To ‘decolonise’ education, we need to ask different questions

Universities often reproduce colonial logics by exploiting, commodifying and diluting the very ‘thing’ that was to set us free, says Manvir Grewal

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March 9, 2021

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March 15, 2021

Twitter: @ManvirKaurG

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