Voices From Peripheries: Voices of Resistance

In this powerful episode, Khadeja, the International Advocacy Officer at MIFTAH, delves into the brutal realities confronting Palestinians, focusing on sexual violence as a weapon of genocide and the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians. She critically examines how Western media and political narratives often reduce Palestinians to "terrorist" men and "oppressed" women. Khadeja also addresses the limits of Western feminists, who have largely remained silent about the oppression of Palestinian women. She unpacks the layers of racism faced by both Palestinian men and women, exploring how these intersecting forms of oppression contribute to the erasure of Palestinian voices, silencing the resistance of those who continue to fight for justice.

Gerlov van Engelenhoven is a cultural theorist and assistant professor at Leiden University, Centre for the Arts in Society in the Netherlands. His research is about voice and silence in postcolonial memory practices, focusing on the Moluccan Community in the Netherlands. In this episode, Gerlov, through the history and present of the Indonesian Mollucan community in the Netherlands, discusses different cases where both silences and voices shape resistance and open possibilities for liberation and reparation for the postcolonial subjects. Check his book 👉🏽Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences" was published in Open Access with Amsterdam University Press in 2022.

Caroline Rodriguez Silva is a PhD candidate at Fundacao Getúlio Vargas EAESP. Her field of research relates to gender, race, class, and intersectional studies and social justice. Her thesis focuses on the violence against women in organisations and corporations. Caroline is the founder of Nucleus of Studies Amefricanidades (NEA), an initiative that seeks dialogue on racial, gender, sexuality, and geopolitical issues between the academic market and society. Moreover she works as a consultant on gender and race pedagogies applied from early childhood education until university curricula.

Aymen Amayed is a Fellow researcher At the Arab Reform Initiative. Agronomist, researcher and political activist, he worked in Tunisian civil society and engaged with multiple organizations and grassroots social movements. His main research and work are about environmental and ecological issues. In this episode, I discuss with Aymen Amayed issues related to the political economy of agriculture, particularly the food sovereignty question in Tunisia and countries of the global south.

Donna is a professor of tourism at the University of Sunderland in the Uk. Her work focuses on the representation of women and race in the context of tourism. She is also interested in the link between heritage and national identities, postcolonial and decolonial epistemologies in research and teaching, visual methods, sexuality and critical and innovative approaches to tourism research. Donna is the Convener of a cross-faculty Interdisciplinary Research Network on Race, Class and Ethnicity (RaCE).

Marcelo Nogueira is a PhD student at FGV Sao Paulo in Brazil. His PhD project focuses on dreams and Amerindian perspectivism as a way to decolonize organisations.

"I define myself as sitting somewhere in the intersection of systems of privilege and systems of oppression" S.D

Interview with Prof. Sadhvi Dar; Reader in Interdisciplinary Management and Organisation Studies in the Queen Mary, University of London.

In this interview, Sadhvi highlights the idea of decolonization as something sited and located "it is about the politic of land and geography". Moreover, she underlines the challenges of building transnational solidarity and the importance of creating a supportive community to survive.

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Voices from the peripheries is a podcast about decolonizing knowledge and mind. My name is Amira Benali. I am from Tunisia and I have been working in Europe Universities for the last ten years. Like many of you, I aspire to contribute to the social justice and equality efforts. In this podcast, I will invite scholars, students and activists worldwide to discuss topics such as cultural dominance, decolonial feminism, food sovereignty, Islamophobia, and indigenous knowledge among other topics.