This is a platform for us to establish a direct dialogue with everyone interested in the Third World in Theory reading group. Here we will post updates about the group’s meetings and information about events we participate in.
Also, the blog is a platform to share reflections about the readings. Every meeting will be followed by a post with a critical analysis of the text discussed, and overall thoughts on the meeting.
We will have ten exciting meetings during the 2019-2020 academic term. The topic of this term’s discussion is Decolonizing – Then and Now. The idea is to debate relevant critical works about the theme, reinforcing the importance of epistemic diversity and of doing research from the colonial difference.
Each meeting will be led a different speaker, who will also mediate the debate. This term we will have an amazing list of academics, activists and professionals presenting their thoughts about key classic anti-imperialist, subaltern, postcolonial, anticolonial and decolonial works. Check the TWT home page to get to know more about the list of readings and speakers for this term. Also check out our flyer below (a very nice contribution from Shailza Sharma)!
Opening the term, Angelica (myself) will be discussing Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism, a very important reading for the Decolonial Community of Argumentation. The idea is to establish some critical links with Maldonado Torres’ On the Coloniality of Being, for a comprehensive analysis of the “colonial subject”. These two works are easily found online.
The TWT reading group is open to all. Anybody interested in joining the group can . Everyone should register before each event via EventBrite on the link in the event’s description. The registration for each event is important for us to accommodate everyone in the best way possible.
The first meeting will be on the 10th of October at the University of Westminster Law School – Little Titchfield Street campus, room 2.14, from 6pm.
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Looking forward to seeing everyone next Thursday!
Angelica
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