Gender Academy

Decolonial Perspectives and Methods in Research on Social Reproduction

Seminar

Date: Monday 20 October 2025

Time: 15.00 – 16.20

Location: Hybrid seminar, Zoom and Room 1607, Department of Education, Stockholm University

A seminar in the Decolonial Feminisms Seminar Series at Stockholm University.

Professor Akua. O. Britwum from the University of Western Cape, Dept of Labour and Human Resource Studies, University of Cape Coast,
Ghana and Professor Shirin Rai at the SOAS, University of London, Department of Politics and International Studies, will meet in a conversation. They will share with us how they have approached the concept of Decoloniality and how they have worked with decolonial perspectives and methods in their research on Social Reproduction.

Picture: TianaZZ / Pixabay

The seminar will be online, but it will be possible to meet at Stockholm University, Department of Education to watch the dialogue jointly and participate in the QA that will follow after the conversation:

Time: 20th October 15.00- 16.20 (CEST)

NB! Room 1607 is not located on the Frescati campus, but behind the Museum of Natural History.

For questions, please contact paula.mahlck@edu.su.se.

No registration needed.

Suggested readings

Britwum, A. O., & Scully, B. (2020). Social Reproduction at End Moments: Land, Class Formation and Rural Economies in Ghana and South Africa. In D. Francis, I. Valodia, & E. Webster, Inequality Studies from the Global South (pp. 183-200). New York: Routledge

Scully, B., & Britwum, A. O. (2019). Labour Reserves and Surplus Populations: Northern Ghana and the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Journal of Agrarian Change, 19(3), 407-426

Mezzadri, A., (she/her), Rai, S. M., (she/her), Stevano, S., (she/her), Alessandrini, D., (she/her), Bargawi, H., (she/her), Elias, J., (she/her), … Wöhl, S., (she/her). (2025). Pluralizing social reproduction approaches. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 27(1), 6–33

Warm welcome!

Paula, Fataneh and Tanushree

Last updated: September 25, 2025

Source: The Gender Academy

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