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Decolonising Our Minds
Добавлен 28 ноя 2014
Decolonising SOAS: Student perspectives
SOAS University of London is currently celebrating it's centenary year: this marks 100 years since SOAS was founded as a colonial establishment in 1916. British Imperialist and politician Lord Curzon discussed the idea of founding an institution to aid the British Imperial Mission to city bankers at the time as a "necessary furniture of Empire." As such
Decolonising Our Minds produced a film to interrogate the colonial history of the university as part of a wider campaign called "Decolonising SOAS". This campaign aims to push SOAS to acknowledge and make reparations for its colonial history.
In the SOAS Students' Union priorities, students voted "Decolonising the curriculum" as the number...
Decolonising Our Minds produced a film to interrogate the colonial history of the university as part of a wider campaign called "Decolonising SOAS". This campaign aims to push SOAS to acknowledge and make reparations for its colonial history.
In the SOAS Students' Union priorities, students voted "Decolonising the curriculum" as the number...
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Please keep in mind you are listening to the extremely privileged of our civilization.
Seems to be a group of students who are absolutely determined to remain in their comfort zones and expects university teaching to be about them.
This is not only a fantastic intro to SOAS as a whole, but one of the only videos I've seen that not only gives critical agency to the students, but especially highlights the deep multilayered ironies of the university.
I agree, the hatred of Europe and people of European descent at SOAS made me feel right at home.
I'll be attending SOAS in the fall and I truly appreciate this video and previous students experiences. Thank you!
There's a strong whiff of Neo-Socialist bullshit here. Universities and academia in general appear to me to have gone mad. Iv'e been watching the Ivory Tower brigade for the past 60 years but it is in the past 30 years that the madness has really become apparent... and it is dangerous, as will be seen in the coming 20/30 years unless sanity returns.
On the one hand, universities position themselves as bastions of equality and diversity, liberal in their outlook and at the forefront of instigating change in their contributions to knowledge and adding to the experiences of students. Yet, on the other hand, they fail to represent the communities they serve; they continue to be dominated by those from white, middle class backgrounds to the exclusion of others. There are only 80 black professors in the UK compared to 13295 who are white (ECU, 2017).
Kick these fuckers out and make britain great again
This is a very bad idea and will lead to much unfortunate action in the future if pursued.
On the one hand, universities position themselves as bastions of equality and diversity, liberal in their outlook and at the forefront of instigating change in their contributions to knowledge and adding to the experiences of students. Yet, on the other hand, they fail to represent the communities they serve; they continue to be dominated by those from white, middle class backgrounds to the exclusion of others. There are only 80 black professors in the UK compared to 13295 who are white (ECU, 2017).
Very disturbing, hope that the idea of Meritocracy and Individual Treatment suffers in Western culture. Although it is looking less and less likely.
Africa was decolonised way too soon. The societies there are not advanced enough for the most part to operate successfully. Hence Rhodesia was stable, successful and civilised, but Zimbabwe has gone to the dogs.
Well, we won't have needed to be stabilized if we were not destablized by land grabbing, slavery and genocide all perpetrated by white colonisers.
Oh bore off. Why don't you all focus on the shit that is going on in modern day Africa, which has nothing to do with Britain. Or better still, if you hate the UK so much, do us all a favour and FUCK OFF!
If you have the luxury of choosing to spend years of your life studying a sociology degree, then you aren't being oppressed. And there's nothing sacred and beyond criticism in academia. Actually if you can disprove someone else's work and reveal previously unknown knowledge you will be celebrated. There isn't any racial monopoly on knowledge. It's bizarre what you are teaching young, naive, malleable minds at this "school".
On the one hand, universities position themselves as bastions of equality and diversity, liberal in their outlook and at the forefront of instigating change in their contributions to knowledge and adding to the experiences of students. Yet, on the other hand, they fail to represent the communities they serve; they continue to be dominated by those from white, middle class backgrounds to the exclusion of others. There are only 80 black professors in the UK compared to 13295 who are white (ECU, 2017).
@@ramatgan1 Yeah, that's because this is Great Britain which is still, for the moment, a predominantly white nation going back some 10,000 years. Is that an acceptable explanation?
fuck you and everything you stand for. Africa is now a fucking shithole without colonial rule. Your marxist agenda doesn't do any good
So why the fuck are you people here? or why did you relatives come here?
SOAS gets a well Sore Ass!!
wow, looks like the alt-right looked up from their cheeto-covered hairy navels to make some enlightening comments on this vid...
"Everyone that has a different opinion than mine is Alt-Right" by AF2
i hate how the comment section is full of people that are super ignorant or just plain out racist. i reported some of the worst cases, i hope they stay away, but don't they ever wonder how they find themselves making arguments that they share with people that will literally comment blatently racist things? anyway, the development is really good in my opinion. anyone who says that knowledge doesn't know colour/race needs to sit down and do some very very basic reading on the sociology of knowledge - literally after 10 pages you'll see that you are in fact arguing against everything social sciene has established in the last 20 years. sorry, but your opinion is not valid only because you typed it.
Knowledge and truth is absolute, there is no such thing as "knowing colour/race knowledge". People have recognised this fact from 3000 B.C in Ancient Egypt, right up until the present day, through the Bible, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Isaac Newton and Descartes.
Do some real learning for yourself not what you are spoon fed at uni.... and please try to annotate so that we may better understand what you are attempting to express. Lack of upper case is not acceptable as correct and useful English.
@@kenhutley971 lmao butthurt boomer
Non-Westerners in the west want whites out.
Alex Cameron I think no one wants that, speaking from my own experience. I think they want to be allowed to engage & participate openly and freely and just be part of the sociocultural experience they were sold when they applied to the university. For that happen there needs a diversity in the management of the university in general to get their voices and desires represented.
Why does it matter so much that other students are brown? There are no black professors because blacks don't study enough
Yeah, you should be asking who in brown as the brown from South Asia you see on SOAS campus are upper caste and were the collaborator of British. Upper castes are not the representative of all the brown people.
Why kind of nonsense is that. If it wasn't for white privilege and institutional racism white students would be at the bottom of the rope. Minorities achieve far more.
Abeera Khan: MA (Gender studies) LOL
Do you know what the great thing about knowledge is? It cares not about the color of its owners. I could only tolerate the first ten cringeworthy minutes of this video, but I can say with confidence that there is no argument for an epistemological reform on the horizon. Instead, we have a bunch of naive, entitled, professional victims who confuse the essential challenging and evidentialist nature of universities with a place about feelings, mollycoddling and sensitivity. These worthless kids are enemies of decency, freedom, and reason. Indeed, some of these precious products of victimhood propaganda don't even understand the relationship between the financial value of an academic degree and economic demand. Another professional victim is worried about microaggressions - a concept created to fill the highly relevant void between being pleasant and performing a gesture so slight in its meaning that it could only offend the most insecure, overreactive, unreasonable baby. The next snowflake worries about equality. Not equality of opportunity, of course. No, no. Rather, we get the tired old Marxist definition of equality: equality of outcome. Yes, because when you have asymmetric data pertaining to wealth, employment, and education, something must've gone wrong. God forbid that the midget didn't make the basketball team because of his inability to produce sufficient results. Oh no, institutional midgetism is most likely the problem. There's only one kind of diversity these people don't respect, and it's the most important version: Intellectual diversity.
the word "reason" is loaded with a gr8 history of dominance, violence, and conflict.
On the one hand, universities position themselves as bastions of equality and diversity, liberal in their outlook and at the forefront of instigating change in their contributions to knowledge and adding to the experiences of students. Yet, on the other hand, they fail to represent the communities they serve; they continue to be dominated by those from white, middle class backgrounds to the exclusion of others. There are only 80 black professors in the UK compared to 13295 who are white (ECU, 2017).
It's no wonder these people created nothing but shit.
yes the great black African thinkers......
aime cesaire
frantz fanon
@@startmakingsense2071 his french and west indies that's not African.
This is really very good. One thing I always admired about SOAS, was the student body's willingness to critique and self-analyse the university. It is a privilege to go to an institution, whatever its quirks and inadequacies, that has a mission to de-mystify the world for everyone. And where individual students embody that. For those who engaged in that on a big or small scale, I don't think that ever leaves you.
great stuff. was their a reason for the jump editing?
Leigh Blackall Yes, the students were unable to articulate themselves efficiently