ALTERITY
Decolonizing the ivory tower one publication at a time
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Alterity is a research, journalism, and awareness-raising community founded by Pour Nous, a student initiative advocating for an anti-racist and inclusive Sciences Po that lives up to its ambition of training innovative and responsible decision-makers motivated to dismantle systems of oppression throughout their careers. The Pour Nous Collective emerged out of a profound discontent with, and student-led resistance against, systemic racism and the deep entrenchment of colonial and other oppressive legacies in the curriculum and pedagogy at Sciences Po. Hence, our central aim has always been to celebrate diversity of thought by carving out places for students at the margins of academic orthodoxy and established epistemological doctrines to realize their potential and foster stimulating and necessarily challenging dialogue. We aspire to subvert paradigmatic constraints to facilitate a space within and beyond Sciences Po in which we can author research and other forms of self-expression that is intentionally decolonial, antiracist, self-reflective, anticapitalist, environmentalist, feminist, and always intersectional. In this spirit, we are launching the Pour Nous Research Pole, a research network aimed at publishing, supporting, and connecting young scholars, students, activists, and other professionals interested in contributing to a heterodox and welcoming learning community.
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VALUES
Community
Sustainability
Accessibility
Diversity
Positionality
Reflexivity
Read more about our values below.
"Artistic othering has to do with innovation, invention, and change, upon which cultural health and diversity depend and thrive. Social othering has to do with power, exclusion, and privilege, the centralizing of a noun against which otherness is measured, meted out, marginalized. My focus is the practice of the former by people subjected to the latter."