Overview
Postcolonialism and its aftermath have produced new critical debates that question the accuracy and relevancy of its theoretical constructs, bringing to the fore new concepts in relation to its afterlives around the world. These debates have inspired new concepts emanating from South American and the
Caribbean theorists, such as the ‘coloniality of power’, as popularised by the late sociologist Anibal Quijano; or the ‘theory of decoloniality’, as vigorously advocated by the scholar Walter Mignolo; or the critique of the ‘the over-representation of man’ as introduced by the philosopher Sylvia Wynter, in the context of the ‘coloniality of being’. Panelists will explore and critique these new ideas and constructs in relation to literary, artistic and cultural production.
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Davis, Muriam
Muriam Haleh Davis is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Mignolo, Walter
Walter D. Mignolo’s research focuses on exposing modernity/coloniality as a machine that generates and maintains un-justices (injustices?) and on exploring decolonial ways of delinking from the modernity/coloniality.
Vergés, Françoise
Françoise Vergès' work is trans-disciplinary looking at the fabrication of consent and dissent using decolonial psychoanalysis, visual, sonic and literary elements, and feminist, postcolonial, anticolonial and radical theories.
Lalu, Premesh
Before joining the Africa Institute in Sharjah in 2022, Professor Lalu was a founding director of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa (2008–2019).