The struggle to decolonize was and continues to be intimately linked to questions and practices of education, teaching, and consciousness-raising. While scholars have generatively traced how colonialism relied on grammars and hierarchies of knowledge production and dissemination, in this workshop we ask: How did decolonization – as a response and reckoning with colonialism and its forms of knowledge – hinge on (re)figuring new forms of knowing and subjecthood? Did the institutionalization of new knowledge practices linked to decolonization in academic and non-academic contexts innovate or reproduce old pathways and thereby create neocolonial legacies?

Departing from and building on our first workshop that explored the archival practices and politics of decolonization, our second workshop interrogates decolonization and the forms of knowledge it spurred across four interrelated axes:

• Histories: Explore historically the intersection between decolonization and education (literacy programs, professional training programs for new ‘cadres’ and elites, efforts of consciousness-raising, alternative study circles, etc.) across the long twentieth century.
• Pedagogies: Interrogate the politics and thought behind movements that mobilized pedagogical practices in their struggle to decolonize.
• Methods: Engage with multi-media methods (archival, digital, oral, public) and sources (textual, material, visual) in unearthing, teaching, and learning the histories and legacies of decolonization.
• Praxis: Make public through discussion, collaboration, and experiment the manifold and diverse ways in which we engage with decolonization and its forms of knowledge.

This workshop will close with a public plenary roundtable. For more information and to register your attendance for the closing plenary, please visit its separate event page, here.

Please see the full workshop programme, here.

This workshop is organised by Atwa Jaber, Nicolas Hafner, and Devarya Srivastava and co-hosted by the Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism and the International History and Politics Department at the Geneva Graduate Institute.