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01/08/23, 7:00 p.m. (CEST, UTC+02:00), Dr. Huaping Lu-Adler will be giving an online lecture "Moving through Racism with Love: What I have learned from studying Kant and Racism".

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Did you know that you can now support the DRL by making a donation? The #MarcSandersFoundation is now accepting donations on our behalf here:

Any amount would go a long way to help us maintain the list and pursue all of our projects!

🧵🎉🎉🎉 We're beyond excited to share that the Marc Sanders Foundation is now supporting the DRL! Check out our dedicated page on their website: https://marcsandersfoundation.org/diversity-reading-list/

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Our Epistemology Editor, Quentin Pharr, along with our co-managers, @SimonFokt and Clotilde Torregrossa, wrote a paper on 'Indexing Philosophy in a Fair and Inclusive Key', and it's now out in the Journal of the @apaphilosophy! https://tinyurl.com/3ucf28jp

Very much looking forward to discussing "Which Bodies Have Minds? Feminism, Panpsychism, and the Attribution Question," with the Feminist Philosophy of Mind online reading group tomorrow April 5th at 5pm UK time. Registration details are below!

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Sharing this interesting event: 01/08/23, 7:00 p.m. (CEST, UTC+02:00), Dr. Huaping Lu-Adler will be giving an online lecture "Moving through Racism with Love: What I have learned from studying Kant and Racism". Details below👇 Did you know that you can now support the DRL by making a donation?

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East Asia : China, Hong Kong/Macau, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan
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This webpage is a list of library resources in the countries/regions of Asia & Oceania:

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INTRO: East Asia : China, Hong Kong/Macau, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan Southeast Asia : Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam Oceania : Australia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu This webpage is a list

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This Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Reading List has been developed to assist faculty, staff, and students in gaining understanding and appreciation of DEI issues in our society.

We intend the DEI Reading List to spark conversations and dialogue, and help us to address our challenges and opportunities to improve our university community.

The reading list is not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography of diversity, equity, and inclusion topics.

The DEI Reading List contains selected book resources, representing diverse perspectives on societal problems. Most of the books may consider these issues through the lens of the United States, and we acknowledge that other perspectives exist.

The initial motivation for the reading list came from the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Audit prepared by IBIS Consulting Group for the University of Missouri Board of Curators and distributed to students, faculty, and staff on December 7, 2016. In particular, the UM System Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Task Force Initial Response to the IBIS Audit Report contains the following recommendation for UMKC : "A DEI reading list should be developed and promoted among faculty and staff."

Books chosen for the DEI Reading List are written for reading by general, non-specialist audiences. The authors of these books are diverse as a group, and efforts have been made to provide different voices and perspectives on any single issue.

Developed in a partnership between the UMKC Division of Diversity and Inclusion and UMKC Libraries, this list shall be a "living document," and suggestions of books to consider adding to the list are welcome and encouraged.

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Western culture has long been defining how the world came to existence, its history, and how it works from a perspective which is centred on a Western and white point of view. While this specific paradigm has been the dominant position of power, others have been hegemonized by it, their cultures and experiences dismissed and excluded.

AFRO CYBER RESISTANCE - Tabita Rezaire. "Although decolonial movements have been around since the beginning of the colonial era, I feel like there are new energies and strategies of active dissidence because our generation is not buying the post-colonial dream. We don't want to be complicit. The current resistance is intersectional, inclusive of all marginalised and oppressed identities." (source)

This unequal relationship has been a key aspect of colonialism, the practice of a power extending control over weaker beings or spaces.

Colonialism is a term most often used to refer to the occupation of territories and exploitation of the indigenous communities residing there. However, it can also be applied in contexts which do not necessarily relate to the exertion of rights over geographical borders, but still present the acquisition of control over a community, its economical exploitation and the erasure of its identity.

One example of this kind of 'borderless colonial' phenomenon comes from digital technology.

While many technical innovations are asserted as universally positive and beneficial to communities worldwide, beyond borders and across cultures, a closer analysis of who holds the power, who has agency, and whose interests are promoted, can often reveal a very different picture.

Questioning how and for whom tools and services are created, and with which rights and restrictions they are made accessible, shows how closely and frequently technology can reproduce colonialist paradigms, also exacerbating its consequences through the large and fast scale of the mechanism which spreads it.

Going beyond the predominant narrative of power provided by the same actors who have been holding it for a century-long time can provide a great tool to resist and stand up against systemic injustice.

This piece wishes to invite technology users and makers to take a closer look at the work done to date to challenge these paradigms. In order to do this, the post includes a reading list with the aim to inspire reflections, learnings, and actions.

Rebekka Kahn and Nasma Ahmed have generously contributed their feedback and perspectives to the review of this post.

An especially grateful acknowledgement goes to sociologist and biological anthropologist Shay Akil McLean for the invaluable learnings shared on the websites Decolonize All The Things and Decolonize All the Science, and to medical sociologist and author Zoé Samudzi for the critical and resolute analysis she offers on her essays and op-eds. Please consider supporting their work ( here and here), so that they can keep inspiring and mobilizing ever growing crowds of thinkers.

Seeing the colonial dimensions of technology

Today, the ways and means of technology access and usage are driven by power dynamics centering the needs of specific demographics and experiences. This strikingly channels a colonialist exercise of control, establishing who gets to use a tool or service, and to which extent.

For example:

And if barriers created by infrastructure, economy, and language were not enough:

As Anjuan Simmons says in Technology colonialism:

"Colonialism is now seen by many as a discredited form of rule, but technology companies today are increasingly colonial in their actions. This can be seen in the veneer of sovereignty they seek to cultivate, how they work across borders, their use of dominant culture as a weapon, and the clear belief that "superior" technology is a suitable excuse for lawlessness, exploitation and even violence."

If left unchallenged, such exercise of power will keep exacerbating the inequalities and discriminations which technology would actually have the potential against which to stand.
Sim Card Project (ongoing) - Isaac Kariuki. "My SIM Card series explored the cell phone rush in Kenya: we kind of missed the PC boom, and cell phones really changed a lot, even in popular culture. The leading mobile network created a monopoly, and it reflects so much of the autocracy still present in Kenya." (source)

How to look into it?

A growing number of researchers, scholars, artists and advocates has been looking into how a colonialist approach sits at the core of how a great deal of digital technology is developed, distributed, and capitalized. This has progressively contributed to form a new lens through which to analyse the subject matter, which can be referred to as the concept of decolonizing technology.

Broadly speaking, decolonization is the acquisition of independence from a colonial system. Through a process of self-determination, those who had been colonized reach liberation from their colonizer.

Applying the concept of decolonization to the modern landscape of technology infrastructure and networks has tremendous potential to strengthen our understanding of how power works, and ideally how to respond to its wrongdoings. At the same time, it also raises numerous questions.

For example:

What does it mean to think about digital technology as a tool to resist and fight against colonial inequality and erasure?

How do the tensions between colonization, migration and diaspora emerge in how technology is developed and accessed?

How can we envision decolonized technologies at the local, transnational and global level?

What does it look like to challenge present colonial legacies and imagine decolonial futures?

As so many questions are far from having an answer, there are plenty of aspects of this concept to be researched, documented, and discussed across borders, infrastructures and policies, and taking into account the experiences of a literally global net of stakeholders.

However, the complexity of the subject matter shouldn't keep anyone from learning about it. The more people grow their awareness of how power is held and exercised, the more they will be able to collectively advocate and act against the colonial systems which rule technology globally.
A Healthy Fear - Miao Ying. "In A Healthy Fear, the background is a snapshot of an official Google ad from the Google YouTube channel [...] The recording of the video is by a Chinese netizen who used Google Translate [...] What is funny is that there is neither Google nor YouTube in China, but that doesn't stop people from using Google." (source)

But where to start to find some of the work which explores a future of decolonized technology?

Sharing a reading list

With the objective to build a resource to inspire new learnings and reflections on the concept of decolonizing technology, this post includes a reading list on the topic.

In order to be shared on this very blog, and to make sure that all the writeups included were available to anyone interested, the list only includes texts written in English and academic sources which were made openly accessible online. Without a doubt, there are many more resources written in other languages, and academic studies which have not yet been openly shared, which focus on this subject.

This list represents a snapshot of some the work done to date on the concept of decolonizing technology. It aims to inspire further research and discoveries of any other possible resource and initiative delving deeper into this subject, from many more and different perspectives.

The wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

We need a decolonized, not a "diverse", education - Zoé Samudzi, Harlot

The people's science: A call for justice based ethics for the March for Science & beyond - Shay Akil McLean, Decolonize All the Science

We need decolonial scientists - Shay Akil McLean, Decolonize All The Things

Decolonization as the horizon of political action - Irmgard Emmelhainz, e-flux

Decoloniality - Gurminder K Bhambra, Global Social Theory

Modernity/coloniality - Lucy Mayblin, Global Social Theory

Teaching STEM in ways that respect and build upon indigenous peoples' rights - Marissa Spang, Megan Bang, STEM Teaching Tools

Decolonization is not a metaphor - Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang. From Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, Vol. 1 No. 1

Creating technology by the people, for the people. An interview with Thenmozhi Soundararajan - Laura Flanders, The Nation

Technology colonialism - Anjuan Simmons, Model View Culture

The dawn of cyber-colonialism - George Danezis

Data colonialism: Critiquing consent and control in "tech for social change" - Anonymous Author, Model View Culture

This is for everyone? Steps towards decolonizing the Web - Jessica Ogden, Susan Halford, Les Carr, Graeme Earl, University of Southampton

Digital colonialism and the Internet as a tool of cultural hegemony - Knowledge Commons Brasil

Dividing Lines. Mapping platforms like Google Earth have the legacies of colonialism programmed into them - Mayukh Sen, Real Life

Free Basics and the internet's political battles - Paz Peña, Derechos Digitales

Feminism online in West and Central Africa: Identities and digital colonisation - Caroline Tagny, GenderIT.org

Toward a clear, decolonizing conception of internet and information technology - Amaya Saborit Alfonso, Granma: Official voice of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee

Decolonizing the digital/digital decolonization - Dalida María Benfield, Sally Burch, Angel Nevarez and Alex Rivera, Ravi Sundaram, The Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise Project, Vol. 3 Dossier 1. Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University

Towards a new digital landscape. Representation, erasure, and the future of digital art - Kimberly Drew, Walker Art Center

What's next

This reading list has been compiled and shared to encourage reflections and discussions on digital technologies, colonial dynamics, and how to imagine alternative and decolonized digital futures.

If you learned something new from the authors of the resources included in the list, please consider supporting the sustainability of their work. Many have a donation system linked on their website or social media account for this purpose.

Feedback, thoughts and recommendations of further resources are very much appreciated. Please feel welcome to share your thoughts leaving a comment to this post or getting in touch via email.

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Interrogating Spaces examines ideas around inclusivity and attainment in Higher Education. Each episode will explore democratic and decolonised teaching practices through dialogue with practitioners as well as staff and students from University of the Arts London.

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Inner Temple Library - Racism and Legal Profession

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A reading list articles Artesi D, '#Callitout: Why Are BME Barristers More Likely To Be Pursued By The BSB?'

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Goldsmith's Decolonising the Modern World reading list

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The below video is a brief and (hopefully) accessible introduction to the ways in which racism overlaps with class. The material underpinnings of racism are often ignored, and class can sometimes be co-opted as something that only disadvantages white people. The video draw on UK and US evidence of property and wealth inequalities. Full sources are below. Adesina, Z., & Marocico, O. (2017, February 6). Adam or Mohamed - who gets the job? BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-38751307 Bertrand, M., & Mullainathan, S. (2004). Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha... Read more Racism & Class →

Aim: To quantitatively assess White, Globally Northern, androcentrism across the leadership of the British Psychology Society, with a focus on its former presidents. Method: The British Psychological Society (BPS) lists their current and former presidents' names, years of offices and sometimes URL links to obituaries or work on their website (The British Psychological Society n.d.). The likely, identifiable, ethnicity, gender and nationality of these presidents was coded. Results: At the time of the write up (2020), there had been 85 current or former presidents of BPS society. Most of the... Read more BPS Presidents →

Of the successes of Decolonial Higher Education efforts, much is owed to BAME student activists. The #WhyIsMyCurriculumWhite, #RhodesMustFall and #WhyIsntMyProfessorBlack movements were initiated by students (and our project here was directly inspired by former Leeds University Union Education officer (2015 - 2017) Melz Owusu). In addition, as the recipients of higher education, and as those with lived experience of racism, BAME students are uniquely placed to input into these efforts. As Michelle Fine (2014) notes: "the people who have experienced injustice have brilliant insight into injustices, the nature of injustices,... Read more Student anti-racism: A case study →

The Gap The 'Race' Attainment Gap refers to the higher chance White students in Higher Education have of getting a 1st or 2:1 degree compared to their Black, Asian, Minoritized Ethnic (BAME) counterparts. Nationally, the latest data shows White students are 13% more likely to be awarded these grades compared to BAME students, although this increases to 23% when looking at Black students specifically. Here at Leeds Beckett University, at our school of social sciences, data shows that there is a 23% attainment gap between White and BAME students (Craig,... Read more The 'Race' Attainment Gap →

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UCL Medical school - liberating the curriculum

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Practically creating an inclusive curriculum by Talking and Learning: a podcast on HE

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"Through exploring these power imbalances, I wanted to see how us, as medical students, could become better professionals in the future." Hope Chow, second year medical student

Alongside leads Dr Faye Gishen and Dr Amali Lokugamage, Hope talks about her involvement in a project to diversify the curriculum in the UCL Medical School.

The team are one of six projects recently funded as part of the university's Liberating the Curriculum initiative which aims to challenge Eurocentric, male-dominated curricula at UCL and find ways of fairly representing marginalised voices in the mainstream curriculum, specifically black, queer, disabled and feminist contributions to knowledge. 

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We discuss science as a whole community; let’s do the same with equity and inclusion.

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Reading List on Modern and Colonial Science in the Middle East

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UCL reproduction and fertility reading list

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Oxford Brookes Inclusive reading list for for Business

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 "All in! Regularising ethnic presence in the curriculum"

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Readings on decolonisation, diversity, equality and racism. This list has been created as part of "All in! Regularising ethnic presence in the curriculum" - a project funded by the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham Education Partnership Fund.

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The alternative reading list project

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The Consortium's Syllabus Collection provides easy access to a wide range of courses taught about topics related to gender, armed conflict, peacemaking and postwar reconstruction, as well as feminist perspectives on global politics.

The collection is intended to support the expansion and strengthening of education in this field by acting as a resource for teachers who want to design new courses or to update existing ones. Researchers, as well as readers new to the field, may also find it useful to explore these syllabi, as they represent a distillation of the readings that professors have found most useful in teaching about their areas of expertise.

In the interest of finding framings of and readings about these issues from multiple perspectives, we have endeavored to collect syllabi from as many countries as possible, although there is significant regional variation in whether or how syllabi are constructed and available. Please help strengthen this collection by submitting a syllabus here!
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This page lists each of the topics on which we collect syllabi. Simply click on the category or its arrow to open up a list of courses which are either wholly about that topic or contain significant sections on the topic. The filters on the left will sort the results within each individual category.
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What's on your reading list?

The dominance of scholars from the Global North is pervasive in academia, and this has a direct impact on student curricula. Institutions are starting to examine data on reading lists and it is clear that there are often significant imbalances in the diversity and representation of authors. This homogeneity has consequences for students' thinking; limiting the methodological tools available to them, reinforcing dominant paradigms and curtailing academic potential.

The University of Sussex Law Department undertook a student-led evaluation of subject reading lists. Some of the recommendations around decolonising included:

give consideration to the proportion of authors from underrepresented backgrounds

consider where the narrative of the materials are centred

ensure diverse materials are central to teaching (essential reading)

consult a wide range of materials

do not represent materials by authors from underrepresented backgrounds as 'other'

engage with students about the choice of content

You can check out our reading lists on Anti-Racism and Black History and teaching collections as useful starting points. Further resources below.

Embedding decolonising practices into teaching

Many staff are committed to developing decolonised teaching and learning practices. Identifying approaches to translate theory into classroom practice can present a challenge. The Library can support teachers in the following ways:

helping tutors identify and familiarise themselves with a wide range of resources, including resources that are freely available

delivering training sessions for students

develop digital learning resources for inclusion on a module's Canvas site.

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LibGuides: Decolonisation and Anti-Racism: Resources for educators

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Tufts toolkit for diversifying materials

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A diversity statement is a paragraph or section in institutional, department, or course language that welcomes the range of human representations including race, class, gender, religion, accessibility, and socioeconomic status. Instructors can use the diversity statement to set expectations for civil discourse, encouragement for varying opinions, and standards of behavior both within a course or discipline and during controversial campus events. At root, the diversity statement signals belief that all students have value and bring unique perspectives worthy of consideration.
Indigenous Land Acknowledgment

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LibGuides: Diversifying Course Materials: Tools for Faculty

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A diversity statement is a paragraph or section in institutional, department, or course language that welcomes the range of human representations including race, class, gender, religion, accessibility, and socioeconomic status. Instructors can use the diversity statement to set expectations for civil discourse, encouragement for varying opinions, and standards of behavior both within a course or discipline and during controversial campus events.

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Categories: 19th Century Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Edmund Husserl, History of Western Philosophy, Husserl: Philosophy of Mind, Mental States and Processes, Metaphysics & Epistemology , Phenomenology, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of Mind, Temporal Experience, The Specious Present, William James

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Leeds Beckett Toolkit

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1. Introduction

The diversification of our reading lists and resources is a strategic goal within the University's Access and Participation Plan. These pages have been created as an aid for academic staff in identifying and adopting more diverse information resources onto reading lists; in support of more inclusive curriculum design.

They include a list of publishers with BAME authorship representation; how to search for inclusive content; resources recommended by students; best practice on how to make your reading lists more inclusive and current research in the field.

If you have any suggestions of appropriate resources or information to be added to these pages please contact the Library via the details at the bottom of this page.

2. BAME publishers and book lists

An award winning collective, aiming to curate and showcase "the best multicultural content the world of arts has to offer", and take it on tour.

Art, Cultural Studies & Humanities, Education, Health & Community Studies, Social Sciences

Booktrust Black History Month

Book list of 29 historical stories from Black History around the world. From picture books to teen novels, it spans fiction and non-fiction.

Booktrust Black Lives Matter
Book list of top books that examine the structural oppression experienced by the Black community, aimed at inspiring and empowering young children to talk about anti-racism.

Education

Booktrust Represents: Picture books

3 book lists produced from a three-year project created to promote children's authors and illustrators of colour.

Education

Breaking New Ground
Celebrating British writers and illustrators of colour.

Education

Duke University Press

This publisher's mission is to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute to the international community of scholarship.

All subjects

Ethiopian Journals Online

Peer reviewed, open access journals in Ethiopia.

All subjects

Independent publisher based in north London. Publishing innovative and challenging fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from across the UK and beyond.

All subjects

Lantana Publishing
Publishing inclusive children's books that celebrate our differences.

Education

Mary Martin

Broad catalogue of over 690,000 books, 164 countries, in 127 languages. This publisher also lists journal subscriptions.

Education

New Beacon Books

Specialists in African and Caribbean Literature since 1966. Non-fiction African, African American, Black British, Caribbean, sport, self help/Wellbeing.

Cultural Studies & Humanities

Springer - Black Lives Matter

Freely available collection of content relevant to some of the issues that have led to the use of the statement Black Lives Matter.The publisher hopes this collection will help readers gain from research insights, not least in the history and social science of racism and police violence and they have sought to amplify Black voices within their collection by sharing their research, personal stories and journey.Topics covered include: social inequality and systemic racism, policing race and civil unrest, gender, racism and oppression, health disparities, stories from Black women in research.

All subjects

50 diversity books
A PDF of 'TES's 50 books to diversify your class reading list.'The list is divided into age ranges, from toddler to 14-18-year olds.

Education

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Diversifying our reading lists and resources

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The diversification of our reading lists and resources is a strategic goal within the University's Access and Participation Plan. These pages have been created as an aid for academic staff in identifying and adopting more diverse information resources onto reading lists; in support of more inclusive curriculum design.

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This site is intended as a free resource for students, teachers, academics, and others interested in social theory and wishing to understand it in global perspective.