ABSTRACT
In recent years, social movements and researchers in Norway have challenged the intertwined gendered, classist, ableist, nationalist, and racialized colonial legacies constitutive of academia, calling for decolonization. These calls originate from different perspectives, such as Indigenous, Black, and decolonial, shedding light on the systematic reproduction of coloniality and epistemic ignorance that uphold the exclusion of other than dominant Western epistemologies and intellectual traditions. This chapter offers a theoretical-conceptual discussion of coloniality in Norwegian academia, which reproduces monocultures of knowledge that render the academy unwelcoming for marginalized subjects and voices, as well as unfit for grappling with social and environmental injustices of necropolitical capitalism. As a group of five researchers coming to this field from different positionalities, the analytical contribution is a collective effort rooted in values like care, empathy, dialogue, and reciprocity to weave our knowledges together. Our main argument is the importance of seeing different perspectives that roam gender, class, ethnicity, and ability as interconnected and intersectional, to crack open the monocultures and gesture toward a “world in which many worlds fit.”
