Aralez: Decolonial Blog & learning sessions

Diepte-interview over de koloniale oorsprong en nasleep van WOII met auteur Chris de Ploeg. Een gesprek met Chris de Ploeg over kolonialisme, kapitalisme en fascisme, naar aanleiding van zijn nieuwe boek  De Grote Koloniale Oorlog . Het boek biedt een historische analyse van de Tweede Wereldoorlog door deze binnen een grotere koloniale geschiedenis te plaatsen, wat ons helpt de huidige opkomst van...

Join us for a panel discussion on the environmental devastation in Palestine and South Lebanon, focusing on how settler colonialism exacerbates climate change. Our panel will examine the destructive impact of militarism on ecosystems and communities, covering deforestation, water contamination and biodiversity loss. Expert speakers will highlight the urgent need for sustainable solutions and justi...

“Ik zie geen kleur, want iedereen is gelijk aan mij”, is een veelgebruikte uitdrukking in Nederland. “Positieve discriminatie” in het onderwijs en de arbeidsmarkt stuiten vaak op weerstand en kritiek. Toch voert ECHO, Expertisecentrum Diversiteitsbeleid, al 25 jaar programma’s uit in het kader van positieve actie, de Nederlandse vertaling van “Affirmative Action”, met steun van het Ministerie van...

In this session, we discuss the zine ISRAEL'S WORLDWIDE ROLE IN OPPRESSION by the International Jewish Antizionist Network published in 2012. About the speakers: Chihiro & Chris - both co-founders of Aralez - discuss the role of Israel in apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocides outside of Palestine and reflect on what that means for movements involved in solidarity with Palestine. Resou...

Sinds 7 oktober komen er veel meer meldingen van moslimhaat binnen bij Stichting Meld Islamofobie. Rahma Bavelaar en Ibtissam Abaâziz van de stichting zien dat politici die zich stellig voor Israël uitspreken meewerken aan die toegenomen islamofobie, waarbij Moslims constant als potentiële daders worden gezien. En dat is niet de eerste keer. We zagen hetzelfde patroons tijdens de invasie van Irak...

If we want to strengthen the decolonial movement in Europe, what are aspects we need to be mindful of? What are successes that already have been achieved? And what are challenges we need to tackle? In this Decolonial Learning Session team members of Decolonial Europe Day share their experiences in European civil society on these questions. They will discuss work they do and reflect on what the dec...

In deze decolonial learning session kijken we naar de diverse strategieën voor het verantwoordelijk houden van de krijgsmacht voor oorlogsmisdaden, in het bijzonder gezien de Nederlandse steun aan Israël. We bekijken wat voor pijnpunten er zijn met betrekking tot Nederlandse krijgsmacht en naar uiteenlopende strategieën om onrecht te stoppen; van juridische strategieën tot activistische voorbeelde...

Embark on a courageous and compassionate exploration with us on “Breaking Chains, Building Bridges: A Decolonial Journey through Suriname”. This deeply impactful learning session is an earnest attempt to navigate the painful chapters of Suriname’s history, particularly focusing on the marginalized narratives of the indigenous people who endured profound suffering and continue to face systemic negl...

How can we develop a decolonial feminist pedagogy that is not rooted in supremacy over the non-human? In the book “We Belong to the Earth”, scholar Nadira Amorjee goes into these questions by also looking at the notion of interconnectedness and oneness of being. She does this by looking at concepts of Uhuru and Ubuntu that are prevalent philosophical notions from her home-country, South Africa. Du...

Art collectives Stories of Kathak and CTRL+ALT+IDENTITY respectively emerged in 2019 and 2021. Both collectives walk/dance different paths and histories, but have one thing in common: fighting for social justice for Women of Colour in the Global North, specifically The Netherlands. From our marginalized positions we constantly navigate, negotiate and claim our spaces in dominant white institutions...

This decolonial learning session will focus on decolonizing gender and sexuality in the Dutch Caribbean landscape. Rigid ideas of gender and sexuality are inherently linked to a colonial viewpoint. Through a conversation with Wigbertson Julian Isenia, we will examine the impact of colonialism on ideas of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean and will look at how this can help us deconstruct our un...

About the session: This session will be divided in two parts, the first part will deal with al Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948 and its impact on Palestinian lives to date. Key historical events will be discussed to illustrate the continuation of settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing. The second part will deal with the ideological underpinnings of the settler colonial apartheid scheme th...

Omschrijving Sessie: Tijdens deze Decolonial Learning Session gaan we in gesprek met Sam Pormes over het ontstaan van de beweging voor een onafhankelijk Republiek Maluku Selatan (RMS). Pormes schreef daarover het boek Grijpen naar een Schaduw, het eerste boek van een Molukker over de dekolonisatie van de Molukken. Hij biedt een kritisch perspectief op het Hollandocentrische wereldbeeld dat nog alt...

HERSTEL Conference 2023: 9 Panel Discussion with Samir, Esther, and Guillermo

HERSTEL Conference 2023: 7 Panel Discussion with Kjeld, Fitria, and Pablo

HERSTEL Conference 2023: 6 Panel Discussion with Pravini, Max, and Chau

HERSTEL Conference 2023: 5 Keynote with Sandew Hira

HERSTEL Conference 2023: 3 Opening speech

This session dives into a decolonizing perspective on the role of carbon offsets in global climate politics. The two hour session consist of two parts. First, an interactive workshop will be moderated by Dr. Tamra Gilbertson and Thomas Joseph. Here, the audience will take part in facilitated group activity working to define key concepts in structural colonial oppression.    The seco...

What’s happening in Iran? In this Decolonial Learning Session Setareh Sadeqi, an Iranian based activist, offers insights from inside Iran. With a critical perspective on both Western narratives and Iranian policies, Setareh will reflect on the current protests in Iran. From the impact of the Iranian revolution of 1979 on today’s Iranian society and it’s relationship with the West to the position o...

After the second world war many countries gained their formal independence from their colonizers. However, we still see a reproduction of neo-colonial outcomes and practices that are reproduced within countries, nation states and the borders that were created under colonialism. This can be observed in legal, social, cultural, economic and military infrastructures, to name a few dimensions. Structu...

A conversation – centered around images – about the entangled tradition of Marxism and national liberation – a tradition that emerges out of the October Revolution and that deepens its roots in the anti-colonial conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is an introduction to a wide-ranging conversation that includes many different revolutionary movements, mostly rooted in the con...

Within the context of the global ecological crisis, non-western narratives, under the discourse of decolonization, have emerged as innovative and inspirational perspectives when thinking about current global issues. However, those narratives carry the risk to be subalternalized, extractivized and culturally appropriated by hegemonic epistemology. Those issues strengthened and might even reproduce...

In het kader van Indian History Month geeft Rocher Koendjbiharie een lecture over de impact van het kolonialsime op queer identiteiten in India Het Westen claimt de voorloper te zijn op LHBTQIA+ rechten en ziet zichzelf als de drager van progressieve waarden. Met een wijzende vinger veroordeelt het Westen landen in het Globale Zuiden die de rechten van de LHBTQIA+ gemeenschap onvoldoende waarborge...

www.stichtingaralez.com Ukrainians are now suffering under an illegal and brutal invasion of Russia. International aggression has major consequences and can lead to mass losses of human lives. 2.4 million dead in Iraq. 1.2 million dead in Afghanistan and Pakistan in US war against the Taliban. Can that kind of fate still be prevented in Ukraine? The Western response is caught in a war fever: sanct...