Seminar Background
Our streets, buildings, and museums are imbued with colonial heritage. For centuries, European colonialism exploited people, land, and resources in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, and its effects remain visible today.
Presently, European governments and companies still contribute to global injustices.
Many cities in Europe and around the world display romanticized views of colonialism, featuring streets and squares named after colonizers, museums showcasing stolen artifacts, and sites with violent histories that are seldom discussed.
Decolonial city tours serve as an educational method to raise awareness among young people and inspire them to advocate for global justice. Many youths lack basic knowledge of colonial history and the current neocolonial power structures.
By highlighting buildings, street names, monuments, artifacts, and stories that reveal a city’s colonial heritage and neocolonial present, these tours offer youths a different perspective on familiar places and motivate them to hold their governments and companies accountable through civic action.
Training Objectives
While several cities already offer decolonial city tours, we aim to expand this initiative and encourage more youth organizations to create their own tours. Our goals include:
Sharing best practices on conducting decolonial city tours based on our experiences.
Providing an example of a decolonial city tour by guiding participants around Innsbruck from a decolonial perspective.
Promoting decolonial city tours in more cities across Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia, and supporting each other in their creation.
Discussing how decolonial city tours can be used as an educational method for young people at local and international youth projects (e.g., volunteering camps, youth exchanges, volunteer preparation).
Exploring how decolonial city tours can empower BIPOC youth and youth in the Global South.
Ensuring decolonial city tours incorporate intersectional perspectives (e.g., class, gender, sexual orientation, dis/abilities) in both content and methodology.
Establishing a network of organizations and collectives offering decolonial city tours for young people and maintaining connections afterward.
Outcomes
Create a network of like-minded organizations working on postcolonial city tours.
Develop English guidelines for youth workers on conducting decolonial city tours.
Potentially produce short educational videos about colonial history for youth.
Eligible Countries
Eligible countries include all EU member states + Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Georgia, Iceland, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Libya, North Macedonia, Morocco, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Palestine, Serbia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
Logistics, Financial Conditions, and Sustainability
Simple Life: The training will take place in a seminar house with simple living conditions. Participants will share rooms and participate in cleaning and cooking tasks.
Expenses: There is no participation fee from our side. Essential costs (including food, travel expenses up to a maximum amount, visa costs, accommodation, and content) are covered by an Erasmus+ grant from the European Commission. Your sending organization might request a small participation fee.
Sustainable Food: We will provide vegan food, reflecting SCI’s commitment to sustainability and climate justice. To contribute to a more peaceful planet, we must move away from industrialized animal agriculture and its harmful environmental impact.
Sustainable Travel: We encourage participants to use sustainable means of transport, such as trains or buses, instead of flying, if possible. Further guidance on reaching the venue will be provided once you are accepted to the seminar.
Activty dates: 7-13 April 2025
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