Discussing Decolonisation: Decolonising Writing with Dr Amita Nijhawan (UAL)

Decolonising Writing 

In this workshop, we’ll explore and practice techniques that writers and storytellers use to make their writing come alive. We will explore evocative and descriptive writing, space and character, and metaphor and tension in the context of creative, performative, autoethnographic and academic pieces of writing. We’ll reflect on how these techniques help us disrupt hegemonic modes of academic writing and examine normative structures and hierarchies in which academic writing is published. These techniques challenge ideas of who gets to write, how they get to write and what they get to write about.

If you’d like to read more about this kind of work, here is one of my recent blogposts on Decolonial Dialogues.

Speaker bio:

You can also read Amita’s blog post in response to the first event of our 2023/24 Discussing Decolonisation series here.

Booking info:

Booking for this event will be available via Eventbrite from October 2024.

Please email Lucy Potter (l.potter@yorksj.ac.uk) and/or Dr Laura Key (l.key@yorksj.ac.uk) if you have any questions about the event or the series in general.