These questions can help structure reflection and discussion of your reading list:
- What are the dominant voices and narratives in your areas of study?
- What voices and narratives are excluded, and how can they be identified?
- Are the texts Western-centric, or Eurocentric?
- Are bodies of knowledge distorted? Can discourse affect the way that we look at groups of people?
- Who is the author of the work? Are the majority of the authors the same gender and ethnicity?
- What is the relevance of the author’s identity in this context?
- Who is talking about whose experience and/ or culture?
- What is the place of publication and geographic coverage of the text?
- What is the language of the text? Is it a translation or in its original language?
- What kinds of sources do we perceive to be of most academic value and why?
