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Anti-Racism and Reparations in Comparative and International Education

Ahead of the UKFIET 2025 conference, 糖心传媒 President Professor Arathi Sriprakash hosted a series of online workshops on anti-racism and reparation. We asked to illustrate some of the rich conversations that took place in these events. We hope you enjoy exploring some of the themes and issues we discussed and find these summaries a useful resource to take forward in your own work.

Workshop 1: Debating reparations in CIE

In this workshop, participants discussed the following two papers, exploring the politics and possibilities of reparation in CIE:

  • Walker, S., Tikly, L., Strong, K., Wallace, D., & Soudien, C. (2023). The case for educational reparations: addressing racial injustices in sustainable development goal 4. , 103.
  • Sylla, N.S., Fischer, A.M., Kaltenbrunner, A. and Sathi, S. (2024), Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice. . vol.55(4)  

Workshop 2: A case for embedding structural analyses of race and racism in comparative and international education

In this workshop, authors of recently-published paper on structural racism in CIE presented the key ideas of their work, focusing on theories of: Racialisation, Racial States, and Racial Capitalism. Participants reflected on how these theories connected to their own research.

You can read the paper here:

Singh, Y., Drago葯, S., Oddy, J., Sriprakash, A., & Walker, S. (2025). A case for embedding structural analyses of race and racism in comparative and international education. , 1鈥�19.

Workshop 3: New research on racial justice in CIE

In this workshop we heard about new research on racial justice and education. Presentations weaved together analyses of both the structural conditions and the lived experiences of racism in different contexts, with papers on: the educational implications of internal colonisation in Thailand; the lived experiences of school exclusion in England; the development of a global critical race theory to account for anti-Muslim racism across contexts;  the development of critical caste curriculum theory in India; and a study of whiteness and ableism through the experiences of South Asian teachers in England.

Keep your eyes out for an upcoming Compare Forum on this work!

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