LibGuides: Decolonising your reading list: Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology

There is growing discussion of decolonising the curriculum in the HE sector.
The following resources reflect some of activity that has taken place across the SPA disciplines.
If you are aware of work in the sector that you'd like to highlight, please pass on details to the SPA Librarian, Nic Howorth.

Sociology Activity

Decolonise Sociology @ Cambridge
Decolonising Sociology activity at the University of Cambridge.

Decolonising Sociology Curriculum: Using an Online Immersive Learning Environment to Deliver Cross-cultural Training
A paper describing an online cultural training workshop based around the complex Aboriginal Kinship systems used in Australia.
Decolonising Social Thought and Contemporary Social Discourse: the diversification and globalisation of sociology
LSE Blog: Do movements dedicated to decolonising sociology need to press further? Ashley Masing explores what a fully decolonised sociology could look like.

Philosophy Activity

Diversity Reading List
The DRL collects high quality texts in philosophy written by authors from under-represented groups. Our aim is to make it easier for you to find such texts and use them in your teaching. Browse, search, include, and help make philosophy a discipline of equal opportunity!
APA Blog: Diversity and Inclusiveness
Blog posts from APA on a range of diversity and inclusiveness topics.
Decolonising Philosophy Do we need to wake up to western prejudice?
Video from IAI festival.

Anthropology Activity

decolanth@goldsmiths: a collective unsettling of anthropology
The aim of this site is to host a dialogue about decolonisation and its relationship to anthropology as an academic discipline. colonial anthropology in the present.
Savage Minds: Decolonizing Anthropology Series
Decolonizing Anthropology is a dialogue and debate series edited by Carole McGranahan and Uzma Z. Rizvi
Anthropology for Liberation readings 2.0
Reflections and reading list from Lorena Gibson on the development of a new course: Anthropology for Liberation

For more insights into this issue, take a look at some of the books and articles available via the Library...

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Subjects: Anthropology, Anthrozoology, Arab and Islamic Studies, Criminology, Education, European Studies, Food Studies, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Security Studies, Sociology