The inauguration of the sub-theme at the UKFIET conference brought together an amazing diversity of researchers and practitioners with multiple concerns and interests in the ‘hot topics’ of decolonisation, knowledge, power and politics.
This is the first time a sub-theme on Decolonisation has featured in the UKFIET conference. While long overdue, it is the potential to ‘disrupt’ and offer reconfigurations of the field that excites us the most.
It is the potential to ‘disrupt’ that excites us most about this conference theme – Decolonisation, politics, knowledges and power. The invitation is to engage critically with the colonial matrix of power and the way it operates through knowledge, theory and practice in education and development.