Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons
Tarragona, Spain - July 8-22, 2010
The international Summer School, “Decolonizing Knowledge and Power,” is an undertaking that aims at enlarging the scope of the conversation (analysis and investigation) of the hidden agenda of modernity (that is, coloniality) in the sphere of knowledge and higher education. This course is offered through the Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues, in Tarragona, Spain, in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
Faculty members include:
Chela Sandoval, Salman Sayyid, Nelson Maldonado-Torres,
James Cohen, Ramón
Grosfoguel, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Michael Omi,
Kwame Nimako, Tiffany Ruby Patterson
and Daphne V. Taylor-García.
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About the Center
A view of the Amphitheatre and Mediterranean Sea from Downtown Tarragona.
DIÀLEG GLOBAL (Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues) is a non-profit and non-governmental organization promoting research, knowledge-making, education (through seminars, workshops, exhibits, round-tables discussions, publications and video-making) and public policy to invent and work towards non-competitive horizons of life, of socio-economic organization and international relations. Non-profit and non-governmental organizations emerge from within civil and political society to address issues that are not supported or attended to by government and corporations. Their function is crucial in building futures that are beyond the regulations of States or the needs of the Corporations. In order for civil and political society to become relevant actors in social transformation and pointing out the limits of corporate values and state regulation, it is necessary to create institutions of knowledge-making not at the service of the state or corporations, but to the benefit of the civil society.
For further inquiries and information, please send e-mail to DecolonialKnowledge [at] gmail.com.