Decolonising Ideas is a podcast from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. From 2021 to 2024, we're hosting the Institute Project on Decoloniality, supporting over 100 researchers from around the world to come to Edinburgh to explore decoloniality in its many forms. This podcast features riveting conversations surrounding their research.
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Decolonising Ideas is a podcast from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. From 2021 to 2024, we're hosting the Institute Project on Decoloniality, supporting over 100 researchers from around the world to come to Edinburgh to explore decoloniality in its many forms. This podcast features riveting conversations surrounding their research.
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August 15, 2024
Uncovering the Past: Dr. Simon Buck on the University of Edinburgh's Ties to African Enslavement and the Path to Decoloniality
<p>In this episode, Dr Simon Buck discusses his research on the University of Edinburgh's historical links to African Enslavement and how this relates to wider projects and practices of Decoloniality in Universities such as Edinburgh. </p> <p>You can find out more about the Institute Project on Decoloniality at: <a href="https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/ipd">https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/ipd</a></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>We would like to thank everyone involved in making this episode possible:</p> <p>Speaker - Dr Simon Buck, Research Fellow (University of Edinburgh’s Historical Links to African Enslavement and Colonialism) at IASH</p> <p>Speaker, Recording, and Editing - Ash Scholz, Decoloniality Intern at IASH</p> <p>Series Production - Ben Fletcher-Watson, Deputy Director at IASH</p> <p><br></p> <p>Theme music composed and performed by Saber Bamatraf. Please visit <a href="https://soundcloud.com/saber-bamatraf">https://soundcloud.com/saber-bamatraf</a> to hear more of his music.</p>
October 31, 2022
Applying for an IASH Fellowship: a short guide
<p>At the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, we host around 60 researchers each year from all around the world and at all career stages, from recent PhD graduates to senior academics. People often ask about our application process and what our reviewers are looking for in an application, so we're sharing some of the key aspects that our selection panels have highlighted over the years. This is especially aimed at postdoctoral researchers who are planning to apply to IASH, but is hopefully of interest to all.</p> <p>We would like to thank everyone involved in making this episode possible:</p> <p>Writer and presenter - Ben Fletcher-Watson</p> <p>Recording and Editing - Lauren Galligan</p> <p>Branding - Lucien Staddon Foster</p> <p>Series Production - Ben Fletcher-Watson</p> <p>Theme music composed and performed by Saber Bamatraf. Please visit <a href="https://soundcloud.com/saber-bamatraf" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"><u>https://soundcloud.com/saber-bamatraf</u></a> to hear more of his music.</p> <p>Please visit our website at <a href="http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/">www.iash.ed.ac.uk</a> to find out more about all our Fellowship programmes.</p>
March 10, 2022
Bonus: What is Decoloniality? Plus Ali and Nadeen's Recommendations
<p>In this bonus episode, which complements our first episode, "Decoloniality and the Arab Majority World", Dr Ali Kassem and Dr Nadeen Dakkak discuss their definitions of decoloniality and provide recommendations of readings and art forms relating to decoloniality. </p> <p><strong>Find out more about the Institute Project on Decoloniality: </strong><a href="https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/ipd" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/ipd</a></p> <p><strong>Recommendations: </strong></p> <p><strong>Nadeen</strong></p> <p>Omar AlShehabi (2019). <em>Contested Modernity: Sectarianism, Nationalism and Colonialism in Bahrain</em>. Oneworld Publications, London.</p> <p>Amal Ghazal (2010).<em> Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s</em>. Routledge, London.</p> <p>Amitav Ghosh (1992). <em>In an Antique Land</em>. Granta Books, London.</p> <p>Ahmed Kanna, Amelie Le Renard and Neha Vora (2020). <em>Beyond Exception: New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula</em>. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.</p> <p>Amelie Le Renard (2021). <em>Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai</em>. Stanford University Press, Redwood City.</p> <p>Ussama Makdisi (2019). <em>Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World</em>. University of California Press, Berkeley.</p> <p>Timothy Mitchell (2011). <em>Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil</em>. Verso Books, New York.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKGUJXzxNqc&ab_channel=NacionalRecords">Ana Tijoux - Somos Sur (Feat. Shadia Mansour)</a></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Ali</strong></p> <p>Anaheed Al-Hardan (2014). Decolonizing Research on Palestinians: Towards Critical Epistemologies and Research Practices. <em>Qualitative Inquiry</em>, <em>20</em>(1), 61-71.</p> <p>Gurminder Bhambra (2014). Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues. <em>Postcolonial Studies</em>, <em>17</em>(2)<em>,</em> 115-121.</p> <p>Gurminder Bhambra & John Holmwood (2021). <em>Colonialism and Modern Social Theory</em>. Wiley, New Jersey.</p> <p>Frantz Fanon (1963). <em>The Wretched of the Earth</em>. Penguin Modern Classics, London.</p> <p>Frantz Fanon (1967). <em>Black Skin, White Masks</em>. Penguin Modern Classics, London.</p> <p>Ramon Grosfoguel (2013). The Structure of Knowledge in Westernized Universities: Epistemic Racism/Sexism and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long 16th Century. <em>Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, 11</em>(1), 73-90.</p> <p>Ali Kassem (2020). Anti-Muslim hate on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean: Lebanon, the Hijab, and modernity/coloniality. <em>Ethnic and Racial Studies</em>, <em>44</em>(12), 2213-2233.</p> <p>Walter Mignolo (2011). <em>The Darker Side of Western Modernity</em>. Duke University Press, Durham.</p> <p>Sara Salem (2018). Reading Egypt's Postcolonial State Through Frantz Fanon: Hegemony, Dependency and Development. <em>Interventions</em>, <em>20</em>(3), 428-445.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDUPSNdmFew&ab_channel=SantanDave">Dave - Black</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp3XZDK7Lw4&ab_channel=KeryJames">Kery James - Lettre à la République</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKDeCmEDpf8&ab_channel=KeryJames">Kery James - Sans Mio </a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU&ab_channel=GlobalFaction">Lowkey - Terrorist </a></p> <p>Credits: </p> <p>Speakers - Dr. Ali Kassem and Dr Nadeen Dakkak</p> <p>Series Production - Ben Fletcher Watson</p> <p>Branding and Production - Lucien Staddon Foster </p> <p>Recording and Editing - Eric Berger</p> <p>Theme Music - <a href="https://soundcloud.com/saber-bamatraf" target="_blank">Saber Bamatraf</a></p>
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