63.033 - Reimagining the Modern/Colonial University: Toward Alternative Horizons of Higher Education Otherwise

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

What is the role of higher education within the current “post-truth” era of politics and knowledge? In this session, we take up this question by identifying, unsettling, and unravelling the enduring racial-colonial logics of contemporary universities. Through panelists’ theoretical and qualitative inquiries, we demonstrate how institutions of higher education rely on politically and ethically limited tools within the liberal imaginary and thus fail to grapple with the truths of our varying institutional contexts themselves. We posit that critical engagements with enduring racial-colonial conditions shaping higher education are not only necessary to address the violent logics and policies rearticulated through “post-truth” claims, but to also work towards the practical challenge of creating alternative educational futures otherwise.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Education and Place, Space, Time

Chair

• Rosalind Hampton, University of Ottawa, Canada

Papers

• Students Movements in Chile: Alternative Possibilities for Higher Education? - Roxana Chiappa, University of Washington - Seattle

• Student of Color Activisms and Critical Interdisciplinarity in the Neoliberal University - Kristi Carey, The University of British Columbia

• Navigating the White Masculine Imprint in Higher Education - Sereana Naepi, Thompson Rivers University

• Decolonial Accountability and Ethics in Higher Education - Sheeva Sabati, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Beyond Higher Education as We Know It: Gesturing Toward Decolonial Horizons - Sharon Stein, The University of British Columbia

Discussant

• Rosalind Hampton, University of Ottawa, Canada