About Dr Ornette Clennon
Dr. Ornette D. Clennon is the Head of Institute at MACTRI (Manchester Community Training & Research Institute). He is also a collaborating researcher and Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Amazon (UFAM), where he contributes to the theme of decolonial community and liberation psychology.
Ornette has also been a Visiting Research Fellow in critical race studies and lecturer in community arts practices and popular musicology at Manchester Metropolitan University (ManMet), where he led its Critical Race and Ethnicity Research Cluster.
As a ManMet representative, Ornette was a Public Engagement Ambassador for the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE). Ornette's engaged scholarship that bridges the gap between the academy and the grassroots has been recognized with the 2011 NCCPE New Partnership Award.
Ornette is a community activist at local, national and international levels, as he works with the MEaP Academy Community Education Centre where he is their Head of Online Learning, The Ubele Initiative, Locality, The Alci Matos Community (Manaus, Brazil), United Nations International Coalition of People of African Descent (ICPAD) in association with OHCHR, MACC (Manchester Community Central), CAHN (Caribbean and African Health Network), GMHSCP (GM Health and Social Care Partnership), Young Manchester, Young People’s Foundation (YPF) and the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRCSE), where he has been their Chair of Trustees.
Ornette is widely published, among his latest books are Alternative Education and Community Engagement: Making Education a Priority (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Urban Dialectics, The Market and Youth Engagement: The Black Face of Eurocentrism? (Nova Science Publishers, 2015), International Perspectives of Multiculturalism: The Ethical Challenges (Nova Science Publishers, 2016), The Polemics of CLR James and Contemporary Black Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Black Scholarly Activism between the Academy and Grassroots: A Bridge for Identities and Social Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Ornette is also the Series Editor for book series Palgrave Studies in Decolonisation and Grassroots Black Organic Intellectualism and co-author with Professor Claudia Sampaio of Decoloniality in the Grassroots: The Re-emergence of the Black Organic Intellectual (2023), the first volume in the series.
Recent Comments
It would be interesting to think about what a decolonised AI would actually look like in the "Global South"! Very challenging as AI is not just a product of Western capitalism (birthed by colonialism and its extractionism) but the actual logical evolution of it.
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It would be interesting to think about what a decolonised AI would actually look like in the "Global South"! Very challenging as AI is not just a product of Western capitalism (birthed by colonialism and its extractionism) but the actual logical evolution of it.
Just out of interest as a lay person, are their any traditional knowledges that survived colonialism that AI could be trained up in and allowed to bring into 21st century relevance. Perhaps in agriculture and land conservation? Traditional knowledges and techniques brought into the 21st century???
It would be interesting to think about what a decolonised AI would actually look like in the "Global South"! Very challenging as AI is not just a product of Western capitalism (birthed by colonialism and its extractionism) but the actual logical evolution of it.
Fantastic! I have a scholar at the Institute, based in Namibia who is looking into this especially in the area of local agriculture. I am very keen to follow your work in this area. Thank you so very much!
It would be interesting to think about what a decolonised AI would actually look like in the "Global South"! Very challenging as AI is not just a product of Western capitalism (birthed by colonialism and its extractionism) but the actual logical evolution of it.