Tag: Anticolonial

The Wretched of the Earth

By Frantz Fanon

Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since, analysing the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom. With power and anger, Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It was Fanon, himself a psychotherapist, who exposed the connection between colonial war and mental disease, who showed how the fight for freedom must be combined with building a national culture, and who showed the way ahead, through revolutionary violence, to socialism.

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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.

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