Third World in Theory Reading Group

The WLCD research group aims to bring researchers from diverse critical traditions including Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Marxist, Critical Legal Theory (CLS) in Legal Studies, Critical, Marxist, post-Marxist, Structural, post-Structural and heterodox approaches to Development Studies and critical Conflict Studies to explore the linkages and connections between law, development and conflicts in the Third World.Since the end of the Cold War, and more recently since the events of the so-called “9/11”, international law, international institutions, development policies and civil and military conflicts in the Third World appear tangled and interconnected in complex ways. The Westminster Law, Development & Conflict Research Group seeks to probe the entanglement through interdisciplinary scholarship and multidisciplinary perspectives. The LDC Group provides a forum for (1) conversation, collaboration, and cooperation between scholars, activists and wider communities; (2) to develop research activities to advance understanding and appreciation of the complex interplay of law, development policies and conflicts; and (3) to extend the outreach of Westminster LDC Group’s work to the wider research communities, development NGOs and global justice movements. Affiliation to the Group is open to scholars, legal professionals, NGOs, activists and community organisations.

Westminster Law, Development and Conflicts Research Group

Connor Hayes reads Linda Smith’s “Decolonizing Methodologies – Research and Indigenous Peoples”

Westminster Law School - Room 2.14

This year the <a href="https://lawdevelopmentconflict.com/reading-group/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Third World in Theory study group</a> resumes its engagement with theoretical orientations towards the Third World within academia. The theme for the Study Group in 2019-20 is ‘Decolonising – Then and Now’. Decolonising the academia and academic curriculum has gained popularity in the UK and elsewhere in recent times with many universities setting up teaching and learning initiatives to decolonise their curriculum. Decolonising academia presupposes engagement with theories and histories that inform critique of colonialism and imperialism. In the academic year 2019-20 the Third World in Theory study group will revisit and analyse key classical texts by leading thinkers who have influenced national liberation struggles and map the transformations of ideas in more recent scholarship on colonialism.Decolonizing Methodologies – Research and Indigenous Peoples is a fundamental reading for decolonial research. Connor leads the discussion of Smith’s work, unveiling the elements of decolonial methodologies. 
Connor Hayes is a graduate student in Sociology researching the Kurdish Freedom Movement. His other research interests include philosophy and comparative political theory.

Recommended reading:
 Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. 2013. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Zed Books Ltd.
The Third World in Theory study group is open to all.You can join TWT Reading Group accessing the LDC website: <a href="https://lawdevelopmentconflict.com/reading-group/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://lawdevelopmentconflict.com/reading-group/</a>

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