***Apologies for cross-posting*** <br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><br></div><div>Dear all,</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Sharing below an article from colleagues and a collective of critical geographers and scholars. I would also like to introduce myself. I am Mary Ann Manahan, an incoming PhD assistant at the Ghent University's Department of Conflict and Development Studies. My research interests cover systemic transformations, political ecology, gender justice, and social movement resistance struggles. </div><div><br></div><div>I also co-facilitate the Beyond Development Global Working Group, along with Miriam Lang and Mabrouka M'break.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to learning and exchanging views/ideas/methods with this group.</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Mary Ann </div><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Gert Van Hecken <br>
<b>Sent:</b> vrijdag 28 augustus 2020 11:27<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Towards a non-extractive and care-driven academia<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Enjust friends,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find below a link to a piece <span>we wrote as a collective in which we reflect on the extractive nature of academia, the colonial legacies and "white gaze" that permeates knowledge "creation" in a growth-oriented
knowledge economy, and the professionalization of social justice critique. We offer thoughts on how we might reclaim what the university could be – a place that equips people with the knowledge they need to unlearn/unmake/dismantle the framings and worldviews
that lend themselves to white supremacy and other forms of oppression more broadly.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="https://beyonddevelopment.net/towards-a-non-extractive-and-care-driven-academy/" target="_blank">https://beyonddevelopment.net/<wbr>towards-a-non-extractive-and-<wbr>care-driven-academy/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>We very much look forward to further feedback, and are very open to a continued exchange of ideas, initiatives, ...<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Warm regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Gert<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Gert T. Van Hecken<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Assistant Professor<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE">Stadscampus – Room S.121<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE">Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE"><a href="mailto:Gert.vanhecken@uantwerpen.be" target="_blank">Gert.vanhecken@uantwerpen.be</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/gert-vanhecken/" target="_blank">https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/<wbr>staff/gert-vanhecken/</a>
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