Consortium for Southern Epistemologies (CSE)

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The Consortium for Southern Epistemologies (CSE) is a research network at Queen Mary University of London committed to fostering, sustaining and amplifying Black, Indigenous, anti-colonial, anti-caste, feminist scholarship. It centres coalitional thinking across performance, visual arts and literature to reconfigure radical possibilities emerging from aesthetic and political practices of the global south. Through workshops, seminars and creative collaborations with researchers, organisers, artists and members of the public, CSE thinks through and with the methods and epistemologies grounded in global south locations to cultivate spaces for critical engagement.

CSE describes its work as interrogating and seeking to decentre dominant forms and processes of knowledge production that often reproduce colonial hierarchies within research and praxis, insisting instead on epistemic justice and plurality. It places particular emphasis on reading groups, collective thinking, and collaborations with researchers, artists, activists and policymakers thinking epistemically with the global south, and it seeks to build an international community of scholars and practitioners who engage with experimental, creative ways of doing and writing. Its members are researchers at Queen Mary, and its recent projects include MUTUA, presented at the Pasturas Festival of Transhumance in Mendoza, Argentina, in May 2025.

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Queen Mary, University of London
London