Two weeks ago, we were lucky to have Stine H. Bang Svendsen visiting us in Bergen! She was invited to give a workshop on decolonial perspectives organized by our network in Bergen. Stine is an associate professor at the Department of Teacher Education at NTNU, and her research interests focus on racism, sexuality, and coloniality in education within the Nordic context.
A number of people affiliated with our network participated in the workshop in which Stine introduced us to the decolonial critique and how it could be relevant to our research on migration. In the workshop, Stine gave a brief introduction on decolonial perspectives and how they are related to questions of positionality and activism followed by an interactive session where participants were asked to discuss how such perspectives could be incorporated in their research.
Stine also had a master class with one of our colleagues, Ann Cathrin Corrales-Øverlid. The title of the text was “Peruvian Migrant Mothers and Culinary Entrepreneurs: Negotiating Notions of Motherhood”. In this text she has tried to use decolonial critique to how one treats concepts like gender equality and motherhood in the context of South-North migration. She received constructive comments from Stine, and from the other participants. The master class was open to everyone in order for us to bring the discussion down to text level, and in order to show the different ways in which decolonial perspectives could be applied. During the day, we also had lunch with Stine at Café Christie where we continued the discussion on relevant issues related to our research.
All in all, it was a very productive day, and we thank Stine for taking the time to come to Bergen and for sharing her knowledge with us.
Written by Amany Selim
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