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Decoloniality Europe – Audiovisual resources

Decoloniality Europe is a network concerned with fomenting communication, discussion and collaboration between scholars and/or activists whose work revolves around criticising coloniality and working towards decoloniality in Europe.

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Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism

Historicization of Biopolitics and Forensics of Politics, Art, and Life
Marina Gržinić and Šefik Tatlić
Lexington books, 2014

This book argues that necropolitics are a dominant, yet obscene, form of politics that sustains contemporary racism (racialization) as a primal ideology of global capitalism and connects globalization and its modernist narratives directly with colonialism. The book is important for those—and this means almost all of us—working with relations of modes of life and global capitalism and with articulations of political and epistemological principles onto which capitalism organizes its reproduction […]

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#FronterasInvisibles 2014

l’Homenatge a les persones mortes a causa de fronteres, visibles i invisibles

La Mediterrània és un cementiri. Acció de Tanquem els CIEs, simulant amb creus, cartells i altres símbols un cementiri on es veuen les cares de persones que han patit per entrar a l’Europa Fortalesa o bé han mort pel camí. Instal·lació i informació, 3 d’agost, 2014, 9h-21h, Platja de Bogatell, Barcelona.

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documentary video > Archives of the Non-Racial: A Mobile Workshop

This documentary video recollects some of the statements by the participants of the JWTC mobile workshop during our travel through South Africa, on the importance of speaking about archives of the non-racial in relation to our political struggles for social change.

Alexandre (Sasha) White, Sarah Godsell, Kelly Gillespie, Roberta Estrela D’Alva, Angela Davis, Jorge A. Campos-Tellez, Jess Auerbach, Josslyn Luckett, Achille Mbembe, Tamara Levitz, Ayana Smythe, David Theo Goldberg, Federico Navarrete, Ruha Benjamin, Ghassan Hage, Zen Marie, James McMillan, Kirk B. Sides, Tjasa Kancler

Music by Neo Muyanga, performed at the Steve Biko Centre, Ginsberg.

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Why isn’t my professor black? UCL panel discussion

There are just 85 black professors out of 18,510 in the UK and the number has barely changed in eight years…

Speakers:
Professor Michael Arthur, Chair, UCL President and Provost
Dr William Ackah, Panel Member, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Lisa Amanda Palmer, Panel Member, Newman University
Dr Shirley Tate, Panel Member, University of Leeds
Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias, Panel Member, UCL
Deborah Gabriel, Panel Member, Founder and CEO of Black British Academics