About
While we hear the word "decolonial" appearing across the academic and museum worlds, the moral charge of the word and the idea itself often overrides concrete methods of analyses.Sanjukta Sunderason
Three key fields
Decolonial Futures identifies three key fields which have each been shaped by colonial histories and knowledge formations and require further interdisciplinary research towards their decolonial transformation:
- museums, archives, and cultural practices;
- migrations, mobility, and borders;
- ecology, sustainability, and climate change.
As the RPA progresses, it will encourage dialogue across these themes – through events, seed grants, research/dialogue forums, and visiting scholar programmes.
The RPA aims to bring together UvA staff, PhD candidates, and students from the above-mentioned faculties and other faculties, as well as public and (para)institutional communities that are interested in or have been having similar conversations around the decolonial as method – academic as much as institutional and social.
Coordinators
Decolonial Futures is coordinated by three researchers from the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Faculty of Law.