Category: Website

Palestine: Spaces and Politics

By Arab Urbanism (Dena Qaddumi, Nadi Abusaada , Majd Al-Shihabi , Ammar Azzouz , Samia Henni , Lana Judeh , Faiq Mari, Aya Nassar, and Omar Jabary Salamanca).

Palestine: Spaces and Politics (PSP) is an open-access project that offers resources for education and research on Palestine’s built and natural environments through a critical lens. This initiative is a response to the growing demand for grounded academic resources on Palestine that offer depth and context beyond immediate colonial destruction. 

The PSP Introductory Curriculum positions Palestine as a complex space inhabited by people who are producers of its own knowledge, rather than a mere object on which perpetual violence is inflicted. It situates Palestine as a conceptual site to reconsider core ideas in the fields of architecture, geography, urbanism, and planning. Particularly, by foregrounding Palestinian voices and perspectives, PSP presents substantive and vivid understandings of Palestine’s past, present, and potential futures. Ultimately, the curriculum considers Palestine as imperative for analyzing the critical intersections of spaces and politics at large. 

The bilingual curriculum comprises several themes that include an opening text, key questions, key cases, and open-access readings. We also provide further readings and audiovisual material and have aimed to include resources useful for both academic and non-academic users.

Access their site here.

MAP: Museum of Art & Photography

Located in Bangalore, India.

MAP is home to a growing collection of paintings, sculptures, textiles, photographs, popular culture, and more dating from the 10th century to the present day. The museum spans six storeys and includes art galleries, digital experience centres, and a dedicated research and conservation lab. MAP is a melting pot of ideas, stories and cultural exchange where we hope to encourage humanity, empathy, and a deeper understanding of the world we live in, through art.

As South India’s first major private art museum, MAP wants to help recognise the transformative power of the arts! It brims with ideas and conversations that enable cultural exchanges between our several communities. MAP inspires people to interact with art in ways that encourage humanity, empathy, and a deeper understanding of the world in which we live.

With a lot of materials published and accessible online, you can engage with the art through online exhibitions from wherever you are.

Access the museum website here.

Ashish Kothari

Image: By A. Kothari, “A touching moment with a Bonnet macaque baby”, Athirapally Falls, Kerala, Nov 2023.

Ashish Kothari is, in his words, “an Indian environmentalist working on development”, passionate about the environment and wildlife. In 1978-79, he helped found Kalpavriksh, a non-profit organisation in India which deals with environmental and development issues. From that time onwards, he has been associated with peoples’ movements like Narmada Bachao Andolan and Beej Bachao Andolan. He also helps coordinate national and global networks like Vikalp Sangam and Global Tapestry of Alternatives, and has been a member of different international commissions on environmental protection.

Kothari is the author/co-author and co-editor of about 30 books, and writer/co-writer of about 600 articles, most of which are available on his blog. He worked on a plethora of topics, including biodiversity, energy and climate, education, COVID-19, and social justice – complementing them with a wide range of artworks.

Explore Kothari’s works on his blog here.

Symptomspeak: Women’s Struggle for History and Health in Post-War Kosovo

By Hanna Kienzler

Can we feel the pain of others? How does pain connect and reach across histories, gendered realities, and social politics? How is illness shaped by context, and what kind of life worlds rise from it? Symptomspeak explores these questions among women in Kosovo and discovered a unique symptomatic language through which they communicate their pain and suffering about the Kosovo War and post-war hardships. Dr. Kienzler calls this language Symptomspeak.

Through her posts, she explores three main themes: Remembering War and Hardship; Speaking through Pain; Realms of Healing.

Discover her blog here.

Decolonizing Thought and Action – and Higher Education

By Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative

Explore here the module which forms part of a toolkit, with several activities, videos, and questions.

How do we reorient ourselves away from the idea that communities that are not attached to the university don’t have cultural wealth, or knowledge to bear? How do we disrupt this notion, and participate in a practice of decolonization by recognizing the distorted relationships that exist as a result of colonization and colonialism? What does it mean to engage with decolonization in community-based inquiry and engagement? What is the significance of this engagement to how the concept of global citizenship is used and understood?

Decolonial subversions

Decolonial subversions is a radically, innovative, multilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed platform for the expression of historically silenced knowledge systems. It is commited to decentring western epistemology in the humanities and social sciences.

The platform seeks to minimise the reproduction of publishing practices that perpetuate inequalities in the global production and distribution of knowledge. It is a platform for the creation and dissemination of written, acoustic and visual knowledge from the margins.

As another way of decentring western epistemology and diversifying knowledge-making, authors are encouraged to submit their contributions in local languages, where an English version can also be provided, or to translate contributions in English into local languages as pertinent to the communities of research.

Journey into their 2023 Special Issue here.

Decolonize Palestine

Journey into the site here.

This website is a collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine. Resources spanning from introductory articles on Palestine, a myths database, Palestine reading lists to FAQs on Palestine. This project is an independent and self-funded project founded by two Palestinians living in Ramallah.

Anti-colonial Research Library

Journey into the library here.

The Library holds a collection of open-access articles and books, websites, and YouTube videos on Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. If you are looking for practical examples from different parts of the world and want to know more about these research methodologies, this site holds resources.

With funding from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. This Library is led by Caroline Lenette and with assistance from Joanna Brooke and Sala-O-Vea Walter.

Most of the resources and practices brought together on the site refer to decolonising research, a phrase widely used in academia. They refer to anti-colonial practices to avoid weakening the emancipatory intent of decolonisation as the ongoing fight for returning land to First Nations peoples and revaluing Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.

Decolonial Dialogues

Decolonial Dialogues was established by a small group of researchers primarily based in the United Kingdom. However, many of them also have additional research affiliations, diaspora connections, ancestral ties and other cultural links to Algeria, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Pakistan, Trinidad and Tobago and the USA.

It is their hope that the embryonic shared space will be shaped by a much broader network of creative ideas and critical perspectives, expressed and advanced via a growing group of new contributors and co-moderators.

A shared space for exchanging and advancing ideas and information about decolonising [decolonizing] knowledge – through activism, research, inclusive teaching and learning and creativity...

Journey into the site here.

The Anti-Racist Curriculum Project Guide

By working group members of the Anti-Racist Curriculum (ARC) project

The content ranges from briefings and overviews, provocation pieces with self-reflection, short films and visual sketches, outlines for workshops, and templates for planning to offer varying ways for colleagues to engage. Taken as a whole the ‘Guide’ resources have been built in sequential order for individuals/organisations to progress through their own personal and collective development via three levels: Foundations, Learning & reflecting, and planning & doing.

The Guide resources can be found here.

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