“…Indeed, “decolonisation” and “decolonising” have emerged in the last three or four years as a standard organising theme for mainstream academic conferences in the social sciences, albeit not without considerable critique of the appropriative tendencies of the rhetorical moves – including “moves to innocence” (Tuck and Yang, 2012) – affected through such gatherings (Esson et al , 2017; Noxolo, 2017; Bhambra et al , 2018, p. 4). In facing imperial collusions and seeking decolonised alternatives, Branwen Gruffydd Jones (2006) argues against wilful ignorance and other “moves to innocence” (Tuck and Yang, 2012) towards the kind of shame Edward Said identified for critical scholars working within hegemonic institutions: “an acute and embarrassed awareness of the all-pervasive, unavoidable imperial setting” (Said, 1995, p. 34). And perhaps some of these syllabi are already, as I write, being soundly decolonised and their “disturbing complacencies” (Varadharajan, 2019, p. 183) being rethought.…”