The 2017 Annual International Conference will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in London, from 30 August to 1 September 2017, with workshops and an opening event and drinks reception on 29 August 2017.
Decolonising geographical knowledges aims to query implicitly universal claims to knowledges associated with the west, and further interrogate how such knowledges continue to marginalise and discount places, people and knowledges across the world. Debates around decolonising geographical knowledges have become increasingly important during the past decade among teachers, activists and academics, and draw upon postcolonial, indigenous studies and other critical perspectives. The challenge is to re-think scholarly epistemic and institutional forms of knowledge production that privilege predominantly western over "southern" knowledges and ways of seeing. Such debates in turn influence how geographers and geographical knowledge engage with schools, students, policy-makers and third sector organisations. The 2017 Annual Conference offers an opportunity to take these debates forward in the context of research on socio-natures, the Anthropocene, and multi-scalar inequalities but also, more widely, by demonstrating the power of decolonial geographical thinking to work relationally across disciplinary boundaries and to expand the scope of decolonial practice in research. The conference aims to encourage debate about these issues including potential contributions from decolonising geographical knowledges to existing approaches and methodologies in human and physical geography.
Further information can be found on the website of 2017s conference.