminate, relocate, and assimilate Indigenous populations, Native communities continue to resist efforts […]

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