Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University

Herausgeber: Cupples, Julie; Grosfoguel, Ramon

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138061804
• ISBN-10: 1138061808
• Artikelnr.: 52377121

Autorenporträt

Julie Cupples is Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her current research is focused on indigenous and Afro-descendant media activism in Central America and Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of Latin American Development (2013) and co-author of Communications/Media/Geographies (2017) and Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes: Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Social Justice (2018). Ramón Grosfoguel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a senior researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, France. He has published many articles on the political economy of the world system and on Caribbean migrations to Western Europe and the United States. He is author of Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective (2003) and co-editor of Latin@s in the World System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century US Empire (2005) and Decolonizing the Westernized University (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Urbanisation 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: Colonial Difference, Epistemological Bias, and
Eurocentrism 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