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Decolonising disciplines past and present: Disciplinary histories and the experience of the end of empire in Africa
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School of Built Environment and Development Studies

  Invites you to a seminar by

 Dr Ruth Craggs

 

Title: Decolonising disciplines past and present: Disciplinary histories and the experience of the end of empire in Africa, 1948-1998.

 Date: 29 October 2019

 Time: 13h00 – 14h00

 Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 8, Shepstone Building

Howard College

  

Abstract

This seminar discusses Ruth’s current research project - Decolonising Geography? (with Hannah Neate) which focuses on academic geographers (including those involved in development projects) and processes of decolonisation and post-colonial development in several African countries which were formerly part of the British empire. Whilst geography and development studies' relations with the imperial project have been well documented, accounts have tended to end in the early twentieth century rather than continuing to examine the period of formal decolonisation itself. Similarly, urgent debates about decolonising disciplines and the university now (across Africa and in the UK) often overlook the struggles of earlier generations of academics to decolonise their research, teaching and working conditions in the mid-late twentieth century. The paper takes an approach grounded in academic labour and practice, rather than purely focusing on research and publication, and draws on completed archival and oral history research in Ghana and Nigeria, and new work reflecting on experiences in South Africa to explore the experiences of these earlier generations. It will conclude by considering how these earlier experiences of ‘decolonising disciplines’ in the 1960s, 70s and 80s might inform current debates about the state of geography and development studies, and the wider university, today.

Author bio

Ruth Craggs lectures in Human Geography at King’s College London, and is editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers book series (which she is happy to discuss with potential authors). Her work focuses on decolonisation, post-colonial geopolitics and the modern Commonwealth, and disciplinary histories. 

 

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