{"id":36976,"date":"2026-02-05T16:53:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=36976"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:53:58","slug":"another-walt-is-possible-pluriversal-sovereignty-and-decolonial-development-feb-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2026\/02\/05\/another-walt-is-possible-pluriversal-sovereignty-and-decolonial-development-feb-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Another \u201cWalt\u201d Is Possible: Pluriversal Sovereignty and Decolonial Development &#8212; Feb 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail alignleft wp-image-36977\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2026\/02\/Ajay-Discussion-Feb-25-2026-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2026\/02\/Ajay-Discussion-Feb-25-2026-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2026\/02\/Ajay-Discussion-Feb-25-2026-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2026\/02\/Ajay-Discussion-Feb-25-2026-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2026\/02\/Ajay-Discussion-Feb-25-2026-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2026\/02\/Ajay-Discussion-Feb-25-2026-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2026\/02\/Ajay-Discussion-Feb-25-2026-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2026\/02\/Ajay-Discussion-Feb-25-2026.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The School of Social Justice and Global Stewardship\/ GDS program invites students, faculty, and community members to a public talk by Dr. Ajay Parasram, Associate Professor of International Development Studies and History at Dalhousie University.<\/p>\n<p>In his lecture, \u201cAnother \u2018Walt\u2019 is Possible: Pluriversal Sovereignty, Imperial Political Economy, and Decolonial Development,\u201d Dr. Parasram draws on his award-winning research to challenge conventional ideas of development and to highlight decolonial, plural approaches to sovereignty and global political economy. His work offers important perspectives for anyone interested in global justice, history, and critical development studies.<\/p>\n<p>Event details:<br \/>\nWed, Feb 25 | 2:30\u20134:30 pm<br \/>\nAbby Room B101<br \/>\nOpen to all.<br \/>\nFor more information, please email: Geetanjali.Gill@ufv.ca<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Tuka Bakri at <a href=\"mailto:tuka.bakri@ufv.ca\">tuka.bakri@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #fff;\">02\/26\/2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Social Justice and Global Stewardship\/ GDS program invites students, faculty, and community members to a public talk by Dr. Ajay Parasram, Associate Professor of International Development Studies and History at Dalhousie University. In his lecture, \u201cAnother \u2018Walt\u2019 is Possible: Pluriversal Sovereignty, Imperial Political Economy, and Decolonial Development,\u201d Dr. Parasram draws on his &#8230; <a title=\"Another \u201cWalt\u201d Is Possible: Pluriversal Sovereignty and Decolonial Development &#8212; Feb 25\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2026\/02\/05\/another-walt-is-possible-pluriversal-sovereignty-and-decolonial-development-feb-25\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":36977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-myufv","category-calendar","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37017,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36976\/revisions\/37017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}