Reading Decoloniality
Reading Decoloniality produces and disseminates international and interdisciplinary scholarship for liberation. It supports a culture of generous and critical thought while tackling pressing issues of knowledge, precarity and power across flexible and hybrid scholarly forms and to a broad audience.
Reading Decoloniality was founded in 2021 as a working group at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick, and has been a publication since 2023.
Reading Decoloniality is currently co-edited by Asanda Ngoasheng, Teodora Todorova and Claire French. The team consists of programming and editorial boards of interdisciplinary scholars working in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa.
There are important connections between the public and globally attended reading groups and the high-quality, short-form publication.
Reading group
Reading Decoloniality operates with an open membership, allowing individuals—regardless of institutional affiliation—to participate in monthly reading groups and talks. Readers meet monthly, often on the first Wednesday of each month, to hear from a speaker presenting their work, or others’.
Publication
Speakers publish short-form reflections on decolonial discourses that are critically located in their place, moment, and wider context, and in transparent dialogue with readers. Articles are published alongside the minutes from the reading group for transparency and access to ongoing, oral, and collaborative research processes.