Aralez: Decolonial Blog & learning sessions

Aralez: Decolonial Blog & learning sessions

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Aralez: Decolonial Blog & learning sessions episodes

  • Decolonizing Desires: Reimagining Sexuality in the Dutch Caribbean Landscape | DLS 26

    This decolonial learning session will focus on decolonizing gender and sexuality in the Dutch Caribbean landscape. Rigid ideas of gender and sexuality are inherently linked to a colonial viewpoint. Through a conversation with Wigbertson Julian Isenia, we will examine the impact of colonialism on ideas of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean and will look at how this can help us deconstruct our understandings in the Netherlands.

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    Bio:
    Wigbertson Julian Isenia (he/they) is an interdisciplinary scholar and assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. They co-founded Black Queer Archives, which organizes panels and exhibitions on marginalized groups, such as queer activist groups of colour from the 1970s and HIV and AIDS awareness among postcolonial migrants in the Netherlands. Their work focuses on gendered and sexual cultures in Curaçao (part of the Dutch Caribbean) by analyzing cultural practices such as archival collections, literature, theatre, and cultural performances, combining ethnography with archival work. They are particularly interested in the implications of postcolonialism and queer politics for historical and contemporary debates. By combining creative interdisciplinary methodologies, they have made contributions that have earned numerous awards, enhancing academic understanding and promoting societal inclusion. This work underscores their commitment to extending scholarly findings beyond the confines of academia.

    1 hr 25 min
  • Decolonizing Palestine | Decolonial Learning Session #25

    About the session:

    This session will be divided in two parts, the first part will deal with al Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948 and its impact on Palestinian lives to date. Key historical events will be discussed to illustrate the continuation of settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing. The second part will deal with the ideological underpinnings of the settler colonial apartheid scheme that has unfolded to colonize Palestine from 1896 to the present. A focus will be on how to decolonize Palestine and establish a one democratic state solution from the river to the sea.


    About the speaker: 

    Dr. Samir Abed-Rabbo is a Palestinian refugee born in Qalandia Refugee Camp in Jerusalem, Palestine. He holds a PhD in International Law and is the author and editor of several articles and books and is the lead author of both The Munich Declaration for One Democratic State in Historic Palestine (2012) and The Dallas Declaration of the Movement for One Democratic State in Historic Palestine (2010)

    1 hr 44 min
  • De Republiek der Zuid-Molukken (RMS)- Een product van mental kolonisatie | Decolonial Learning Session #24

    Omschrijving Sessie:

    Tijdens deze Decolonial Learning Session gaan we in gesprek met Sam Pormes over het ontstaan van de beweging voor een onafhankelijk Republiek Maluku Selatan (RMS). Pormes schreef daarover het boek Grijpen naar een Schaduw, het eerste boek van een Molukker over de dekolonisatie van de Molukken. Hij biedt een kritisch perspectief op het Hollandocentrische wereldbeeld dat nog altijd rond dit onderwerp domineert. Want hoe representatief voor de Molukken zijn de veelal christelijke koloniale militairen die naar Nederland zijn gekomen en eisen opstellen voor een onafhankelijk RMS? Is er ook aandacht, bijvoorbeeld, voor de meerderheid van vissers, boeren en moslims in Maluku? Pormes stelt dat de RMS beweging is ondergedompeld met koloniale waarden en propaganda. Een creatie van rechts en reactionair Nederland, doordrenkt met liefdesbetuigingen aan het Koningshuis. Hij fileert op kritische wijze het ontstaan van de RMS en de rol van Nederland hierbij.
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    Over Sam Pormes:
    Sam Pormes is een voormalig Eerste Kamerlid en de eerste Nederlandse senator van Molukse afkomst, momenteel actief als Commissielid fractie Groenlinks in de provincie Drenthe. Pormes heeft interculturele welzijnsvraagstukken gedoceerd aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en is medeoprichter van de Molukse progressieve beweging. Hij is tevens auteur van het nieuw verschenen boek: Grijpen Naar een Schaduw: Politieke reflectie op de dekolonisatie van de Molukken.

    1 hr 46 min
  • Colonial dynamics in global climate politics | Decolonial Learning Session #23

    This session dives into a decolonizing perspective on the role of carbon offsets in global climate politics. The two hour session consist of two parts. First, an interactive workshop will be moderated by Dr. Tamra Gilbertson and Thomas Joseph.Here, the audience will take part in facilitated group activity working to define key concepts in structural colonial oppression.    The second half of the session is a lecture where Tamra and Thomas will speak on forest carbon offsets, ‘net-zero’ targets and carbon markets in climate global politics, explain what they are, their role in global climate policy, their shortfalls, problematic consequences, colonial ties and more, by the means of the previously defined key concepts. Lastly, they will speak about the critical resistance of carbon pricing in the Indigenous Climate movements and dive deeper into social and climate justice policies. 

    About the speaker

    Dr. Tamra Gilbertson is an activist-scholar, researcher and writer. She is an Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) Project Coordinator of the Climate Justice program. She was a founder and director of Carbon Trade Watch, and Coordinator of the Environmental Justice Project of the Transnational Institute (TNI). She has researched climate and environmental justice concerns for almost two decades, specifically the political economy of carbon trading and pricing. She is the author of Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance (2017), among many other articles, book chapters and publications. She has training in photography, film-making and journalism and is currently a Lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology and The New School, Department of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management.  Thomas Joseph (Hoopa Valley Tribe) is a carbon-policy educator at the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN). Thomas will function as a representative for the IEN, which is a grassroots network of Indigenous leaders and communities across Turtle Island fighting for Environmental Justice and the Rights of Mother Earth.

    1 hr 18 min
  • Human rights in Iran: past, present and future | Decolonial Learning Session #22

    What’s happening in Iran? In this Decolonial Learning Session Setareh Sadeqi, an Iranian based activist, offers insights from inside Iran. With a critical perspective on both Western narratives and Iranian policies, Setareh will reflect on the current protests in Iran. From the impact of the Iranian revolution of 1979 on today’s Iranian society and it’s relationship with the West to the position of women and their struggle for equality.

    About the Speaker:

    Setareh Sadeqi is Iranian based activist who lives in the city of Esfahan. She’s a Ph.D. and an independent researcher. She works as translator and a teacher. Setareh studied the US Civil Rights Movement and propaganda analysis as part of her Ph.D.

    1 hr 14 min

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The goal of the monthly decolonial learning sessions is to build a larger and more sustainable activist community and network which can exchange and learn more about decolonial theory and practise.…