Radhika Natarajan argues that the work of decolonisation is to ‘address the relationship between the forms of knowledge we value in the classroom and the inequities and violence that exist on our campuses and in the world.’
Tag: higher education
What does it mean to decolonise History teaching and research at SOAS?
Decolonising History teaching and research at SOAS, a London based institution that uniquely teaches only non-Western histories requires an approach that is non-eurocentric but at the same time ensures that local communities and organisations are active partners in knowledge production and dissemination.
“Never in the Presence of Any Woman”: Male Homoeroticism and Elite Education
If you were the president of a higher education institution, would you accept a substantial donation to endow a professorship on the condition that you also construct a tunnel between the professor’s lodgings and student accommodation? This is precisely the bargain that Thomas Case, the president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1904 to 1924, made with an American antiquities dealer, Edward Perry Warren.
Remembering 1968: The Campus of the Anti-University of London
Oisín Wall on the Anti-University at 49 Rivington Street for our Remembering 1968 feature.
Picket Line Perspectives – Part IV: More Than a ‘Lecturers’ Strike’
In the final part of our series on the UCU pensions dispute, two members of university staff reflect on higher education hierarchies, media portrayals of striking workers, and the implications for non-teaching staff members.
Picket Line Perspectives – Part III: ‘Solidarity Forever’
On the final day of a fourteen day strike across UK universities against cuts to pensions, four historians discuss camaraderie, solidarity and picket line poetry, and consider how to build on the achievements of the past four weeks.
Picket Line Perspectives – Part II: ‘Courage grows from a wound’
As students occupy and vice-chancellors U-turn during a 14-day strike across UK universities against cuts to pensions, 6 lecturers, professors, and undergraduates share strike stories of exploitation, marketisation, and mobilisation.
The Brexit Divide and Academic Freedom
Kevin Featherstone on academic freedom and the ‘McCarthyite’ character of a Tory MP’s letter asking for the names of university lecturers teaching about Brexit.
Episode 1: Precarious Working Conditions in the University
Six scholars in the early stages of their careers gather to discuss a big problem plaguing higher education in our very first episode.
History to be Axed at London Metropolitan University
Reactions to news that history and other arts and humanities subjects are to be axed at the London Metropolitan University (formerly the University of North London and Polytechnic of North London), after having been taught there for over 50 years.
