Postcoloniality, race, and inequality in the academy: Decolonizing the social sciences

This paper will discuss some of the key challenges and barriers around decolonizing the social sciences. Drawing upon insights from a range of critical thinkers across the humanities, the paper seeks to challenge the reproduction of Eurocentric, white, colonial knowledges in favour of a postcolonial approach to the study of modern society. The paper will demonstrate the way in which a close engagement with postcolonial thought in the social sciences might be beneficial not only for the discipline itself, but also for institutions, students, and faculties. The paper goes onto suggest that if we are serious about radically transforming our academic spaces and structures in a bid to move forward with the times, then post/decolonial thinking may be the key to unlock such change.

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