Decolonising Research Roundtable

Friday 10 March 2023, 11am - 1pm GMT, online

This network event focused on the topic of decolonising research practices. Speakers included Lara Atkin (Kent), Éadaoin Agnew (Kingston), Nicole King (Oxford), Shazia Jagot and Alexandra Kingston-Rees (York), and the event was convened by the Institute of English Studies.

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11:13:50 From katherine baxter to Everyone:

@DecolDiscipline

www.decolonisingthediscipline.org

11:15:47 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/2704/atkin-lara

11:16:17 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-eacuteadaoin-agnew-580/

11:16:36 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

https://www.decolonisingthediscipline.org/resources

11:25:12 From Joanna Brown to Everyone:

Thank you, Lara.

11:25:34 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

The CFP for the Victorian Studies symposium:

11:25:42 From Liz Oakley-Brown [she/her/hers] to Everyone:

Many thanks Lara

11:26:26 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

The references in my presentation: Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, ‘Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor’, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society 1:1 (2012), pp.1-40.

11:26:40 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-227/feature-evelyn-araluen/

11:36:00 From Liz Oakley-Brown [she/her/hers] to Everyone:

Many thanks to you too Éadaoin

11:47:30 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

That book is a really profound and deep provocation to the deepest assumptions underlying what constitutes academic knowledge. I highly recommend it.

11:47:45 From Liz Oakley-Brown [she/her/hers] to Everyone:

Julietta Singh (2018) https://www.dukeupress.edu/unthinking-mastery

11:47:59 From Shazia Jagot to Everyone:

Thanks!

11:48:14 From Lindy Newns to Everyone:

Can you repeat the author name, please. And this co-research idea sounds like the way to go.

11:48:23 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

Julietta Singh

11:48:50 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

Also, if you don’t know it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decolonizing-Methodologies-Research-Indigenous-Peoples/dp/1848139500

11:51:04 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at Kent: https://research.kent.ac.uk/centreforindigenousandsettlercolonialstudies/research/

11:53:15 From Lindy Newns to Everyone:

Found it in open access via Manchester University Library

12:02:07 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

I hear you Eadaoin, and it's definitely not a post-92 problem

12:02:15 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

Agreed

12:06:05 From Liz Oakley-Brown [she/her/hers] to Everyone:

Terrific provocations and conversation. Thank you very much

12:06:29 From Yugin Teo to Everyone:

Thank you!

12:06:42 From Sarah Pyke to Everyone:

Thank you all, great discussion so far

12:14:25 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

https://www.york.ac.uk/english/our-staff/shaziajagot/

12:14:41 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

https://www.york.ac.uk/english/our-staff/alexandrakingston-reese/

12:15:11 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

Dr Nicole King - Exeter College (ox.ac.uk)

12:15:35 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/people/nicole-king/

12:16:09 From Sarah Pyke to Everyone:

https://maifeminism.com/where-do-you-know-from-an-exercise-in-placing-ourselves-together-in-the-classroom/

12:22:52 From Liz Oakley-Brown [she/her/hers] to Everyone:

cf Shazia Jagot's fab related article "Chaucer and Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen): Perspectiva, Arabic Mathematics, and Acts of Looking." Studies in the Age of Chaucer, vol. 44, 2022, p. 27-61. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/sac.2022.0029.

12:26:56 From Shazia Jagot to Everyone:

Thanks for sharing, Liz!

12:32:13 From Liz Oakley-Brown [she/her/hers] to Everyone:

Thanks so much Alexandra- great to think about form

12:32:27 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

I like epistemic deconstruction - much better word than decolonisation 🙂

12:35:10 From Alexandra Kingston-Reese to Everyone:

Thank you! I think I do, too.

12:35:42 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

Really great questions about languages and written forms raised by both of you, Alexandra and Shazia

12:39:27 From Sarah Pyke to Everyone:

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12:42:05 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

There's a brilliant passage in Tyler Stovall’s book White Freedom discussing how the liberal model of the 'free' and sovereign individual was articulated in relation to a racialized characterization of childhood.

12:42:23 From helialopezzarzosa to Everyone:

Lara: given that you prefer ‘epistemic deconstruction’ what do you think of the term epistemicide and the work associated with it? (Boaventura de Santos). Thanks

12:42:52 From Liz Oakley-Brown [she/her/hers] to Everyone:

Thanks very much indeed

12:43:22 From Joanna Kazik (she/her) to Everyone:

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12:46:47 From Nicole King to Everyone:

Thanks for that Stovall reference @Anshuman

12:48:27 From Anshuman Mondal to Everyone:

No problem, Nicole. It's a really interesting book.

12:49:09 From Elizabeth Elliott to Everyone:

Thank you so much to all the speakers and organisers - this has been a really valuable and thought-provoking event. Glad I could be here and sorry to have to leave now.

12:49:10 From Clare Lees to Everyone:

Great papers thank you. And great comments, Shazia, about which places and spaces get centred. Periods and times too. I’ve always thought that the 10th and 11th centuries are fascinating once you de-center ‘England’, which was barely a linguistic concept then even to the ‘English’

12:51:28 From Joanna Kazik (she/her) to Everyone:

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12:52:38 From Shazia Jagot to Everyone:

Thank you, and yes!

12:53:34 From Liz Oakley-Brown [she/her/hers] to Everyone:

This has been a brilliant event. I've learned so much from everyone. Thank you very much indeed [apologies- need to leave for a 1pm meeting]

12:53:34 From Alexandra Kingston-Reese to Everyone:

Lara: given that you prefer ‘epistemic deconstruction’ what do you think of the term epistemicide and the work associated with it? (Boaventura de Santos). Thanks

Just responding to a comment higher up in the chat, I think the difference for me here is that there is a distinction between destruction of knowledge (epistemicide) and deconstruction, right? The latter is not about obliteration or death, but conversely about understanding and complicating the practices and methods, as well as illuminating the power structures of who is allowed to know and how they are allowed to know it.

12:55:53 From helialopezzarzosa to Everyone:

Thank you Lara, spot on

12:56:02 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

Alexandra there

12:56:09 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

I didn’t say anything that clever

12:59:11 From eadaoin to Everyone:

It’s been so great to think across and through languages, forms, methodologies, temporalities - thank you everyone

12:59:43 From Mathelinda Nabugodi to Everyone:

Thank you for fantastic provocations. So much to think about. Need to dash off to the next meeting.

13:00:23 From Shazia Jagot to Everyone:

Thanks everyone - I have to go and teach now!

13:01:16 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

Translation and or (non)translatability

13:01:25 From Joanna Kazik (she/her) to Everyone:

Thank you very much for a thought-provoking roundtable.

13:03:38 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

Particularly difficult to imagine when our discipline(s) are under seige

13:03:45 From Sarah Pyke to Everyone:

Yes! Going to read Singh now

13:03:53 From helialopezzarzosa to Everyone:

Thank you for organising such an interesting session!

13:04:03 From Lara Atkin to Everyone:

Thank you everyone - made so many notes!

13:04:05 From Magda Oldziejewska to Everyone:

Thank you for sharing everyone!

13:04:16 From Shodona Kettle to Everyone:

Thank you all

13:04:29 From Yugin Teo to Everyone:

Thank you very much - it’s been a very stimulating event

13:04:39 From Alexandra Kingston-Reese to Everyone:

Thanks for coming everyone!