When

Wednesdays 4pm - 6pm
Fortnightly from 09/10 during the semester

Where

The Virgil Building, Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1JW. A 2 minute walk from Bath Spa train station.

Room number for each session specified below.

Note

Space is limited in the room, so if you would like to join us we ask that you commit to attending at least 2 of the 3 first sessions, and please email d.teggi@bath.ac.uk, stating your name and institution, to check there's space.

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At Bath, our first set of Study Group readings will be on decolonial and feminist epistemologies and analyses. Our first text is Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch. Following Federici, we will be tackling Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ work (2008; 2014; 2018) on decolonial epistemology. Each session will be facilitated by somebody from Bath SSCT.

We hope that local students will join in (we will meet in the centre of Bath), and that other participating institutions will establish their own Study Groups.

We are proposing to organise a half-day workshop on Decolonising Critique, in conjunction with the newly funded POP-UP RESEARCH CENTRE/CLUSTER Decolonising Knowledge & Practice, led by Ana C Dinerstein, Luisa Enria, and Peter Manning, from the Department of Social and Policy Sciences. We will keep you updated!

Reading List

09/10 Session 1: Federici (VB 2.28)
Introduction (6 pages)
Chapter 1: All the World Needs a Jolt: Social Movements and political Crisis in Medieval Europe (30 pages)
-sets scene: crisis of feudalism as precursor to rise of capitalism; labour relations and social reproduction under feudalism

Facilitator: Diana Teggi
Text available here

Session 2 Federici (23/10, VB 3.07)

Chapter 2: The Accumulation of Labour and the Degradation of Women: Constructing "Difference" in the "Transition to Capitalism" (55 pages)
-the major theoretical chapter

Facilitator: Josie Hooker

Session 3 Federici (06/11, VB 2.28)

Chapter 4 The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe (40 pages):

brings Ch. 2 and 3 together in an historical analysis of the witch hunt

 + One of the remaining chapters (facultative): 3. The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against the Rebel Body (20 pages) or 5. Colonization and Christianization: Caliban and Witches in the New World (20 pages).

Facilitator: María José Ventura Alfaro

Session 4 Fanon (27/11, VB 2.28) 

Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre and Ch. I On Violence (62 pages)

Facilitator: Kalyan Kumar
Text available here

Session 5 Fanon (11/12, VB 2.28)

Ch. IV On National Culture and Conclusion (40 pages)

Facilitator: Maurício Barbosa Fortuna
Text available here

Session 6 de Sousa Santos (08/01, VB 2.28)

Preface, Manifestos and Introduction Chapter (54 pages circa)

Facilitator: Callum Cockbill
Text available here