Diversifying and Decolonising the University

Episode 17: Decolonising Computing, Part 2 (with Mustafa Ali)


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In this episode (the second of two parts), ⁠Catarina Carvalho⁠ talks to ⁠Mustafa Ali⁠ about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big tech. This picks up from where the first part left off, so please go back and listen to that one if you haven't already.

We also asked Mustafa, after the episode, to send us a reading list that might appear on his proposed 101 course, 'How the World Was Made'. We've added in suggestions of our own too. You can find it below. Let us know what recommendations you'd add to the list and if you use the list in your teaching.


FURTHER RESOURCES:

Mustafa Ali, ⁠'A Brief Introduction to Decolonial Computing'⁠
Mustafa Ali, ⁠'Towards a Decolonial Computing'⁠


HOW THE WORLD WAS MADE:

Fanon, Frantz, Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
Goldberg, David Theo, Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993)
Hall, Stuart, 'The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power' (1995)
Hartman, Saidiya, ‘Venus in Two Acts’ (2008)
Lorde, Audre, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Mignolo, Walter, The Darker Side of Western Modernity (2011)
Mills, Charles, The Racial Contract (1997)
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (2003)
Quijano, Aníbal, 'Colonialidad y modernidad/racionalidad' (1989)
Samman, Khaldoun and Mazhar Al-Zo'by, Islam and The Orientalist World System (2008)
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999)
Winant, Howard, The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice (2004)
Wynter, Sylvia, 'Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Introduction’ (2003)



EPISODE NOTES:

Dr. Mustafa Ali  is a Lecturer in Computing at the Open University. He conducts transdisciplinary research investigating the interactions between race, religion, politics, ethics, and computing/ICT. Specifically, he examines and critically analyzes how colonial power harmfully affects our ways of seeing and thinking.


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