WORKSHOP, 26th June 2013: "Decoloniality: a reflexive workshop on the epistemic, ethical and methodological implications for our research praxis"

Date:
26th June, 2013, 09:00 - 17:30

Deadline for registration:
1st June 2013
 

In short:

• Interactive workshop on the implications and practicability of decolonial research in institutions of the Global North.
• A space to share and exchange individual experiences and consider them as a social and epistemological challenge.
• A space to connect with other researchers.
• Held by Dr. Juliá Suárez Krabbe, coordinator of the Decoloniality Network Europe and part of the research project ALICE, coordinated by Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos.
• Free of cost. Certificate available on request.
  
    

About the workshop

Decoloniality has become an emerging topic in German Social Science. We have observed that academia in the Global North has mostly been engaged in studying decoloniality as a discourse. Our workshop suggests a different focus in asking: What are the implications of practicing decolonial research in the academic environment of a country within the Global North?

This workshop provides a laboratory to explore decoloniality conceived as a research “attitude” focusing on its implications on an epistemological, ethical and methodological level and invites participants to contribute insights from their own research experience.
Together with Dr. Julia Súarez Krabbe we will elaborate on these implications using the conceptual framework of Boaventura Sousa Santos known as Epistemologies of the South (2009), which will serve as a conceptual tool for analyzing our own research experience.

As Sousa Santos describes, dialogical sociology is yet to emerge. Those researchers who have set out to ‘walk the talk’ find themselves confronted with “strange mirrors [and] unsuspected lessons” (ALICE 2011) which this workshop will address. On this basis we will critically reconsider issues which are often perceived as solely individual experiences as a social and epistemological challenge.

Process of Registration

The workshop is limited to 15 participants and will be held in English.
In order to be able to form a quality group, we ask for a short presentation of your motivation to participate in the workshop, and of the research experience you wish to elaborate on.
 

ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSED! For any issue, please contact Anika Meckesheimer.

 
Contact:

Anika Meckesheimer, anika.meckesheimer(at)soziologie.uni-freiburg.de
 

Location of the workshop:

Universität Freiburg,
Liefmann-Haus,
Goethestr. 33,
79098 Freiburg-Wiehre
 

For the schedule and venue map: click here, please!

Basic Readings:

• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2004): "A Critique of Lazy Reason: Against the Waste of Experience", in: Wallerstein, Immanuel (ed.): The Modern World-System in the Longue Durée. Londres: Paradigm Publishers, 157-197 (Available here as PDF).
• Spanish Version: Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2009) “Hacia una sociología de las ausencias y una sociología de las emergencias”, in: Epistemologías del Sur. México: Siglo XXI, ch. 3, 98-159 (available as PDF on request).

About the Organisers:

• Anika Meckesheimer is a PhD candidate at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco in Mexico City. Her academic work is concerned with the practice of knowledge construction between women´s rights activism and academic research. She is a member of the Seminar “Constructing Knowledge from gender, movements and networks” based in Chiapas, México (http://encuentroredtoschiapas.jkopkutik.org/index.php/es/actividades/seminario-sobregenero-movimientos-y-redes).
• Dr. Julia Súarez Krabbe is assistant professor at the Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, Denmark and associated researcher at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
  Dr. Julia Súarez Krabbe is currently involved in the research project “ALICE – Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons” (alice.ces.uc.pt) coordinated by Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos which is financed by the European Research Council (FP/2007-2013).
  She coordinates the Decoloniality Europe network, composed by a majority of southern scholars and activists who work against racism, Islamophobia and coloniality in Europe (http://decolonialityeurope.wix.com/decoloniality
• Ann-Kathrin Krüger is a graduate student in the Global Studies Program and is doing an internship with the project.