Drkasembelicentre.org Research Lab is a Virtual Online Platform that hosts Socio-Cultural and Intellectual Conversations that help to understand continued forms of Colonial, Racial and Epistemic violence. It is an awareness – knowledge sharing, intellectual and activistic space. It hosts two major Writing and Research Support programmes:

• Reading Group
• Writing Club

The Research Lab creates awareness by providing reading texts, inviting guest readers and guest discussants. The final conversations are published on our website. The Research Lab acts as the overall publication platform for Research, Cultural and Intellectual Discussions.

Reading Group

The Reading Group online space shares selected reading materials for a conversation once a month.

This how the Reading Group works:

• It invites the selected guest readers and experienced scholars and specialists as guest discussants to engage with the readers.
• Each guest reader is allowed to post their interpretations of the texts, then the guest give their expertise interpretations and round up the discussion.

Why Join Drkasembelicentre.org Research Lab

• You to have a virtual reading group and peers
• You access to recent literature
• You meet academic peers and mentors
• You advance various pertinent cultural and intellectual conversations
• You get literature review for your research
• You can add this research group in your CV

You can write to us if you want to participate.

Drkasembelicentre.org Reading Group June 2022

Subject: Epistemic Violence

Target Group

Researchers, students and writers who do not know about Epistemic Violence, writers who do not consider it relevant for their work and writers who want to want to engage more with Epistemic Violence.

Readings

1. Mignolo, Walter D. “The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference.” The South Atlantic quarterly 101.1 (2002): 57–96. Web.
2. Mudimbe, V. Y. The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press, 1988. Print.

Objectives

1. Understand Epistemic Violence.
2. Discuss how we define knowledge for African scholars, Aesthetics of Race, what counts as knowledge.
3. Understand the politics of who African Scholars reference in their research work