The Institute proudly announces the 30th in our Occasional Papers series. Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 2 is the second collection of essays to emerge from the Institute Project on Decoloniality. This new volume includes essays by former Fellows Dr Peter S. Henne, Dr Asha Varadharajan, Professor Anthony Neal, Dr Shakeel Anjum, Dr Thomas Metcalf, Dr Erika De Vivo, Dr Simon Buck, Dr Paul Newton-Jackson and Dr Emma Hill. The book also features a foreword by IASH Director Professor Lesley McAra, and an introduction by IASH alumna and series editor Dr Désha Osborne.
Topics range from an exploration of linguistic activism in the Sápmi region to a critique of the colonialities of power, citizenship and bordering that operate in contemporary Scotland, as well as a history of the University of Edinburgh's links with the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, the tensions and counterpoints between universal concepts such as sovereignty, music and decolonial thought, and much more. The volume is inherently interdisciplinary, addressing areas as varied as philosophy, music, anthropology, international relations, history and material cultures. As Prof. McAra notes in her foreword:
My hope is that the essays in this second volume will pique the imagination of the reader and open up further dialogue about how decoloniality and decolonial praxis are necessary conditions, not only of international scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences, but also as fundamental to academic culture and the ways in which the scholarly community conducts itself. There is much still to learn and much still to change.
Speakers at the launch will include Dr Shakeel Anjum, Dr Simon Buck, Dr Thomas Metcakf and Dr Asha Varadharajan.
You can download the Open Access eBook as a free PDF here: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/IPD%20Vol%202%20FINAL%20for%20web.pdf
You can also download Volume 1 here: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Essays%20on%20Decoloniality%20Volume%201.pdf
