Potsdam Postcolonial Studies Collective

The Potsdam Postcolonial Studies Collective is an interdisciplinary network of scholars at the University of Potsdam’s Faculty of Arts. It was established in 2025 as a "Potenzialbereich".

On this website, you can meet the team, and learn more about the members' research and projects.

The collective understands the field of postcolonial studies as a critical perspective that challenges and offers alternatives to colonial and neo-colonial ways of ordering the world. This includes research on coloniality in all its forms, but also the study, development, or implementation of new critical methodologies in research and teaching, as well as a sustained effort to connect academic research to social actors and developments outside the university.