The BBS Decolonisation Project, University of Birmingham and the Decolonial International Network (DIN) Foundation are organizing a dialogue between Sandew Hira, DIN secretary and Dr. Paul Webster, whose interests are in Marxist Philosophy and Ethics.
WHEN: Monday, 27 March, 6pm BST
WHERE: Room 229, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT (Map: https://campusmap.bham.ac.uk//search/projects/23/5d6f49111e1f64009327a19b)
Zoom details: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84145178132 (Meeting ID: 841 4517 8132)
NB: the event will be held in-person and online.
Sandew in his latest book titled Decolonizing The Mind – A guide to decolonial theory and practice argues that the decolonial theory should be regarded as a comprehensive, coherent and integral theoretical framework much as Liberalism and Marxism, two major schools of philosophies from the European Enlightenment. While Liberalism has developed as the theoretical foundation of the rulers of the colonial world civilization, Marxism developed as a philosophy of liberation for many social movements in the Global South, although it is rooted in the European Enlightenment. With the fall of the West and the rise of the Rest, and with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc a new theoretical framework has arisen in the past decades under the label of Decolonial Theory which is a critique of the European Enlightenment as a whole.
How does this new framework relate to Marxism? Are there similarities, differences, agreements or disagreements? Join us in the exploration.
