Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University
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- English
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Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University
About this book
The westernized university is a site where the production of knowledge is embedded in Eurocentric epistemologies that are posited as objective, disembodied and universal and in which non-Eurocentric knowledges, such as black and indigenous ones, are largely marginalized or dismissed. Consequently, it is an institution that produces racism, sexism and epistemic violence. While this is increasingly being challenged by student activists and some faculty, the westernized university continues to engage in diversity and internationalization initiatives that reproduce structural disadvantages and to work within neoliberal agendas that are incompatible with decolonization.
This book draws on decolonial theory to explore the ways in which Eurocentrism in the westernized university is both reproduced and unsettled. It outlines some of the challenges that accompany the decolonization of teaching, learning, research and policy, as well as providing examples of successful decolonial moments and processes. It draws on examples from universities in Europe, New Zealand and the Americas.
This book represents a highly timely contribution from both early career and established thinkers in the field. Its themes will be of interest to student activists and to academics and scholars who are seeking to decolonize their research and teaching. It constitutes a decolonizing intervention into the crisis in which the westernized university finds itself.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Coloniality resurgent, coloniality interrupted
- 2 The university as branch plant industry
- 3 The white university: A platform of subjectification/subjugation
- 4 Can the master's tools dismantle the master's lodge? Negotiating postcoloniality in the neoliberal university
- 5 Black studies in the westernized university: The interdisciplines and the elision of political economy
- 6 Black feminist contributions to decolonizing the curriculum
- 7 Denaturalizing settler-colonial logics in international development education in Canada
- 8 Planetary urbanization and postcolonial geographies:What directions for critical urban theory?
- 9 Decolonizing legal studies: A Latin Americanist perspective
- 10 The challenges of being Mapuche at university
- 11 Learning from Mayan feminists' interpretations of buen vivir
- 12 Other knowledges, other interculturalities: The colonial difference in intercultural dialogue
- 13 Poetical, ethical and political dimensions of Indigenous language practices in Colombia
- 14 Surpassing epistemic hierarchies: A dialogue between expanded art practices and human scale development
- 15 "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité": Debunking the myth of egalitarianism in French education
- 16 Dismantling Eurocentrism in the French history of chattel slavery and racism
- 17 Beyond the westernized university: Eurocentrism and international high school curricula
- 18 What is racism? Zone of being and zone of non-being in the work of Frantz Fanon and Boaventura de Sousa Santos
- Index