In her opening remarks, editor in chief Micheala Benson noted that the book remains ‘fresh and relevant’ and that Smith’s work critiquing the hegemony as its reproduced through theory, knowledge and research is as important as it ever was. The address came twenty years after the first publication of her ground-breaking book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. In 2019, the editorial board invited Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Professor in the Department of Maori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato. In so doing, the annual lecture series enacts The Sociological Review’s manifesto commitment to critically and creatively engage with global struggles and transformations. Previous annual lectures, from Imogen Tyler, Satnam Virdee, Éric Fassin and Rivke Jaffe, have aimed to sociologically intervene in major economic and political changes in the world. On 16 th October 2019, The Sociological Review were pleased to host our fifth annual lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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