Collaborations Against Settler Colonialism: Excavating the Educational Sites and Possibilities of Decolonization

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel aims to further struggles against ongoing settler-colonialism in North America and Palestine. We pay particular attention to the role that teaching, learning, pedagogy, and educational institutions play—or can play—in upholding or resisting settler-colonialism. Each paper focuses on a different aspect of education. While the papers have different foci, draw from different theoretical frameworks, and conceive of decolonization and the potential of decolonial struggles in different ways, each panelist agrees that the struggle against settler-colonialism must be engaged collaboratively. As such, each paper is written and presented collaboratively. Additionally, as we believe that both Indigenous and settler-colonists have to be involved in the decolonial process, this panel is a conversation within and between the two groups.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 6: Decolonization and the Next Hundred Years (The Desires of Curriculum)

Chair

• Ana Lucia Cruz, Saint Louis Community College

Papers

• Can Decolonization Exist in the Colonial Academy? Adding Indigenous Spiritual Narratives to the Discourse - Kelsey Dayle John, Syracuse University; Hugh Burnam, Syracuse University

• Evoking Love Through Poetry and Indigenous Hip-Hop Culture: Decolonizing Pedagogies for Remaking Self and the World - Nicole Rangel, University of California - Berkeley; Bradley J. Porfilio, California State University - East Bay

• Whose Right to What City? Learning to Resist Colonization in Settled Cities - Derek Ford

Discussant

• Sandy Grande, Connecticut College