Decolonizing Ethnography in Practice - Detailseite

This seminar is designed to provide students with a critical understanding of decolonizing research and ethnographic work. Through engaging with contemporary debates and practices, students will gain practical skills for conducting and communicating research that is sensitive to decolonial perspectives. The course will be divided into four modules: (1) Decolonial Theory and Anthropology, (2) Decolonizing Research, Ethics and Methods, (3) Decolonizing Ethnography in Practice, and (4) Decolonial Storytelling. By the end of this course, students will be able to identify and analyze key texts on decoloniality and decolonizing research and methodology; critically examine the colonial history of research and ethnographic work; explore decolonial methodologies to create a more ethical, equitable, and inclusive research practice; develop a deeper understanding of the politics of research ethics, knowledge production, and storytelling; and apply decolonial writing techniques to conceptualize and creatively communicate research outcomes.    

  - Quijano, A. (2000). Coloniality of power and Eurocentrism in Latin America. International sociology, 15(2), 215-232.

- Grosfoguel, R. (2013). The structure of knowledge in westernised universities: Epistemic racism/sexism and the four genocides/epistemicides. Human Architecture: Journal of the sociology of self-knowledge, 1(1), 73-90.

- Tuhiwai Smith, Linda. (2012). Imperialism, history, and theory. In Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples: Second Edition. London and New York: Zed Books.  

- Chakravarty Spivak, G. (1988). Can the subaltern speak? In C. Nelson & L. Grossberg (Eds.), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (pp. 271-313). University of Illinois Press. 

- Maldonado-Torres, N. (2016). Outline of ten theses on coloniality and decoloniality.

- Mignolo, Walter. (2018). What does it mean to decolonize? In On Decoloniality, Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh. Durham and London: Duke University Press. pp.   105-134.

- A. (2018). Are anthropologists monsters? An Andean dystopian critique of extractivist ethnography and Anglophone-centric anthropology. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8(1-2), 48-64.

- Harrison, F. V. (2019). Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further toward an Anthropology for Liberation. American Anthropologist, 121(3), 587-594.     

Die Lehrveranstaltung findet im Raum 107a statt.

“Sollten Sie noch weitere Fragen zu diesem Lehrangebot haben, oder auch Probleme ansprechen wollen, können Sie sich auch an die Lehrkoordination des Instituts, Alice von Bieberstein (alice.bieberstein@hu-berlin) wenden.”