The Copenhagen Decolonization Collective
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Copenhagen Decolonization Collective
Formerly 'Decolonizing Global Health'
About us
We are an interdisciplinary and intercultural initiative, based in Copenhagen, critically engaged with theories and practices of decolonization. Our work focuses on creating a space for reflection, discussion and learning about the colonial structures that shape our institutions, knowledge systems, and everyday lives. Through awareness-raising and resource-sharing, we seek to challenge dominant narratives.
We are still in the middle of our learning process—we do not claim expertise but approach this work with curiosity, and a commitment to growth. With critical allyship at the core of our work, the collective is open to scholars, students, activists, and practitioners in any field of knowledge, who want to create a space where we can collectively imagine a decolonial future.
What do we do?
The Decolonization Toolkit
The Decolonisation Toolkit (Version 1, Summer 2024) is a visual action guide that encourages the reader to think of decolonisation through different themes.
The Reading Course
This 4-week course will guide you how through an early introduction on decolonization. In this course, you will uncover how colonial structures are deeply ingrained in the crises we face in health.
The Decolonization Library
In the decolonization library we gathered the works that helped us the most in our undergoing learning trajectory, so you have to search less.
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Decolonisation is the process of undoing the colonialism that has dominated governments, economies, and ideologies for the past centuries. We cannot speak of decolonization, without mentioning inequality and power imbalances. Even though most former colonies have been liberated, we still see a global domination of the Global North in access to resources, labour and money. This inequality, produced by colonialism, is maintained by the hegemonic power imbalance between the Global Minority World (Global North) and Global Majority World (Global South).
Colonialism is a system in which everything produced in the Global Minority World, -ideas, products, knowledge- is valued "higher", and "more powerful", while the Global Majority World remains belittled and devalued. One of the goals of decolonization aims to shift this narrative, and disrupt this power imbalance.
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We are a collective based in Copenhagen, who aspire to change the dominant narratives in science and practice within the Global Minority World. Besides that, we aim to create a space of awareness-raising and knowledge-sharing. Please note that we are still students and do not claim expertise. Instead, we want to build a community, where we can learn from each other (and unlearn our colonial biases).
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