About Us

Mission Statement

We are an interdisciplinary and intercultural initiative, based in Copenhagen, critically engaged with theories and practices of decolonization. Our work focuses on creating a space for reflection, discussion and learning about the colonial structures that shape our institutions, knowledge systems, and everyday lives. Through awareness-raising and resource-sharing, we seek to challenge dominant narratives. We are still in the middle of our learning process—we do not claim expertise but approach this work with curiosity, and a commitment to growth. With critical allyship at the core of our work, the collective is open to scholars, students, activists, and practitioners in any field of knowledge, who want to create a space where we can collectively imagine a decolonial future.

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Our Story

As students and young professionals, we aspire to change the world with our curiosity. However, the current structures of science and practice in the Global Minority World build upon colonial legacies and uphold existing power imbalances and inequalities.

As students, we have become more and more angry with how the fields we practice are infiltrated by power abuse, neocolonial pressures and performative actions. Decolonisation has become a buzzword; through elite capture, the word has become co-opted to something performative and trendy, instead of something that creates radical change in the hegemonic power hierarchies we currently participate in.

Why does academia continue to operate within these harmful frameworks? Why have disciplines resisted the changes that will bring about equity?

We as new generation of students and young professionals want to do better.
We want to learn how to construct truly equitable partnerships and build decolonial futures. We want to see this mirrored into our future curricula, employment opportunities and political systems.

This platform is also a call for any student or professional to become or stay active.

You have the right to protest your own learnings, your own institutions and your own political systems.

In solidarity,

The Copenhagen Decolonization Collective

Want to get involved?

We are a horizontal, democratic, inclusive association, ran by volunteers.

To members

- Active membership-

Currently, we invite everyone interested to participate in our Decolonization Reading Course. Upon the completion of this course, you will be invited to participate in our initiative. If you have participated in a similar training, feel free to write to decolonizingglobalhealth@gmail.com and we can explore the possibilities.

- Passive membership-

If you want to join our community, we invite you to visit our Community page to read more, or follow this link. As a passive member, you will not actively organise for the CDC. Rather, you show solidarity to our initiative. Upon request, you might be invited to review/collaborate in our projects, and you will receive our

We are open to any person from any race, sexuality, gender, age, nationality, or class. We encourage our new members to browse the resources on our website, and read some of the articles from our reading course.

To organisations

We are open to collaborate with organisation. We are open to co-host talks or co-write, or support/ participate in other projects. Currently we have no funding available to financially support other initiatives. Upon request, we are also open to host workshops or talks, depending if we fit the topic suitable to our knowledge base.

If you have any feedback on the work we do, also please reach out.

We are always looking for ways to improve.

For any questions or requests, please reach out to decolonizingglobalhealth@gmail.com.