Thematic area
- Culture and society
Project type
- Research
Country
- South Africa
Duration
- 2016 to present
Partners
- University of the Witwatersrand – History Workshop – prof. Noor Nieftagodien
- University of Johannesburg – Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) – prof. Salim Wally / Linda Chisholm
- University of Cape Town – Centre for Higher Education Development – prof. Kasturi Behari-Leak
It should be positively considered that ASAI (the Association of African Studies in Italy) is endorsing the project via the opening of two tables of discussion, one of which focused on the representations of Africa/Africans in Italy in many perspectives (education, media, job relations)
Scientific supervisor
- Cristiana Fiamingo
Founded by
- PSR UNIMI
Snapshot of project
| Objectives | Beneficiaries |
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| The movement Decolonising knowledge is the intellectual outcome inherited by some South African scholars from the Student Movement #RMF “Rhodes must fall” which happened in South Africa between 2015 and 2018. In Italy the debate about missed teachings from the colonial experience sparked recently (June/July 2020) from the smearing of the Montanelli’s statue, by LUME and a feminist movement in the wake of the #BLM international movement. The journalist boasted in public interviews, every now and then, he “bought” a 12 years old Eritrean girl as a wife, during the IIWW. So the words “racist & rapist” written on the pedestal of the monument, prompted many divergent opinions. Many urban toponyms are challenged right now (names of roads reminding to the colonial past, especially), while the public debate stretches from the removal to the re-signification of statues and monuments. Similar attitudes are still fuelled in South Africa and in the African continent as a whole. | Comparative study between Italy and South Africa |
| Role of UNIMI |
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| The shared webinars so improved these days can be a distance learning Consideration might well be given to a MoU with these research centres, not only for the present conjuncture but also by considering how many faculties every campus I mentioned is composed by. |
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