REPORT ON THE WORKSHOP SERIES
This report reflects on the ‘Decolonial Chats’ workshop series. The report opens with a brief overview of the series, including our objectives and workshop details. We then go on to discuss four key interconnected themes that arose from across the workshop series; firstly, the complex geographies of decolonisation, secondly the importance of language in the decolonial context, thirdly the importance of an ethics of care in response to ongoing coloniality, and finally the (im)possibilities of system change. The report concludes with our final reflections from the organising and participating in the workshop series.
Workshop series organisers and authors of this report:
Inge Boudewijn, Bianca Fadel, Sarah Peck and Benita Siloko
Workshop series speakers:
Nnimmo Bassey, Juana Francis Bone, Roberto Gomes dos Santos, Rolf Malungo de Souza, Moses Okech and Sofia Zaragocin.
Acknowledgements:
With thanks to the Development Studies Association (DSA) for the support and funding that allowed the series to be organised, we would also like to thank the interpreters Nora Ohrenstein, Natalia Prio and Tereza Rae for their work in the bilingual workshops. We thank Jeff Garmany and Melinda Gurr for their support and Owen Boyle, Project Officer in the Centre for International Development at Northumbria University, for his collaboration in the organisation of the workshops.
To cite this report:
Boudewijn, I., Fadel, B., Peck, S. & Siloko, B. (2021). Towards Unlearning Colonialism in Development Research and Practice, ‘Decolonial Chats’ Workshop Series. Northumbria University, UK.
