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Peace and conflict studies is a burgeoning field. Yet, it still needs to tackle the legacies of colonialism and its hierarchies; the historical trajectories of conflicts and their embeddedness in global entanglements. In the six episodes of the podcast, we question dominant narratives in dialogue with a diversity of voices within and beyond academia and critically engage with theories and research practices. Join us in our journey of confronting hierarchies.
The guests for this episode were Amya Agarwal & Swati Parashar.
Swati Parashar is Professor in Peace and Development at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her teaching and research have led to academic appointments and fellowships in India, Singapore, UK, US, Ireland, Australia and Sweden. She has also taught at the University of Rwanda in Kigali and at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a member of the Swedish Development Research Network and has also served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of SIDA. Her research interests include feminism, postcolonialism, research methodologies, gender based violence, famines and development in South Asia and East Africa. She is the author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury (Routledge, 2014); co author of Camille Bulcke: The Jesuit Exponent of Ramkatha (Cambridge University Press, 2024); and co author of Ripping, Cutting, Stitching: Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023). She has co edited several books including the Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research; Writing Saved Me; Gender, Silence and Agency in Contested Terrains; and Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations. She has published several journal special issues and articles, policy papers and popular media pieces.
She is a co-editor in chief of the International Feminist Journal of Politics and serves on the advisory boards of other journals as well as the Helsinki University Press. She is also one of the co editors of the book series, Creative Interventions in Global Politics with Rowman and Littlefield, and Gender and Sexuality in Global Politics with Bristol University Press. She contributes regularly to media debates through op eds and blogs and served as Program Co-Chair of the International Studies Association for their 2023 annual convention at Montreal. Swati will be honored as the Distinguished Scholar of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section at the ISA convention at Chicago in 2025.
The episode was moderated by Abdul Karim Ibrahim from the institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
We also want to thank our team behind the scenes for the collaboration and contributions. We want to thank Abdul Karim Ibrahim for the introduction to this episode, Aurelio Cossar for the illustration of the cover and Harry and Tom Parfitt for the Jingle. It was inspired by Sheriff Ghale’s piece called “Nni Yeli”.
For the preparation and recording of the podcast, we want to thank Miriam Bartelmann and Harry Parfitt. Furthermore we want to express our gratitude for the assistance on this podcast to Nora Wolf.
The equipment was provided by the media center of the University library in Freiburg, while Florian Laurösch from Radio Dreyeckland postproduced the podcast – thank you for the help and collaboration.
bell hooks (1994): Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom. New York and London. Routledge.
Jenny Edkins: “Global Politics” as basis of Professor Parashar’s seminar.
Audre Lorde (1984): “Uses of the Erotic”.
Audre Lorde and bell hooks as central Black feminist scholars.
Swati Parashar (2016): “Feminism and Postcolonialism: (En)gendering Encounters”.
Swati Parashar (2017): “Feminism Meets Postcolonialism: Rethinking Gender, State and Political Violence”.
Conversation with J. Ann Tickner and Phillip Darby (2017) on “Feminism and Postcolonialism: The Twain Shall Meet”, edited by Swati Parashar; Video of the conversation.
Katherine Mayo (1927): “Mother India” as an instrument of Indian control and policing bodies.
Women Peace and Security Agenda (UN) promoting the idea of responsibility of Global North to save women. Adopted through Resolution 1325 by the UN Security Council in 2000.
1 in 5 Australian women face intimate partner violence: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Report on Personal Safety (2023).
Chandra Talpade Mohanty and L. H. M. “Lily” Ling as postcolonial feminists.
Swati Parashar’s lecture on the coloniality and violence of famines in the Global South.
Peace Adzo Medie: a feminist and postcolonial scholar who discussed the question of why the burden of decolonising academics lies with non-Whites.
The guests for the first part of this episode was Manuela Boatcă.
Manuela Boatcă is a Professor of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Programme at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has a degree in English and German languages and literatures and a PhD in sociology.
She has published widely on world-systems analysis, decolonial perspectives on global inequalities, gender and citizenship in modernity/coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In 2018 she was awarded an ACLS collaborative fellowship alongside literary scholar Anca Parvulescu, for a comparative project on inter-imperiality in Transylvania. The resulting co-authored book, titled “Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania Across Empires” will be published published in English, German, and Romanian.
The episode was moderated by Abdul Karim Ibrahim from the institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
We also want to thank our team behind the scenes for the collaboration and contributions. We want to thank Abdul Karim Ibrahim for the introduction to this episode, Aurelio Cossar for the illustration of the cover and Harry and Tom Parfitt for the Jingle. It was inspired by Sheriff Ghale’s piece called “Nni Yeli”.
For the preparation and recording of the podcast, we want to thank Miriam Bartelmann and Harry Parfitt. Furthermore we want to express our gratitude for the assistance on this podcast to Nora Wolf.
The equipment was provided by the media center of the University library in Freiburg, while Florian Laurösch from Radio Dreyeckland postproduced the podcast – thank you for the help and collaboration.
How class struggle is the history of all existing societies – Marx Engels (1848): Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Migration, slavery and coloniality as the underside of modernity – Enrique Dussel (1998): The Underside of Modernity.
The guests for the second part of this episode were Susanne Buckley-Zistel & Siddharth Tripathi.
Siddharth Tripathi is a Senior Research Fellow at University of Erfurt where he leads the project on Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict. His primary interest lies in postcolonial and decolonial perspectives in IR and peace and conflict studies especially on epistemic and structural hierarchies that exist in the discipline. He received his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. As part of his research at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels, he has conducted extensive field research in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Berlin and Brussels. He edited the Rowman and Littlefield Handbook on Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South(s) which is a collaborative endeavour of scholars from the Global North and the Global South.
The episode was moderated by Abdul Karim Ibrahim from the institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
We also want to thank our team behind the scenes for the collaboration and contributions. We want to thank Abdul Karim Ibrahim for the introduction to this episode, Aurelio Cossar for the illustration of the cover and Harry and Tom Parfitt for the Jingle. It was inspired by Sheriff Ghale’s piece called “Nni Yeli”.
For the preparation and recording of the podcast, we want to thank Miriam Bartelmann and Harry Parfitt. Furthermore we want to express our gratitude for the assistance on this podcast to Nora Wolf.
The equipment was provided by the media center of the University library in Freiburg, while Florian Laurösch from Radio Dreyeckland postproduced the podcast – thank you for the help and collaboration.
The Eurocentric canon attributes truth only to the western way of knowledge production – Achille Mbembe (2015): Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive
Agenda of Peace by Boutros Boutros Ghali (1992) as the foundation of the understanding of liberal peace, development, etc.
Johan Galtung’s (2007) concepts of structural, cultural, and direct violence
Stuart Hall on the West/Rest-Dichotomy: Stuart Hall (1992): The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power
Edward W. Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi Bhaba as scholars of Postcolonialism
World Systems and Dependency Theory
Aníbal Quijano, Maria Lugones and Walter D. Mignolo as scholars of Decoloniality
Gurminder Bhambra (2014) – Postcolonial and Decolonial dialogues
“Theory is always for someone and for some purpose” – Robert W. Cox (1981): Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory
As a negative example for neglecting colonial legacies: The Interministerial Strategy to Support “Dealing with the Past and Reconciliation (Transitional Justice)” (2019) by German defence, development and foreign ministries
Prof. Cori Wielenga from university of Pretoria who is working on an archive by female mediators
The responsibility of everyone to create a more just world – Paulo Freire (1970): Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Theorists of Hope: Paulo Freire, Gloria Anzaldúa
The guests for this episode were Layla Brown & Filiberto Penados
Layla D. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Layla’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora. She is working on completing her first book manuscript entitled An Anthropology of Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century, an ethnographic exploration of the rise of Pan-African/Feminist activism and social movements in Venezuela and the United States. Layla is also the co-host of a new podcast, “Life. Study. Revolution.” with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly.
Filiberto Penados is a Co-Founder of CELA Belize and a Maya scholar whose work focuses on indigenous education and development. Dr. Penados has a long history of engaged scholarship with indigenous and local communities in Belize and a wealth of experience leveraging this involvement to create unique learning experiences.
Penados has served as a professor at the University of Manitoba, University of Toronto, Galen University, and the University of Belize. He teaches courses on Sustainable Development, Natural Resource Management, and Education, and related fields. He also loves to play the guitar.
The episode was moderated by Abdul Karim Ibrahim from the institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
We also want to thank our team behind the scenes for the collaboration and contributions. We want to thank Abdul Karim Ibrahim for the introduction to this episode, Aurelio Cossar for the illustration of the cover and Harry and Tom Parfitt for the Jingle. It was inspired by Sheriff Ghale’s piece called “Nni Yeli”.
For the preparation and recording of the podcast, we want to thank Rebecca Schmidt, Kristine Dünkelsbühler and Miriam Bartelmann. Furthermore we want to express our gratitude for the assistance on this podcast to Adrién Francoise and Johanna Unewisse.
The equipment was provided by the media center of the University library in Freiburg, who also postproduced the podcast – thank you for the help and collaboration.
Postcolonialism as desire, anticolonial as struggle, decolonial as just fancy words – Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: CUSICANQUI, Silvia Rivera – GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY.
Decoloniality: coloniality and modernity as two sides of the same coin: See e.g. Walter Mignolo: MIGNOLO, Walter – GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY.
Filliberto Penado’s interview on Belizean TV: Belize National Indigenous Council – Maya in South Belize – YouTube.
Juliet Hooker on racism and indigeneity: Juliet Hooker: “The closer you are to being indigenous, to being black, the lower you are in the racial hierarchy” – Nicaraguan Perspectives.
Lebohang Pheko on Feminist Economics: Lebohang Pheko: Feminist economics is everything. The revolution is now! | TED Talk.
An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley on universities: The Meaning of African American Studies | The New Yorker.
Fernando Sarango on pluriversities: Prof. Dr. Fernando Sarango Macas — Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies – FRIAS.
