Epistemic Revivals is a container for a portfolio of interconnected and collaborative projects that engage with the LAEMOS Conference (2006-2018), its guiding principles of organising, and its radical promise of knowledge creation outside the Western-Eurocentric norms of theory production. We seek to revive its memory and knowledge-making for the purposes of surviving, creating, and speaking-up on academia otherwise. 

Epistemic Revivals engages in a praxis of remembering, in order to connect with community members, build alliances, and create spaces that nourish counter-histories, anti-racist, anti-capitalist practices that are so often buried, erased, or silenced in academic settings. The project includes multi-modal activism, such as artistic interventions, spatial disruption, and community building and organising.

Epistemic Revivals believes in the promise of communal spaces to collectively disrupt dominant narratives and ideas associated with white European-American critical management studies. We especially reject the claims to intellectual superiority emerging from its basis in Enlightenment thinking, and associated assertions about its geographic origins in Europe. Instead, we are guided by curiosity, the wisdom of embodiment and affect, and the recovery and (re)generation of pluriversal knowledges.

Creative Team

Drs Sadhvi Dar (QMUL) and Angela Martinez Dy (Loughborough University London) are established research academics and scholar-activists who share a range of artistic practices. They have worked together previously through their collaborative intervention called Building the Anti-Racist Classroom collective (2017-2022) and are founding members of the Decolonizing Alliance (est. 2017).

Thomas ‘Juga-Naut’ Higgins is a multi-talented artist, emcee, producer and chef with an international following. He creates every aspect of his music himself, from concept to final product. Born and raised in Nottingham, his upbringing, his parents’ artistic expression, and mixed heritage background has informed his work throughout his career.

THE CREATIVE TEAM THANKS ICMS CONFERENCE ORGANISERS, NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY and LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY LONDON FOR THEIR SPONSORSHIP AND SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECT.