Selected Resources
Decoloniz(s)ing Knowledge Through Performance and Technology
Reading. Learning. Wondering.



Foundational
Decoloniz(s)e
Auerbach Jahajeeah, Jess. “What a new university in Africa is doing to decolonise social sciences.” The Conversation. May 13, 2017. https://theconversation.com/what-a-new-university-in-africa-is-doing-to-decolonise-social-sciences-77181
Barker, Joanne. “Decolonizing the Mind.” Rethinking Marxism, vol. 30, no. 2, 2018, pp. 208–31. https://www.academia.edu/37449487/Decolonizing_the_Mind_2018_Essay
Betts, Raymond F. “Decolonization: A Brief History of the Word.” Beyond Empire and Nation: The Decolonization of African and Asian Societies, 1930s-1970s, edited by ELS BOGAERTS and REMCO RABEN, Brill, 2012, pp. 23–38. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h2zm.5. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
Etherington, Ben, and Jarad Zimbler. “Decolonize Practical Criticism?” English (London), vol. 70, no. 270, 2021, pp. 227–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efab017.
Garba, Tapji, and Sara‐Maria Sorentino. “Slavery Is a Metaphor: A Critical Commentary on Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s ‘Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.’” Antipode, vol. 52, no. 3, 2020, pp. 764–82, https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12615.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, and Jack Halberstam. “Decolonize Media: Tactics, Manifestos, Histories.” Cinema Journal, vol. 57, no. 4, 2018, pp. 120–23, https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2018.0054.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, et al. Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education : Mapping the Long View. Edited by Linda Tuhiwai Smith et al., Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. “Decolonising the Mind.” Reading Postcolonial Theory, Ed. Choudhury, Bibhash. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. 54-72. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315646671/reading-postcolonial-theory-bibhash-choudhury
Tuck,Eve and K. Wayne Yang. "Decolonization is not a Metaphor." Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, 1-40
Methods
Knowledge Production
Arlander, Anette “Artistic Research as Speculative Practice” March 31, 2017. Journal for Artistic Research. https://jar-online.net/en/artistic-research-speculative-practice
Baldauf, Anette. Spaces of Commoning : Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday. Sternberg Press, 2016.
Hayford, M., Kattwinkel, S. (2018). Introduction: Why Frame the Performing Arts as High-Impact Practice?. In: Hayford, M., Kattwinkel, S. (eds) Performing Arts as High-Impact Practice. The Arts in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72944-2_1
July, L. P. F. “Lecture Performance Festival” AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, 2020 (21), 160–170. https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i21.360
Manola K. Gayatri, "PaR and Decolonisation: Notemakings from an Indian and South African Context" Performance as Research : Knowledge, Methods, Impact. Ed. Arlander, Annette, et al., First edition. Routledge, 2018. https://www.routledge.com/Performance-as-Research-Knowledge-methods-impact/Arlander-Barton-Dreyer-Lude-Spatz/p/book/9781138068711
Maxwell, Ian. “Teaching Performance Studies with Brecht’s Lehrstück Model: The Measures Taken.” The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 41, Boydell and Brewer Limited, 2019, pp. 76–97, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787441392.009.
Ridlen, Timothy. Intelligent Action : A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia. 1st ed., Rutgers University Press, 2024, https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978837737.
Seita, S. (2022). “Playing with Knowledge: On Lecture Performances” TDR : Drama Review, 66(3), 78–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204322000314
Wilson, Jenny. Artists in the University : Positioning Artistic Research in Higher Education. 1st ed. 2018., Springer Nature Singapore, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5774-8.
Machines
AI
Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Working Group. (2021) Indigenous AI. https://www.indigenous-ai.net
Lewis, Jason et al. (2018) Making Kin with the Machines. Journal of Design and Science. [online] https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/lewis-arista-pechawis-kite/release/1
Skawennati (2024) Skawennati homepage (new). https://skawennati.com/home/
Kite, Suzanne. (2024) Homepage Suzanne Kite. [online] https://www.kitekitekitekite.com/
