Episode 23: The 'Decolonial Bandwagon’ (with Leon Moosavi)

In this episode Catarina Carvalho and Sara Downton talk to Leon Moosavi about decoloniality, international students, and what he terms the ‘decolonial bandwagon’.

EPISODE NOTES: 

• ‘The Decolonial Bandwagon and the Dangers of Intellectual Decolonisation’
• ‘The Myth of Academic Tolerance: The Stigmatisation of East Asian Students in Western Higher Education’
• The Decolonial Critique network

Dr Leon Moosavi is a sociologist of race and religion. He’s a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. Leon’s research interests fall within three interrelated areas: racism, Orientalism, whiteness, and white privilege; British Muslim converts and Islamophobia; and epistemic decolonisation, decolonising the curriculum, decolonising criminology, the limitations of decolonising projects, and how these initiatives are portrayed in public discourse.

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Edited by Chris Lloyd.