Voices From Peripheries: Voices of Resistance Explicit

by amira benali

Have you ever asked yourself if terms such as general truth or universal knowledge make any sense? Whose history are we learning at school? And How much of human knowledge are we missing? Why are the voices of vast parts of the world silenced? Or at best remembered in wars, natural disasters or in a postcard as an object of exotism? How does the world look like from the so-called peripheries? Voices from the peripheries is a ... 

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Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • Episode 7: Interview with Gerlov van Engelenhoven on Postcolonial Memories and Silence as resistance

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    Episode 7: Interview with Gerlov van Engelenhoven on Postcolonial Memories and Silence as resistance

    S01 E07
    01:59:33
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    Gerlov van Engelenhoven is a cultural theorist and assistant professor at Leiden University, Centre for the Arts in Society in the Netherlands. His research is about voice and silence in postcolonial memory practices, focusing on the Moluccan Community in the Netherlands. In this episode, Gerlov, through the history and present of the Indonesian Mollucan community in the Netherlands, discusses different cases where both silences and voices shape resistance and open possibilities for liberation and reparation for the postcolonial subjects. Check his book 👉🏽Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences" was published in Open Access with Amsterdam University Press in 2022.

  • Episode 6 (In Arabic): Interview with Aymen Amayed: Why food sovereignty matters?

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    Episode 6 (In Arabic): Interview with Aymen Amayed: Why food sovereignty matters?

    S01 E06
    01:44:25
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    Aymen Amayed is a Fellow researcher At the Arab Reform Initiative. Agronomist, researcher and political activist, he worked in Tunisian civil society and engaged with multiple organizations and grassroots social movements. His main research and work are about environmental and ecological issues. In this episode, I discuss with Aymen Amayed issues related to the political economy of agriculture, particularly the food sovereignty question in Tunisia and countries of the global south.

  • Episode 5: Interview with Caroline Rodrigues on Gender, Race and Violence

    Episode 5: Interview with Caroline Rodrigues on Gender, Race and Violence

    S01 E05
    01:19:25

    Caroline Rodriguez Silva is a PhD candidate at Fundacao Getúlio Vargas EAESP. Her field of research relates to gender, race, class, and intersectional studies and social justice. Her thesis focuses on the violence against women in organisations and corporations. Caroline is the founder of Nucleus of Studies Amefricanidades (NEA), an initiative that seeks dialogue on racial, gender, sexuality, and geopolitical issues between the academic market and society. Moreover she works as a consultant on gender and race pedagogies applied from early childhood education until university curricula.

  • Episode 3: Interview with Dona Chambers on the struggle of teaching Gender and Race at the University

    Episode 3: Interview with Dona Chambers on the struggle of teaching Gender and Race at the University

    S01 E03
    46:27

    Donna is a professor of tourism at the University of Sunderland in the Uk. Her work focuses on the representation of women and race in the context of tourism. She is also interested in the link between heritage and national identities, postcolonial and decolonial epistemologies in research and teaching, visual methods, sexuality and critical and innovative approaches to tourism research. Donna is the Convener of a cross-faculty Interdisciplinary Research Network on Race, Class and Ethnicity (RaCE).

  • Episode 2: Interview with Marcelo Nogueira on dreams and Amerindian perspectivism

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    Episode 2: Interview with Marcelo Nogueira on dreams and Amerindian perspectivism

    S01 E02
    45:40
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    Marcelo Nogueira is a PhD student at FGV Sao Paulo in Brazil. His PhD project focuses on dreams and Amerindian perspectivism as a way to decolonize organisations.