Carte collective / Colletive Map YOUSSEF EL IDRISSI,

Youssef El Idrissi Constance Léon Fatine Arafati Abir Gasmi Salma Kossemtini Kawthar Benlakhdar

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With their tutor Dalila Mahdjoub, the participants of the thematic group on decolonial thinking studied the insidious persistence of hierarchies between human groups in the relations that the West maintains with its former colonies and with their diaspora. A collective map inviting disorientation (“to lose the North” in French) is followed by individual proposals, often selfreflexive, which explore the constructed professional relationships and the implicit conditions of international cooperation in the cultural field. Only the text of Youssef El Idrissi on decolonial mediation has been translated into English to o er an insight of the group’s considerations.

These proposals are complemented by the French and Arabic translations of an interview with South African professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, who invites us to wonder what it means epistemologically, and even pedagogically, to learn in a “non-colonial” way. It is reprinted and translated with permission of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and was originally published as Duncan Omanga, “Decolonization, Decoloniality, and the Future of African Studies: A Conversation with Dr. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni,” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences, January 14, 2020.

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NOS MONDES (OUR WOLDS), 2020 © Fatine Arafati, Kawthar Benlakhdar, Youssef El Idrissi, Abir Gasmi, Salma Kossemtini & Constance Léon