{"id":1536,"date":"2020-07-01T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T02:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/blog\/ocrc\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2020-07-01T07:31:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T02:31:42","slug":"pursuing-a-decolonial-academic-career-path-in-times-of-crisis-interview-with-dr-romina-istratii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/pursuing-a-decolonial-academic-career-path-in-times-of-crisis-interview-with-dr-romina-istratii\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursuing a Decolonial Academic Career Path in Times of Crisis – Interview with Dr Romina Istratii"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The RE: Project<\/a> – 1\/\/7\/2020 – Interview with Dr Romina Istratii (Associate Research Editor @COS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here\u00a0 listen to the Interview\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We are proud to release our\u00a0interview with Dr Romina Istratii<\/a>,<\/strong> pursuing a Decolonial Academic Career Path in Times of Crises.<\/p>\n

Dr Romina Istratii is the co-founder of the open-access #publishing platform Decolonial Subversions, and currently a Research Associate at SOAS Development Studies Department and the Centre of World Christianity, SOAS University of London.<\/p>\n

As a critical international development thinker and practitioner with experience in #decolonial methodologies for issues with gender dimensions in sub-Saharan Africa, her research works to expose and subvert western European epistemic dominance in African development theory and practice, improve representations of non-western worldviews & religious traditions. She is committed to promoting language learning in research and publishing as a means to the decolonisation of knowledge production and\u00a0 InterDev.<\/p>\n

Click here\u00a0 listen to the Interview\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Romina Istratii\u00a0<\/strong>is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, teaching currently on Religions and Development. Her research lies at the intersection of gender, religious and development and applies a decolonial perspective to gender and development practice informed by a decade\u2019s experience in community-based research in sub-Saharan Africa. She has previously written on the ethics of international development, western gender metaphysics and religious knowledge systems, and the discourse of fundamentalism in gender studies. Dr Istratii\u2019s most\u00a0recent research project was a decolonial ethnographic study of conjugal abuse in the Ethiopian Orthodox\u00a0T\u00e4wah\u04d9do\u00a0<\/em>community of Aksum, which has evolved into\u00a0the on-going HFGF-funded project \u201cReligion, conscience and abusive behaviour: Understanding the role of faith and spirituality in the deterrence of intimate partner violence in rural Ethiopia.\u201d Dr Istratii is co-founder of the\u00a0open-access publishing platform\u00a0Decolonial Subversions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The RE: Project – 1\/\/7\/2020 – Interview with Dr Romina Istratii (Associate Research Editor @COS) Click here\u00a0 listen to the Interview\u00a0 We are proud to release our\u00a0interview with Dr Romina Istratii, pursuing a Decolonial Academic Career Path in Times of Crises. Dr Romina Istratii is the co-founder of the open-access #publishing platform Decolonial Subversions, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}