Courageous Conversations: January 20
Decolonizing Disciplines and Structures of Inequality
About the speakers
Dr. Gurminder K Bhambra is a Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the British Sociological Association (2022-25).
She is the author of Colonialism and Modern Social Theory (2021) with John Holmwood, Connected Sociologies (2014), and the award-winning Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (2007). She is also co-editor of Decolonising the University (2018) and runs the Global Social Theory site, is editor of Discover Society, and directs the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project.
Dr. Yolande Bouka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner whose research and teaching focus on gender, violence, decoloniality, race and international relations, and African affairs.
The key questions driving her multidisciplinary research agenda are how vulnerable groups understand and navigate structural and political violence and how these experiences influence the post-conflict social and political landscapes.
Her research has received support from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the American Association of University Women, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Blessing
Oki nistowaok Sipiyanatohkomia”ki.
Elder Colleen Sitting Eagle is the Siksika Language Instructor at Siksika Outreach School located in Siksika Nation since 2009.
Previously, Colleen worked as a researcher with Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park. She has worked with Siksika culture and heritage since 1992. Colleen learned her Siksika history from her late parents and the honour of working with knowledgeable elders.
She was one of the first groups from Siksika to be integrated to start her schooling in Strathmore, AB. She previously attended and continues to take courses from the University of Calgary. She is the proud mother of three children and eight grandchildren.
Additional readings and accessible materials from January's presentation
Dr. Gurminder K. Bhambra
- Website: https://gkbhambra.net/
- Public Writing
- Articles
- Bhambra, Gurminder K. 2021. ‘Decolonizing Critical Theory? Epistemological Justice, Progress, Reparations’ Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory. April 4 (1): 73-89
- Bhambra, Gurminder K. 2021. ‘Colonial Global Economy: Towards a Theoretical Reorientation of Political Economy’ Review of International Political Economy. 2021 28 (2): 307-322
- Bhambra, Gurminder K. 2014. Connected Sociologies. London: Bloomsbury Academic
Dr. Yolande Bouka
- Website: https://yolandebouka.com/about/
- Wakanda, Afrofuturism, and Decolonizing International Relations Scholarship
- Yacob-Haliso, O., & Falola, T. (2021). The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies (1st ed. 2021 ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. Women, Colonial Resistance and Decolonisation: Challenging African Histories. (2021).
- Wadhwa, S., & Retnakaran, D. (2020). Barriers and Enablers to Women’s Participation in the Workforce: A Case Study from India. Review of Market Integration, 12(3), 114–138.