Decolonial Methods Workshop St Andrews Staff and PhD Researchers - One Day Event

We invite you to join our first postcolonial methods workshop. Postcolonial, decolonial and anticolonial research (and their associated methodologies) aims to broaden our understandings of the colonial dynamics in our societies, politics, culture, and more. This research recognises the way in which are our day-to-day lives are intertwined with colonialism and imperialism, and seek to bring to the fore knowledge and epistemologies that have been traditionally marginalised within academia. Moreover, academic research (and the university as an institution) have long been central to reproducing the dominance of colonialism and imperialism, and it is through alternative and expository narratives and research that we can reckon with the coloniality of research. Traditionally, IR and other disciplines have prioritised theories that do not consider race or structural exclusion. However, postcolonial research has historically sought to highlight global structures of domination, the roots of epistemological and ontological inequality, and their current forms. Moreover, it highlights the stories, knowledge, discourses, and practices that are erased by colonialism, in order to further an emancipatory purpose.