Higher education’s complicity in continued colonialism

[Last updated: 28 April 2024 13:55 GMT+2 to add this brilliant article exposing the settler colonial logics of Israel and its impact on the social-ecology of Palestine and her peoples] I participated in an online webinar last week, organised by the UK Research Integrity Office, on 'Decolonised Research Culture and Practice'. I was invited by …

Ponderings on coloniality

I had always known about colonialism, in the tangible, post-colonial sense of being born in Singapore post-Independence from British colonial rule, and having been educated in schools named after the "founder of modern Singapore" (where our houses take the names of various British principals). I never thought much about it beyond a historical fact, perhaps …

Understanding coloniality & decoloniality

There are many pros and cons to doing a PhD (maybe a post for later, but many others have written on this already so not too sure what more I could add), but one thing I've really appreciated is the privilege of being able to engage with other intellectual or activist causes that might not …