Multiversum - Decolonising For Social Change
Multiversum: Decolonising For Social Change is a Working Paper series published by DECkNO
Centre for Decolonising Knowledge in Teaching, Research and Practice (DECkNO)
We explore meanings and ways of decolonising knowledge in academia. We explain and challenge Eurocentrism, and fight individual, institutional & systemic racism
About DECkNO
Find out more about DECkNO and our members
About DECkNO -Decolonising Knowledge For Social Change across the University & beyond
DECkNO aims to challenge Eurocentrism in the social sciences, arts and humanities and to consider its socioeconomic, educational and policy implications.
DECkNO Launch Event: Taking the decolonial seriously
DECkNO was officially launched at the University of Bath on the 15 October 2019.
DECkNO members
Members of the DECkNO research hub for decolonising teaching research and practice.
Past events held by the Centre for Decolonising Knowledge in Teaching, Research and Practice
DECkNO past events, workshops, collaboration and contribution.
News
Recent work and publications related to DECkNO
Planet Local Summit - Hosted by NGO Local Futures in Bristol
DECkNO Director Professor Ana C. Dinerstein and others are contributing to the Planet Local Summit on September 29 – October 1
We - Nosotrxs - Crossing Worlds and Galaxies
An online event co-organised by DECkNO with Global Tapestry of Alternatives and others, this event is available in Spanish and English.
Anti-racist futures: Exploring possibilities from transatlantic slavery to decolonial praxis
A group visit to the M: Shed Museum followed by an on-boat discussion.
Read about the Botanical Encounters project
Funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust to promote decolonial encounters around plants and green spaces in Bath
Centre for Urban Research on Austerity: Annual Lecture 2021
Dr. Ana Cecilia Dinerstein's annual lecture for CURA on 'Decolonising Critique: Reconnecting critical theory with radical praxis today'.
SWDTP’s ‘Decolonising Social Research’ series
Seminars in this series include Decolonising: Theory, Epistemologies, Research Ethics, Methodologies and Writing and Representation.
Research and contribution
Find out about the work DECkNO is doing
DECkNO Themes & Projects
DECkNO connects a range of ongoing research projects and pedagogical activities.
DECkNO: curriculum, training and inclusion at the University of Bath and beyond
DECkNO contributes to work at the University of Bath and SWDTP that decolonises the curriculum, trains students and facilitates inclusion.
Upcoming Events
events coming up in the DECkNO department
Freedom, Equality and Alterity: The meaning and significance of Dussel's concept of exteriority
30 Nov 2023 1.15pm
1 west,
3.107,
University of Bath
Exploring the significance of Dussel's concept of exteriority, using the speaker's applied works on indigenous peoples' struggles in the colonial states-system.
About DECkNO
DECkNO research hub explores meanings and ways of decolonising knowledge in social sciences, arts and humanities across the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, the University and beyond.
We respond to the need to explain and fight against systemic, institutional and individual Eurocentrism leading to racism in academia and society by seeking to decolonise our research agendas, the curriculum, our interventions as scholar activists practitioners and as policy advisors.