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Decolonisation

This page contains some introductory resources to decolonization. From more classic texts, to newer perspectives, we have tried to compose a list of resources that is accessible for both newer and older allies. 

The resources are a combination of foundational anti-colonial thinkers, postcolonial thinkers and decolonial thinkers.

This list is ever-evolving, and will be continuously updated.

If you have any relevant resources you want to share, please reach out to decolonizingglobalhealth@gmail.com

Resources

  • Bhabha, H.K. (1994) The Location of Culture. 

    • In a dazzling series of interdisciplinary essays he explaisn why the culture of Western modernity must be relocated fro the postcolonial perspective. He sets out the conceptual impertive and the political consistency of a postcolonial intellectual project. ​

  • Spivak, G.C. (1988). Can the Subaltern Speak?

    • ​Explores how the voices of the colonized are often silenced or distorted by dominant narratives.

Articles

Books (classics)

Books (contemporary)

  • Mignolo, W. (2011). The Darker Side of Western Modernity

    • ​Talks about “epistemic disobedience” and the need to delink from Eurocentric ways of knowing.

  • Lugones, M. (2010). Toward a Decolonial Feminism. 

    • ​Incredible work on intersectionality, gender, race, and coloniality from a Latin American feminist lens.

  • Quijana, A. (2000). Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism,and Latin America

    • ​ntroduced the idea of "coloniality" as a long-lasting structure of power beyond colonial administrations.

  • Wynter, S. (2017). Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument 

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