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Between Copenhagen and Washington: The Kalaallit Still Wait By Elias Stumpf The climate is getting milder, curiosity is growing. For now, the North Pole remains closer than the nearest McDonald's. Yet in Greenland, beneath the melting ice lies a struggle that reveals how colonial power structures persist, transform, and re-emerge even as they claim to dissolve. Throughout this article, Greenland will be referred to by its Indigenous name, Kalaallit Nunaat (Land of the Kalaall
Elias Stumpf
3 days ago8 min read
Why are the Danish National Elections important from a Decolonial Stance?
I’ve been feeling extremely overwhelmed by the current geopolitical crises. I find myself trying to figure out how to perfectly recycle the multi-material packaging of my vegetarian onigiri, while trying to keep up with the Aljazeera liveblog on the USA-Iran War, while an oil refinery catches fire in Mexico and more gruesome details bubble up from the Epstein Files, only to be suppressed by an item on Jake Paul being endorsed by Donald Trump? (yes, this really happened if yo
Roos van der Velde
4 days ago7 min read
New Imaginaries For Decolonizing The Classroom
By Frances Rosenberg January 28th and 29th I attended the International Festival of Decoloniality , hosted online by the University of Derby. Through presentations and workshops, dozens of us—thinkers and doers from around the globe—explored possibilities of decolonization, in the realm of education primarily (although not exclusively). As we shared and discussed and listened, I found myself thinking more and more about what it would mean to truly decolonize the classroom. Th
Frances Rosenberg
Feb 195 min read
On Decolonial Futures, Chocolate and Bubbles.
By Paraskevi Siamitrou Yesterday, I went to see Yorgos Lanthimos' new movie, Bugonia. Lanthimos seems to be taking upon contemporary issues, and making them absurd, grotesque with a crippling violence. And I understand that this artistic point of view contemplates capitalism, the ruthlessness of it. Citizen and consumer lines are fuzzy. A subjectivity composed of a gruesome Big Other, capital accumulation, signifiers and language attuned to the very big desire: produce, relen
Paraskevi Siamitrou
Jan 314 min read
Decolonizing research methods: A call for anti-racist research practices.
By Alessandra Cuzzolino Modern Western academia, including the humanities and social sciences, is based on the reproduction of colonial systems of knowledge. What counts as knowledge, who is authorised to produce it, and which voices are legitimised within the academic discourse, have historically been shaped by Eurocentric views over ontology – the philosophical study of being – and epistemology – the philosophical study of knowledge. These European perspectives aim to place
Alessandra Cuzzolino
Jan 255 min read
Debt as a Tool of Colonial Power
By Roos van der Velde . This article was written in collaboration with Jana from Debt for Climate . Illustration by Julie M. Elman Coming from the Netherlands, a culture that is uncomfortable -to say the least- with speaking about money, I had learned the complexities of conversations on money and power. Still, debt had always remained a scary topic for me… anything with finances and economics really. We had touched on reparations and wealth in our discussions, however, comfo
Roos van der Velde
Jan 205 min read
Decolonizing Human-Nature Relationships
Written by Frances Rosenberg “…and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’" — Genesis 1:28 Western culture has been built on the foundations of human exceptionalism—a view of nature as separate from and far below the (“right” kind of) human. But where do these foundations come from? And are they universal acro
Frances Rosenberg
Dec 11, 20255 min read
Transimagination: Towards a Collective Methodology for Decolonization
Written by Paraskevi Siamitrou The frequency of the word “reimagine” has skyrocketed in recent years, as visualised below. ( Reimagine, V. Meanings, Etymology and More | Oxford English Dictionary , n.d.) Yet it feels somewhat lukewarm as a word, perhaps because it implies repetition. My mind goes to the repetition of pre-existing epistemologies, the same knowledge systems that led us to this first place of imagination: who imagined the solutions in the beginning? And who pro
Paraskevi Siamitrou
Dec 4, 20253 min read
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