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Decolonisation in theory and practice: Reading and resources
The readings and resources below provide a critical foundation from which to approach decolonisation within higher education (HE).
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Whether you are new to decolonising work, unsure about its relevance to your field or already deeply invested, there is always scope for developing a deeper understanding of the key concepts, texts, debates and politics of decolonisation.
Although far from exhaustive, the readings and resources listed below provide a critical foundation from which to approach decolonisation within and beyond the context of higher education.
So far, we have focused on online resources, books and special issues, rather than individual journal articles. However, these pages are being continually developed and updated, and will also include discipline-specific recommendations in time.
Download the list in full: Decolonisation - Recommended reading and resources (PDF, 0.5MB)
If you would like to recommend any readings or resources, please follow the link under 'Get Involved', below. York St John staff and students can also explore some of the texts in more depth by joining our Discussing Decolonisation Reading Group.
Decolonisation in world history, theory and politics
Decolonisation in higher education
Exploring decolonisation through media and culture
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Book of the Month
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By Kate Crawford
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award‑winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth to the labor pulled from low-wage information workers to the data taken from every action and expression. Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequity. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a material and political perspective on what it takes to make AI and how it centralizes power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.
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Film of the Month
Neptune Frost
Directed by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, 2021, 1h 45m
'Set in Rwanda, Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist musical film that follows coltan mine workers who escape and meet other outcasts to find a community in an abandoned village named Digitaria. They proceed to form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective, in an attempt to overthrow the authoritarian regime that is exploiting the region’s natural resources and its people.' (Dushime Uwonkunda Sylvie, 2023)
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Join our reading group
York St John staff and students can also explore and discuss some of the key texts below by joining our Discussing Decolonisation Reading Group.
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Attend an event in our Discussing Decolonisation public event series, hosted by the Teaching and Learning Enhancement team.
