Sumários
Knowledge Production (I): What do we know? The geopolitics of hegemonic knowledge making.
28 Outubro 2025, 16:30 • Thomas Gerhard Erich Muhr
Student presentations. Presentation texts:
Collyer, F. M. (2018). Global patterns in the publishing of academic knowledge. Current Sociology, 66(1), 56–73.
Lynch, R., Young, J. C., Jowaisas, C., Sam, J., Boakye-Achampong, S., Garrido, M., & Rothschild, C. (2023). ‘The tears don’t give you funding’: Data neocolonialism in development in the Global South. Third World Quarterly, 44(5), 911–929.
Knowledge Production (I): What do we know? The geopolitics of hegemonic knowledge making.
27 Outubro 2025, 16:30 • Thomas Gerhard Erich Muhr
This session served to take a closer look at the hierarchical, colonial power structure inherent in the production of knowledge. This included scrutinising the geopolitical global division of labour regarding knowledge production (e.g., the North as a generator/provider of theory and methodology, the South as a consumer of these and site for fieldwork and knowledge extraction); how European knowledge became universalised; and the role of the European university in producing knowledge about ‘the other’, which legitimated colonisation from early on, and the role of the North/West-dominated global neoliberal corporate university regime in reproducing coloniality (e.g., global ‘league tables of universities, North-centric publishing, citation and evaluation practices/patterns).
Mapping decolonial struggle and thought in a colonised world
7 Outubro 2025, 16:30 • Thomas Gerhard Erich Muhr
Student presentations. Presentation texts:
Mapping decolonial struggle and thought in a colonised world
6 Outubro 2025, 16:30 • Thomas Gerhard Erich Muhr
Development of a more systematic understanding of global South liberation struggle and thought over space:time, in their anti-colonial, post-colonial and decolonial manifestations. Centred around the conceptual difference between de/colonisation and de/coloniality, we discussed the decolonial school of thought as a broad, cross- or transdisciplinary movement that bridges (has the potential to bridge) the divisions between the materialist and culturalist paradigms towards understanding and acting upon the world.
The global South and global development: histories, conceptions, methodologies, representations.
30 Setembro 2025, 16:30 • Thomas Gerhard Erich Muhr
Student presentations and plenary discussion. Presentation texts:
Macleod, A. (2020). Manufacturing consent in Venezuela: Media misreporting of a country, 1998–2014. Critical Sociology, 46(2), 273–290.
Obeng-Odoom, F. (2024). China–Africa Relations in The Economist, 2019–2021. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 59(3), 1000–1017.