Urban
Decolonization

Resources

Our toolbox creates a space dedicated to gathering and highlighting existing resources to help you get informed and delve into what decolonisation means and how to decolonise our cities. 

Don’t know where to start?

Pick up a book or put your headphones on and listen to a podcast! Here are some recommendations for you.

Books 

  • “The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon 
  • “Black Skin, White Masks” by Frantz Fanon 
  • “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney.
  • “Colonialism/Postcolonialism” by Ania Loomba 
  • “King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa” by Adam Hochschild 
  • “Open Veins of Latin America” by Eduardo Galeano 
  • “The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination” by Stuart Reid
  • “Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India” by Harald Fischer-Tiné
  • “The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism” by David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen 
  • “Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492–1700” by Lyle N. McAlister
  • “Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830” by J. H. Elliott 
  • “Conquest and Resistance in the Ethiopian Empire, 1880–1974: The Case of the Arsi Oromo” by Abbas Gnamo
  • “Black is the Journey, Africana the name” by Maboula Soumahoro

Podcasts 

Meet the experts

Here are associations, foundations and organisations in general that work on decolonisation in our cities. 

If you are an association working on these themes and you would like to be included in this space, send us an email at oliviero.aseglio@scom.eu.

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