We are delighted to release a new episode of our podcast, Decolonising Ideas.
Decolonising Ideas aims to introduce listeners to the theories and practice of decoloniality, explore the breadth of decolonial inquiry occurring at the Institute, and examine how IASH scholarship relates to broader issues of coloniality across the Global South and Global North.
In our latest episode, Research Fellow Dr Simon Buck delves into the University of Edinburgh's historical connections to African enslavement, shedding light on a complex and harrowing aspect of its past. He explores how this history ties into broader efforts of decoloniality within academia, particularly in universities like Edinburgh. Join us as we discuss the confrontation of these legacies and the vital work being done by the Research and Engagement Working Group at the university.
Thinking about how those archives are made, what voices are purposefully left out, what voices are forced to be in there in some cases. That kind of dynamic of power within the archive that comes from the imperial project, from European imperial projects, is a particularly important part of what I do. It's a very difficult part because often your sources are made from those same colonial archives essentially, so it's a bit of a paradox.
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A full transcript of this episode is available to download as a Word document here Simon and Ash Transcript final.docx.To learn more about the Institute Project on Decoloniality, please visit https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/ipd. The episode was produced and presented by Ash Scholz. The theme music is by former Fellow Saber Bamatraf.