Dismantling injustice
Notes from the 'decolonial decision-making' workshop
Written by Nicola Scott. Photo by Tay Aziz.
I felt privileged to co-facilitate a 'Decolonial decision-making' workshop at the Gathering Table Summit, with Diana Garduño Jiménez (Nourish Scotland), aiming to address:
What does decolonisation mean in the context of our organisations and communities?
How can we incorporate decolonial practices into decision-making processes?
To begin to answer these questions, we took a participatory and interactive approach using applied learnings from Indigenous Canadian activist scholar Andrea Menard’s key elements of decolonisation, to enable participants to:
Share ideas of what a decolonial organisation is and what decision making within it meant to them.
Draw upon how their ideas can be applied to settings they work in/with e.g. a community growing space, a commercial food growing/production space, an NGO advocating for a more sustainable food system.