Coloniality and Law
In this article, Dr Foluke Adebisi traces colonial thought through time. How Does Law Relate to Humans? Law, like many disciplines in humanities and social sciences, is intimately linked with …
Course: Decolonising Education: From Theory to Practice
Summary of Week 3
After navigating the previous sections, it is clear that decolonising science and medicine requires a collaborative effort. We have covered a lot of topics, ranging from the historical record of …
Welcome to the Course
Welcome to this course on Decolonising Education: From Theory to Practice. In this video, we introduce the course as a whole, but concentrate on what you might expect in week …
Global Perspectives on Decolonisation
Decolonisation is often a misunderstood and sometimes a contested word. To get a better sense of what it entails, and why it is important especially in education, we asked a …
Decoloniality and the Law: Some thoughts on how to proceed with Dr Foluke Adebisi
A decolonial approach to legal education – teaching, learning and research – must go beyond focusing on tinkering around the edges of the content of the curriculum of law schools, …
Week two summary
Welcome to the end of week two! Over the course of this week we have explored what it may look like to decolonise a range of social science disciplines. We …
Decentering the European subject and decolonising social science methodologies
In this article, Leon Tikly and Arathi Siprakash look critically at the assumed universal ‘subject’ at the centre of the social sciences and consider what this means for decolonising research …
Meet the Team
Course developers and writers We are very excited to welcome you to this course. We are a group of academics drawn from across subject disciplines in the University of Bristol …
Further reading
Bhambra GK, Gebrial D, Nişancıoğlu K. Introduction: decolonising the university? In: Bhambra GK, Gebrial D, Nişancıoğlu K, editors. Decolonising the university [Internet]. London: Pluto Press; 2018. Available from: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/25936/1004145.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. Blakemore …
Priorities for decolonising social sciences and law: an interview with Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Here Professor de Sousa Santos reflects on overall priorities for decolonising social sciences and law.
Decolonising across the Sociology, Politics and International Studies Curriculum: A whole school approach
This summer, following renewed and intensified global demands for universities to decolonise, students within the University of Bristol’s School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) took steps to start …
Case study: Decolonising Sociology, Politics and International Studies
The video is an interview with Dr Elspeth van Veeren, Lauren Hutfield and Evelyn Miller from the School of Sociology, Politics and International Relations (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol. …
Connected Sociologies: an interview with Professor Gurminder Bhambra
In this video Professor Gurminder Bhambra discusses the colonial foundations of the discipline of sociology and how we might work towards new concepts, categories and political strategies for a reparative …
Decolonising the University as an Institution
In this video, Professor Judith Squires, Provost of the University of Bristol talks to Professor Alvin Birdi (one of the lead educators for Week 2 of this course) about the …
Colonialism and Education
In this video Professor Leon Tikly (one of the lead educators on Week 2 of this course) interviews Professor Boeventura de Sousa Santos. Professor de Sousa Santos talks about the …