This post looks at titles bought from the new decolonisation fund set up in 21/22 for teaching collections and at a few sample decolonisation titles bought by our senior staff using our standard research-related collection development funds.

At the start of 2022, the Decolonisation Working Group launched a trial decolonisation fund for teaching collections.  The fund was put together with ebooks@cambridge and CAL research monies, and was designed to help faculty and departmental teaching collections expand with decolonisation-related titles that lay outside reading lists (print or e) or outside the scope of the librarian to buy without access to CAL’s wider vendor network (print).  College librarians were invited to make suggestions too, for ebooks.  In total, we bought 14 titles, listed below.  The hard copy books all went to the library that had requested them.

Print books

• Decolonizing universalism : a transnational feminist ethic / Serene J. Khader. (copy for the Marshall Library)
• Four specific parts of the variously catalogued The image of the Black in western art / David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editors ; Karen C.C. Dalton, associate editor.  (copies for the Architecture and History of Art Library)
• A grammar of Baḍugu : a primitive Draviḍian language / Anandhan R. (copy for South Asian Studies Library collection)
• Beyond the master’s tools? : decolonizing knowledge orders, research methods and teaching / edited by Daniel Bendix, Franziska Müller and Aram Ziai. (copy for the Marshall Library)

Ebooks

• Indigenous archaeologies : a reader on decolonization / editors, Margaret M. Bruchac, Siobhan M. Hart, and H. Martin Wobst.
• Against decolonisation : taking African agency seriously / Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.
• Working with and for ancestors : collaboration in the care and study of ancestral remains / edited by Chelsea H. Meloche, Laure Spake, and Katherine L. Nichols.
• Interrogating human origins : decolonisation and the deep human past / edited by Martin Porr and Jacqueline M. Matthews.
• Research as resistance : revisiting critical, Indigenous, and anti-oppressive approaches / edited by Susan Strega and Leslie Brown.
• Tracing British West Indian slavery laws : a comparative analysis of legal transplants / Justine K Collins.
• The Routledge handbook of the archaeology of Indigenous-colonial interaction in the Americas / edited by Lee M. Panich and Sara L. Gonzalez.
• Science, museums and collecting the Indigenous dead in colonial Australia / Paul Turnbull.
• The Routledge handbook of global historical archaeology / edited by Charles E. Orser, Jr., Andrés Zarankin, Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Susan Lawrence, and James Symonds.
• The Routledge companion to Indigenous repatriation : return, reconcile, renew / edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler.

The Decolonisation Working Group will consider at their next meeting in September a plan for the fund for 22/23.

Sample CAL research purchases about decolonisation

The titles listed here were purchased in the 21/22 academic year and were selected by relevant CAL staff or bought on the strength of recommendations.

Danish

• Globale og postkoloniale perspektiver på dansk kolonihistorie / redigeret af Søren Rud og Søren Ivarsson. (2021; print: C218.c.8004)

Dutch

• Dochter van de dekolonisatie / Nadia Nsayi. (2020; print: C218.c.904)
• Slavernij en beschaving : geschiedenis van een paradox / Karwan Fatah-Black. (2021; print: C218.c.7745)

English

• Decolonisation as democratisation : global insights into the South African experience / edited by Siseko H. Kumalo. (2021; print: C218.c.2452)
• Decolonization and anti-colonial praxis : shared lineages / edited by Anila Zainub ; foreword by George J. Sefa Dei. (2019; ebook)
• Adjusting the lens : Indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage / edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen. (2021; print: C218.c.943)
• Decolonising conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development in the anthropocene / Úrsula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch, editors. (2021; ebook)
• The collector and the collected : decolonizing area studies librarianship / editors, Megan Browndorf, Erin Pappas, Anna Arays. (2021; print: C218.c.5958)

German

• Geschichtskultur durch Restitution? : ein Kunst-Historikerstreit / Thomas Sandkühler, Angelika Epple, Jürgen Zimmerer (Hg.). (2021; print: C218.c.5016)
• Afrikas Kampf um seine Kunst : Geschichte einer postkolonialen Niederlage / Bénédicte Savoy. (2021; ebook)
• Hamburg : Tor zur kolonialen Welt : Erinnerungsorte der (post-)kolonialen Globalisierung / herausgegeben von Jürgen Zimmerer und Kim Sebastian Todzi. (2021; print: C218.c.791)
• Naturzustand und Barbarei : Begründung und Kritik staatlicher Ordnung im Zeichen des Kolonialismus / Oliver Eberl. (2021; ebook)

French

• Décolonisation, fédéralisme et poésie chez Léopold Sédar Senghor / Sébastien Heiniger. (2022; print: 736:47.c.95.638)
• Décoloniser les Antilles? : une histoire de l’État postcolonial (1946-1982) / Sylvain Mary. (2021; print: C218.c.3273)
• L’empire qui ne veut pas mourir : une histoire de la Françafrique / sous la direction de Thomas Borrel, Amzat Boukari-Yabara, Benoît Collombat, Thomas Deltombe. (2021; print: C218.c.1449)
• Plaidoyer pour le patrimoine colonial : le legs colonial, entre histoire et mémoire / Isidore Pascal Ndjock Nyobe. (2021; print: C217.c.7836)

Italian

• Vedere l’impero : l’Istituto Luce e il colonialismo fascista / Gianmarco Mancosu. (2022; print: C207.d.1055)
• Africa, il continente del terzo millennio : chiave della modernità dal colonialismo al risveglio / Giovanni Armillotta. (2021; print: C218.c.5186)
• Fascismo, antifascismo e colonialismo / a cura di Anna Rita Gabellone, Renato Tomei. (2021; print: C206.d.7427)

Portuguese

• Angola : descolonização, luta pelo poder e a construção de uma nova sociedade / Lucas Benghy Ngonda. (2020; print: C218.c.8405)
• Des-cobrir a Europa : filhos de impérios e pós-memórias europeias / Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues. (2022; print: C218.c.8335)
• Perspectivas pós-coloniais e decoloniais em relações internacionais / Aureo Toledo (organizador). (2021; print: C218.c.8337)
• Conhecer para dominar : o desenvolvimento do conhecimento antropológico na política colonial portuguesa em Moçambique, 1926-1959 / Rui Mateus Pereira. (2021; print: C218.c.1468)

Spanish

• Colonialismo e imperialismo : entre el derribo de monumentos y la nostalgia por la grandeza perdida / Gustau Nerín. (2022; print: C207.d.661)
• Guinea : el delirio colonial de España / Iñaki Tofiño. (2021; print: C218.c.6589)
• Dios y la máqvina : singularidad y serialidad en la pintura colonial andina / edición, Lucía Querejazu Escobari. (2020; print: S950.b.202.617)
• Annual : ecos de la última aventura colonial española / Bruno Camus Bergareche, Anna Scicolone (eds.). (2021; print: C218.c.548)

Ukrainian

• Ukraïnsʹka postkolonialʹnistʹ u tekstakh i kontekstakh / Oksana Kovat︠s︡ʹka. (2022; print: C207.d.1557)

Mel Bach, on behalf of the department