This episode of Undersong emerges from a recorded roundtable discussion on the trajectory of the term 'decolonisation', as a political and historical term. The four speakers are in conversation about what forms the term takes on today, as they trace its passing through different people, languages, locations, and institutions. ......................................................................................................................................... Speakers' bios: Dr Katucha Bento is Associate Director of RACE.ED, and Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. She is a political sociologist focussing on topics around Black diaspora, affective economy, Brazilian institutions, nation, and intersectional oppressions. Her research and teachings are interdisciplinary, exploring Black Feminism, Critical Race Studies, Decolonial Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Rhetorical Analysis and Education. Jason Arday is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow, School of Education, College of Social Sciences. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and a Visiting Professor at Durham University in the Department of Sociology. Jason holds other Visiting Professorships at Coventry University, London Metropolitan University and Nelson Mandela University. He is a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading Race Equality Thinktank and the British Sociological Association (BSA). Dr. Shaira Vadasaria is Associate Director of RACE.ED and a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching draws on interdisciplinary thought attentive to race, law and social regulation in the broader context of settler colonial nation building. Her work is anchored in methodologically driven questions concerning circuits of race and racial violence as they travel geographically and epistemically, the persistence of racial violence and freedom under settler colonial life, and the forms of world-making established on the carceral peripheries of empire’s claim to sovereign power. Her working monograph, Temporalities of Return: Race, Redress and Refusal in Palestine, considers what Palestinian return – as enunciated through land-based movements and aesthetic and sensory practice – reveals about the politics of race, redress and refusal at the intersection of humanitarianism and settler colonialism in Palestine. Dr Ali Kassem is an IASH-Alwaleed postdoctoral research fellow associated with the Institute Project on Decoloniality (IPD ’24). During 2020-2021, Ali was postdoctoral research fellow with the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and the Carnegie Corporation of New York with an affiliation to the Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Ali received his PhD in 2020 from the School of Law, Politics, and Sociology at the University of Sussex and held teaching appointments at Sussex between 2018-2021. His main interests are in Post-, anti-, and decolonial work, ethnic and racial studies, inequalities, Islam and Knowledge making. ............................................................................................................................. Mentioned literature and people: Tuck, E. & K. Wayne Yang. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. In: Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-40 Franz Fanon Toni Morisson Achille Mbembe Walter D Mignolo Shirley Tate Léila Gonzalez Beatriz Nascimento Sylva Wynter Sylvia Rivera Cusicanqui bell hooks Angela Davis Shirley Anne Tate Palestinian Unity Intifada 2021 Saidiya Hartmann Chisomo Kalinga ...................................................................... The title music of this podcast is "Origin Funk" by Ketsa, provided under the Creative Commons license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
