So if the people in power own all the land, what happens to all the land that remains ‘uninhabited?’
So if the people in power own all the land, what happens to all the land that remains ‘uninhabited?’
Dreams of Decolonization untangles the theories and praxis of decolonization through storytelling from unheard and oppressed perspectives
Dreams of Decolonization was born out of the need for stories that told of a future of justice, transformative change, and an alternative future for the global south and worldwide. In a world headed for biodiversity death, war, lack of natural resources, climate migration, and climate destruction, we must now, more than ever, change the narratives that compound our colonized psyches.
Frustrated with Western hegemonic perspectives, higher education, inaccessibility of stories, and the need for global structural change, allie ho ventures to deconstruct ideas and knowledge into meaningful and understandable stories.
Storytellers
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Jervon Sands
Youth climate activist, educator, poet, and recent Rhodes Scholar from the Bahamas joins us for a conversation about small island development, hegemonic economic systems that disadvantage the global south, and ideas about community.
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Ranjani Prabhakar
One of two in a band with her husband, Ranjani is a musician that focuses on social change, and she is also the Legislative Director for Healthy Communities in the Policy & Legislation (PAL) department at Earthjustice, where she leads a team of advocates dedicated to defending and improving federal safeguards for clean air, clean water, and against toxics exposure.
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Ita Epulef
Mapuche elder, mother, grandmother, and important community elder, (Mama) Ita joins us for a conversation about indigenous justice, values, and trafkintu.
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Ashwin Ravikumar
Environmental organizer and professor of Environmental Studies, Ashwin is a dedicated educator and community member who engages and supports those most marginalized in local and global contexts. He joins us for a conversation about love, immigrant experiences, and societal structures.
"Our first flaw of humanity in beginning globalization, was that we led with the idea of difference. Rather than the similarities between you and me."
"Our first flaw of humanity in beginning globalization, was that we led with the idea of difference. Rather than the similarities between you and me."
What do we even do with all this knowledge of decolonization? What could a decolonial revolution look like realistically?
What do we even do with all this knowledge of decolonization? What could a decolonial revolution look like realistically?
Jervon Sands
“When people are different from us, we fail to understand them. When we fail to understand them, we tend to move towards hate, discrimination, and violence, and towards that territory to tribal nature of, like, ‘Oh, if I don't take, something will be taken from me.’
And so I think the first step and our first flaw in humanity beginning globalization was that we first led with the idea of difference rather than understanding the other’s life.”
Rajesh
“You know, it's not fun to ask countries like the US, the EU, or Japan for money, I think countries are starting to see that this is demeaning. And that technical help is just a continuation of colonial policies. So I think in that sense, international organizations can be used to protect these countries against private interests.”
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