Short Abstract:

Debates about decolonizing anthropology and ethnology have proliferated. We ask how decolonial pedagogies can advance this project of decolonizing anthropology while engaging with our students. We are interested in unwriting hegemonic teaching and rewriting the pedagogic practice of ethnography.

Long Abstract:

Debates about decolonizing anthropology and ethnology have proliferated over the last decade. We ask how classroom practices and decolonial pedagogies advance the project of decolonizing anthropology not only in our research and theory-making, but while engaging with and for our students. Within anthropology, particular focus has been placed on the teaching of and with ethnography as writing. We are interested in unwriting hegemonic teaching and rewriting the pedagogic practice of ethnography.

We invite scholars to our panel+workshop event to choose the best way they wish to interact with our theme:

Within the panel, traditional paper presentations may be proposed that tackle one or more of the following questions:

-how could our teaching work towards decolonizing anthropology & ethnology?

-what pedagogic principles, tools, methods can we use to unwrite the hegemonic canon?

-(how) is it possible to unwrite the coloniality of anthropology in our current context?

-how could our teaching rewrite the discipline in decolonial ways?

-what conundrums arise when applying decolonial pedagogies within neoliberal academia?

-what are the ambiguities of decolonial pedagogies?

Within the workshop, participants may propose interactive sessions of 15 min in which they can exemplify a pedagogic practice that they applied with the aim of decolonizing anthropology/ethnology. How did you unwrite the syllabus? How did you rewrite our discipline? What challenges do you face while engaging with such decolonial pedagogic practices? Sessions may also have productive aims; for example, participants may propose collective brainstorming moments on particular aspects of decolonial teaching, or other multimedia and interactive formats.

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