Welcome back to the sixth episode of the Dialogical Spaces podcast! In this episode, we are accompanied by Prof Rosalba Icaza Garza and Dr Javier Martinez.

Rosalba is professor at the International Institute of Social Studies in Den Haag. Her research centres on how decolonial thinking and plural feminisms can help understand international relations, academia, and learning practices. Before entering academia, she was an activist in Mexico City, working for a network of social movements bringing together indigenous and feminist leaders.

In this episode, she will discuss the colonial legacy of universities and pedagogical practices. Specifically, she encourages us to reflect on the relevance of what we can learn from outside European Higher Education for our own institutional and pedagogical context and presents the acts of positioning, humbling, listening, and desilencing as guiding principles in decolonizing knowledge institutions.

Javier Martinez, assistant professor at the University of Twente, helps us reflect on these topics and think through their meaning from our own teaching and knowledge practices.

We hope you enjoy it!

More information about the speakers:

More information from the University of Twente:

UTwente Shaping Expert Group Inclusion. More information about the Dialogical Spaces project.

This podcast is produced by Sara Trejos from Sillón Estudios.