👋Hi Everyone!

We are proud to release our interview 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 currently a Research Associate at the Department of Development Studies and the Centre of World Christianity, SOAS University of London, UK. Previously serving as Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies, she has been an active member of the Decolonising SOAS Working Group since 2016, initiating the Decolonising Research Initiative on behalf of the #SOAS Research Directorate. As a critical international development thinker and practitioner with a decade’s experience in reflexive, decolonial and community-centred methodologies for researching and addressing issues with gender dimensions in sub-Saharan Africa, her research lies at the intersection of gender, religious and development studies, with application of a decolonial perspective. She has written on the ethics of international development, western gender metaphysics and religious knowledge systems, and the discourse of fundamentalism in gender studies. Dr Istratii’s most recent research project was a decolonial ethnographic study of conjugal abuse in the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahәdo community of Aksum, which has evolved into the on-going HFGF-funded project “Religion, conscience and abusive behaviour: Understanding the role of faith and spirituality in the deterrence of intimate partner violence in rural Ethiopia.”

🎵 Born in Eastern Europe, she has worked to expose and subvert western European #epistemic dominance in #African development theory and practice, improve representations of eastern #worldviews and religious traditions in western epistemology and subvert elitism and higher education and knowledge production. She is especially committed to the promotion of language learning in #research and #publishing as a means to the decolonisation of knowledge production and international development.

☁️ Listen in as we discuss with Dr. Istratii about pursuing a Decolonial Academic Career Path in #postcovid, career advices for those interested in #academia, and for #minorities trying to pursue this career path!