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Decolonising Medical Knowledge - the case of breast cancer and ethnicity in the UK. (2022)
Journal Article
Lau, L., Workman, S., & Thompson, M. (2022). Decolonising Medical Knowledge - the case of breast cancer and ethnicity in the UK. Journal of Cancer Policy, 36, Article 100365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpo.2022.100365

National and global efforts have led to significant improvements in breast health and diagnosis, globally (Lukong, 2017). These achievements, however, are not even. Focusing on the case of breast cancer in the UK, we argue that enduring forms of medi... Read More about Decolonising Medical Knowledge - the case of breast cancer and ethnicity in the UK..

Hospitality and Amnesty: Aravind Adiga’s Narrative of Legal Liminality (2022)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2022). Hospitality and Amnesty: Aravind Adiga’s Narrative of Legal Liminality. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 1 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2099940

Amnesty continues several of the social justice themes of precarity and subalternity (at times, a violent subaltern agency) of Aravind Adiga’s fiction, and its literary narrative centres again on criminal acts and the moral dilemma the protagonist fa... Read More about Hospitality and Amnesty: Aravind Adiga’s Narrative of Legal Liminality.

Geology uprooted! Decolonising the curriculum for geologists (2022)
Journal Article
Rogers, S., Lau, L., Dowey, N., Sheikh, H., & Williams, R. (2022). Geology uprooted! Decolonising the curriculum for geologists. Geoscience Communication, 5(3), 189 - 204. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-189-2022

Geology is colonial. It has a colonial past and a colonial present. Most of the knowledge that we accept as the modern discipline of geology was founded during the height of the post-1700 European empire's colonial expansion. Knowledge is not neutral... Read More about Geology uprooted! Decolonising the curriculum for geologists.

Wither the plurality of decolonising the curriculum? Safe spaces and identitarian politics in the arts and humanities classroom (2022)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2022). Wither the plurality of decolonising the curriculum? Safe spaces and identitarian politics in the arts and humanities classroom. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 21(3), 223-239. https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222221100711

Contributing to the debate on decolonising the curriculum, this reflective article questions: What does a safe space in a decolonised classroom mean? For whom is it safe? And at what cost? Must we redraw the parameters of 'safe'? Prompted by a real-l... Read More about Wither the plurality of decolonising the curriculum? Safe spaces and identitarian politics in the arts and humanities classroom.

Gendered Rage (2022)
Journal Article
Lau, L., & Mendes, A. (2022). Gendered Rage. https://doi.org/10.5744/jgps.2021.0005

This article brings the concept of anger, particularly gendered anger, to bear on a postcolonial and intersectional reading of the apparent ragelessness of working-class Indian women who act as surrogates in the international commercialgestational su... Read More about Gendered Rage.