Thinking Decolonially Through An Intersectional Lens

Avtar Brah (Professor Emerita in Sociology at Birkbeck) presents the inaugural Centre for Women's Study lecture on intersectional approaches to decolonisation. The presentation will address how coloniality/decoloniality analytical frames raise issues of borders and boundaries, and how questions of ethnicity, nationalism, national identity and belonging are central to conceptualising borders. Raising the question of how diasporas are created in the world and  how the project of ‘politically Black feminism’ has been at the forefront of enacting decolonial politics. The presentation will conclude with a consideration of coalition politics which are centrally concerned with questions of equality, rights and justice.