Convivial Thinking: Critical | Decolonial | Collaborative

EP 5: A conversation on convivial thinking and critical diversity literacy

This podcats launches a collaboration between the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies and the Convivial Thinking Collective.

We are discussing the particularities and intersections of critical diversity studies and convivial thinking, and go in depth on questions of pedagogies, curriculums, race, gender, development studies, post-development studies and much more.

Speakers: Prof. Melissa Steyn, Dr. William Mpofu, Dr. Hayley McEwen, Dr. Aftab Nasir, Dr. Julia Schöneberg

Host: Dr. Sayan Dey

 

 

EP 4: Decolonizing Decoloniality: De-metaphorization and Praxis

Prof. Roberto D. Hernandez in conversation with Sayan Dey

As we are engaging with the ideologies of decolonization and decoloniality, one major challenge  is the metaphorization of these ideologies. In other words, like postcoloniality, decolonization and decoloniality is becoming more of a theoretical construct rather praxis, and is gradually hijacked by Colonial/Western and Colonialized/Westernized patterns of thinking and doing. Why?

EP3: Reimagining Solidarity: Navigating Through the Fissures in Times of Crisis

The existing world crisis is not only the result of COVID-19. We can no longer ignore the fact that there are structural problems. From different continents, we talk in polylogue from our experiences on how to re-think, re-exist and reimagine solidarity in these critical times. With brief interventions by Lata Narayanaswamy, Juan Fernando Larco and Sayan Dey.

 

EP2: Jazz, Hip Hop, Blues and Anti-Black Racism: Turning towards Decolonial Aesthetics

Prof. Lewis Gordon in conversation with Sayan Dey

Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano) who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University. He is currently working as a Professor in the University of Connecticut and is actively associated with the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, Gujarat.

EP1: Social Anthropology, Ecological Consciousness, Gender and Decoloniality

Sayan Dey in conversation with Prof Diana Fox, Bridgewater University.
How do questions of anthropology interact with decoloniality? What are the ways through which one can try to incorporate decolonial aspects of thinking and doing within regular engagements in anthropological research? How can we bring scholarly activism to the classroom?