Practices of Collaboration

Project 00 functions as a connecting hub that fosters and studies the culture of collaboration within the Research Unit. It provides a space for progressive reflection of the RU’s own collaborative practices and creatively explores modes of collective thinking, writing and acting that are informed by the work of the RU. As part of this project the Principal Investigator pursues a postdoctoral research project which will study the transformative potential of postcolonial collaborations via a case study dedicated to the theoretical, literary and organisational work of the Pan-African writer Ayi Kwei Armah. As a whole, the project is designed to respond to the RU’s core ambition of imagining alternative ways of collaborating across the divisions upheld by global power structures and different epistemologies, as well as across the divisions of academia, activism and artistic practices. By asking what it would mean to actively translate postcolonial, feminist, queer, Indigenous and Black theories of collaboration into the specific setting of the university, this project actively mediates between theory and practice with the aim of developing relational and transformative practices of knowledge production.