Decolonising politics curricula: pedagogies, strategies and reflections - virtual roundtable

Chair: Juvaria Jafri (City, University of London)

Participants: Tabitha Poulter (City, University of London), Rima Saini (Middlesex University) , Sahra Taylor (City, University of London), Nadine Zwiener-Collins (UCL)

Making sense of contemporary politics is not only a challenge for scholarly research, but equally for teaching and learning in International Studies. Both the composition of the classroom in UK universities, and the complexity of recent political developments provide key drivers for critical understandings that engage with wider social structures, recognise the global interconnectedness, and move away from Eurocentric, masculine and heteronormative perspectives in knowledge and knowledge production.

This roundtable features a range of university teachers who are engaging with the challenge to diversify and decolonise the curriculum by offering critical perspectives on power relations, inequalities, and marginalisation. We aim to bring together scholars from quantitative political scientists to critical political economists and political theorists. In doing so, all of the participants address the need to disrupt and reconceptualise key concepts and historical narratives.

This event is for BISA members only.