Neoliberal Effects on Indigenous Education: Community Response and Decolonial Possibility

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Neoliberalism, a set of economic principles that articulates itself in a myriad of ways depending on its location, is an iteration of settler capitalism aimed at maintaining Indigenous land dispossession. As neoliberal educational policies develop, Indigenous people, communities and nations, face new opportunities and challenges. Education – public education in particular – has long been a tool of colonial governance and Indigenous communities feels its ramifications intensely. This session examines neoliberalism in particular educational contexts for Indigenous communities. By considering Indigenous community responses to neoliberal capitalism as it pertains to education in their communities, decolonial possibilities open up for education inside and outside of schools.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Social Contexts of Educational Policy and Politics

Chair

• Patricia Baquedano-Lopez, University of California - Berkeley

Papers

• Da:ydi-xw na:tinixwe mixine:whe? The Necessity of Working Outside the Public School for Hupa Language Revitalization - Sara Chase, Berkeley University of California

• Suwali Possibilities: Neoliberalism, Knowledge Production, and the Karbi People of Assam, India - Derrika Hunt, University of California - Berkeley

• Declaring "Chahta Sia Hoke" (I Am Choctaw): Choctaw Political Ascendancy and Neoliberal Education Policy in Oklahoma - Megan Baker, University of California - Los Angeles