The question of decolonisation raises a series of paradoxes in the context of urban geographical scholarship in settler-colonial universities. The city is an emblematic location of settler privilege and the institutions of the academy hardly innocent of sustaining those very same structures of privilege. So what, then, might it look and feel like to attempt to practice decoloniality about the city, from the site of university-based scholarship in settler-colonial contexts?

This panel discussion will address questions including: how spaces within university systems be created to practice community-based, justice-oriented, activist scholarship; and what might be the ethics, politics and practices that can transform urban geographical scholarship in settler-colonies?

The panel discussants are being finalized and will include both Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists and scholars