Giti Chandra is currently Research Specialist with the Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (under the auspices of UNESCO) in Reykjavik, teaches at the University of Iceland, and has been Associate Professor, Department of English, at Stephen's College, Delhi. She is the author of The Book of Guardians Trilogy. Sadly, nobody cares about her academic book, a groundbreaking work on violence, although the Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement, has been getting attention. Her (mostly sci-fi) short stories and (mostly sentimental) poetry have been published in various amazing publications.

 

In this episode #1, Urban Trialogue exchanges with Giti Chandra towards mapping her experience regarding her personal and institutional motivations in decolonising teaching and pedagogies among curriculums in India and Iceland, the moments of co-production in her decolonisation experiment and the spatial responses in the context of teaching she urged to propose as part of her journey. The episode also touches upon Giti’s artistic interventions in her classes and daily life; how music, for instance, can be a tool or an anti-tool of a decolonial practice? 

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This session was recorded during the scientific mission at Research Centre Skograd with the support of the “Cost Action 19129 Decolonising Development”. Thank you all for listening!