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How do you 'decolonise' something?
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How do you 'decolonise' something?

Numerous UKRI-funded studies are designed to "decolonise"

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Charlotte Gill
Jun 04, 2024
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During my trawls of UKRI funding grants, I’ve noticed that the word “decolonise”/ “decolonising” comes up A LOT.

Search for “decolonise” and 997 projects are found, 366 are “active” - in other words, going on right now.

A caveat: not every one of these results is about “decolonise” in the “British Colonial Rule” sense. For instance this one:

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