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Decolonising the University

Decolonising the University

Gurminder K. Bhambra | Dalia Gebrial | Kerem Nişancıolu

(2018)

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Abstract

In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolonisation of the world's universities.

Today, as this movement grows, how will it radically transform the terms upon which universities exist? In this book, students, activists and scholars discuss the possibilities and the pitfalls of doing decolonial work in the home of the coloniser, in the heart of the establishment. Subverting curricula, enforcing diversity, and destroying old boundaries, this is a radical call for a new era of education.

Offering resources for students and academics to challenge and resist coloniality inside and outside the classroom, Decolonising the University provides the tools for radical pedagogical, disciplinary and institutional change.
'A fine collection of knowledgeable yet readable essays which address a host of vital issues for our times: Eurocentrism, whiteness, power, free speech, inclusion and exclusion, and public higher education... A must-read for anyone interested in enhancing a historical understanding of our present through a consideration of what it means to decolonise'
Priyamvada Gopal, Reader in Anglophone and Related Literatures, University of Cambridge
'As Robbie Shilliam notes astutely in this timely volume, criticism of decolonising the university often overshadows the project itself. These collected reflections provide a much-needed analysis of the global movement to unsettle the Eurocentric white academy'
Alana Lentin, Western Sydney University

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover Cover
Contents v
1. Introduction: Decolonising the University? - Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nişancıoğlu 1
Part I: Contexts: Historical and Disciplinary 17
2. Rhodes Must Fall: Oxford and Movements for Change - Dalia Gebrial 19
3. Race and the Neoliberal University: Lessons from the Public University - John Holmwood 37
4. Black/Academia - Robbie Shilliam 53
5. Decolonising Philosophy - Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rafael Vizcaíno, Jasmine Wallace and Jeong Eun Annabel We 64
Part II: Institutional Initiatives 91
6. Asylum University: Re-situating Knowledge Exchange along Cross-border Positionalities - Kolar Aparna and Olivier Kramsch 93
7. Diversity or Decolonisation? Researching Diversity at the University of Amsterdam - Rosalba Icaza and Rolando Vázquez 108
8. The Challenge for Black Studies in the Neoliberal University - Kehinde Andrews 129
9. Open Initiatives for Decolonising the Curriculum - Pat Lockley 145
Part III: Decolonial Reflections 171
10. Meschachakanis, a Coyote Narrative: Decolonising Higher Education - Shauneen Pete 173
11. Decolonising Education: A Pedagogic Intervention - Carol Azumah Dennis 190
12. Internationalisation and Interdisciplinarity: Sharing across Boundaries? - Angela Last 208
13. Understanding Eurocentrism as a Structural Problem of Undone Science - William Jamal Richardson 231
Notes on Contributors 249
Index 252