Arriving, Teaching, Resisting: A Migrant Scholar on Racism and Higher Education in Switzerland

In this first episode of Missing Chapters, we speak with Anukriti Dixit, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Bern (IZFG), about what it means to produce feminist, decolonial, and anti-racist knowledge within Swiss academia.

Starting from her experience of moving from India to Switzerland, this conversation explores how knowledge, institutions, and everyday interactions are shaped by power, culture, and structural inequalities.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Decolonial knowledge production in Western academia
• Experiences of arriving in Switzerland as a researcher from the Global South
• Everyday exclusions and academic culture
• Positionality and perspective in knowledge production
• The tension between lived experience and institutional frameworks

Book recommendations from the episode:

• A Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays – Rita Segato
  (Originally written in Spanish, recently translated – described as a “kind of bible of decoloniality”)
• Karukku – Bama
  (An autobiographical narrative addressing caste, inequality, and lived experience)