Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis

George J. Sefa Dei, Meredith Lordan

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781433133879
• eBook ISBN: 9781453918579
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

Are we living in a post-colonial world? A colonial one? An anti-colonial one? Lifting the veil from language and politics, Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis uses case studies from around the world to explore and untangle these concepts as they relate to education. The anti-colonial prism is very much connected to the postcolonial lens but these frameworks are not the same. Building upon earlier works, this book takes up the subject of anti-colonial praxis and its specific implications—the larger questions of schooling and education in global and, particularly, Diasporic contexts. The goal is to re-theorize the anti-colonial for the decolonial projects of transforming schooling and education in a broadly defined way. Beyond explaining these ideas, this book demonstrates ways communities are engaging in praxis as a form of anti-colonial change in a wide range of locations. Incorporating case studies from various locations and Diasporic communities—including Somalia, Canada, Nigeria, Jamaica, and St. Vincent—and provocative theoretical analyses, the book brings varied experiences of anti-colonial praxis to the reader in timely, culturally diverse, and engaging ways. This book could be used in upper undergraduate and graduate level courses in anthropology, Diaspora studies, education, environmental studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, law, multiculturalism studies, politics, social work, and sociology.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Envisioning New Meanings, Memories and Actions for Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis (George J. Sefa Dei and Meredith Lordan)
• Chapter One: Who Needs Hybridity? An Anti-Colonial, Feminist Theorization of Mixed Race (Emily A. Moorhouse)
• Chapter Two: Erasing Colonial Lines between Humxn and Nature: Mobilizing Settlers (Vessica D. Rostan)
• Chapter Three: Against All Authority: Critical Convergences in Anarchist and Anti-Colonial Theory (Christopher L. Cully)
• Chapter Four: Anti-Colonial and Decolonizing Meaning Making of Colonialism Through the 1991 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (Umar Umangay)
• Chapter Five: A Race to Whiteness: Revealing the Colonial Structure of English Language Education—What Kind of Education for All? (Cristina Jaimungal)
• Chapter Six: Unsettling the “Failed State”: An Anti-Racist Approach to the State and State Formation—A Study of Somalia (Muna-Udbi Abdulkadir Ali)
• Chapter Seven: Student Engagement Experiences in Nigerian Private Secondary Schools: An Anti-Colonial and Student-Centered Analysis (Chizoba Imoka)
• Chapter Eight: Indigeneity and Resistance in Hip Hop and Lived Experiences of Youth of African Descent in Canada (Annette Bazira-Okafor)
• Chapter Nine: Black African-Aboriginal Coalitions for Decolonization Struggles: The Missing Links (Suleyman M. Demi)
• Chapter Ten: Objects of Settlement: Excavating Colonial Narratives (Mischa Berlin)
• Chapter Eleven: Understanding Ideological and Structural Forms of Colonial Dominance: Jamaican Migrant Farmworkers Within Global Capitalism (Stacey Papernick)
• Chapter Twelve: Awanduni (Resistance): A Process of Indigeneity and Decolonization—(Re)identification and Cultural Revival of the Garifunain St. Vincent and the Diaspora (Rebekah Tannis-Johnson)
• Contributors