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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: A critical conversation on decolonising publishing and academia.

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13 March 2025 - 13 March 2025

1:00PM - 3:00PM

CLC407 (Kingsley Barrett Room), Durham University

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Led by Dr Masi Noor, Associate Professor at Keele University, this session critically examines the challenges of decolonising academic publishing. How do we work towards meaningful change within a system built on colonial foundations? What are the limits—and possibilities—of transformation?

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In this interactive workshop, we will critically examine the challenges of decolonising a publishing system built on colonial foundations. Can true transformation happen within exclusionary structures? How do we resist co-optation while working inside these models?

Drawing on lived experience and insights from a British Academy-funded project on decolonising the publishing ecosystem, this session will explore:

  • The tensions between mentorship, support, and structural change
  • The limits and possibilities of transformation in academic publishing
  • The personal cost of this work and the weight of Audre Lorde's words

Rather than providing answers, this session is a space for reflection, challenge, and imagining alternate futures.

Speakers

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Dr Masi Noor

Senior Lecturer, Keele University

I was born and raised in Afghanistan before emigrating to Germany as a child, where I completed my secondary education (Abitur). As a young adult, I moved to Northern Ireland to work as a community and youth worker. I publish as often as I can, but just as important to me is supporting others in their publishing journeys. I have served in different editorial journals and recently completed my term as one of the Editors-in-Chief of the European Journal of Social Psychology.

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