21 July 2020 – On July 17th 2020 I was officially invited to become a member of the expert group that is to assist the Special Commission of the Belgian Parliament tasked with: “het onderzoek over Congo-Vrijstaat (1885 – 1908) en het Belgisch koloniaal verleden in Congo (1908-1960), Rwanda en Burundi (1919-1962), de impact hiervan…
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On Babies and Bathwater – full TEXT
On December 7th 2017 I gave a Sussex Development Lecture in which I offer a conversation between personal experiences, reflections and decolonial scholarship to reflect on the fundamental, practical, institutional and epistemological implications of recognising the coloniality in the international development project. When we seek to part with the coloniality but not with the desire…
[Video] On Babies and Bathwater: Decolonising Development Studies
In this Sussex Development Lecture (7 December 2017), I offer a conversation between personal experiences, reflections and decolonial scholarship to reflect on the fundamental, practical, institutional and epistemological implications of recognising the coloniality in the international development project. When we seek to part with the coloniality but not with the desire and imperative of global…
Letter from my student. Why #DecolonisingEducation matters.
This is a letter I received from one of my graduating undergrad students in International Development Studies this July 21, 2017 at the University of Portsmouth. However deeply flattering (as well as resonating so much with my own journey) these words are to me personally, this ain’t no bragging exercise. I share my student’s words…
From the Everyday to IR: In Defence of the Strategic Use of the R-word
To cite this article: Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (2016) From the Everyday to IR: In Defence of the Strategic Use of the R-word, Postcolonial Studies, 19:2, 191-200, DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2016.1254016 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2016.1254016 Published online: 17 Jan 2017. Abstract Rather than scrutinising who is a racist or not in John Hobson’s seminal work on…
Migration and the Need to Decolonize (Hegemonic Thought)
(This short piece was written in the Summer of 2016 for the Global Dialogues publication of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg, Germany during my visiting Fellowship there. You find the full publication here.) Looking at the world from and in Europe today, the old continent seems to be grappling with…
Angela Davis on activism, prisons, Obama, Palestine,…[VIDEO]
Angela Davis in Brussels @ULB on May 14 2012 accepting her honourary doctorate and @ press conference in Hotel Metropole, Brussels on May 15 2012 speaking on: activism, prison industrial complex, gender, Palestine, racism, Occupy, Obama, civil rights movements, DSK, religious fundamentalism,… must watch! … on Obama … on the prison industrial complex 1 …
// Olivia U. Rutazibwa 