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Call for papers for panel at the Development Studies Association annual conference, University of Manchester, June 27th-29th Global apartheid? Racial inequality in the contemporary global order This panel invites papers that address the theme of racial inequality in the contemporary global order. Since the 1970s, the concept of “global apartheid” has informed much research and activism on this theme, based upon the claim that inequality on a global scale is structured around a colonial axis and what Howard Winant referred to as “a centuries-old pattern of white supremacy”. However, a number of scholars have begun to question the continued relevance

The Citizenship, ‘Race’ & Belonging network presents Epistemic Racism/Sexism:  The Structure of Knowledge in Westernized Universities  A public lecture by Prof. Ramón Grosfoguel (University of California, Berkeley) Monday 12 February 2018, 6-8pm, Park Building 3.01 How is it possible that the canon of thought in all the disciplines of the Social Sciences and Humanities in the Westernized University is based on the knowledge production by a few men from five countries in Western Europe? Professor Grosfoguel turns to the ‘4 genocides/epistemicides’ of the long 16th century: ‘against the Jewish and Muslim origin population in the conquest of Al-Andalus, against indigenous people in