Interrogating Sovereignty: Settler Colonialism, Antiblackness, and Language Across Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium engages with the idea of “Accepting Educational Responsibility'' through a theoretical engagement with sovereignty. Our papers attend to the ways settler colonialism and anti-blackness delimit the rights and duties of citizenship and the power differentially bestowed through sovereignty. Converging from diverse geopolitical locations, we tackle questions about sovereignty and the ways this ideological construct is employed in divergent social, geographical, and political spaces. Each paper focuses on the intersections of sovereignty, language, and education by providing an inter- and intranational look at how educational projects in diverse locales work in concert to reproduce settler colonialism and anti-blackness. Collectively, this session unsettles educational research by forwarding questions that imagine abolitionist, decolonial, anti-oppressive pathways of thought in education research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University

Papers

• Possessing English Education: Liberal Teacher Education Spaces and the Reproduction of White Settler Sovereignty - Dinorah Sanchez Loza, The Ohio State University; Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University

• Sovereign Speech and the Psychic Space of the Classroom: Black Bodies, White Space - Joyce Maxwell, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Interrogating Education Sovereignty, Language, and Epistemicide in Initial Teacher Education - Andrea Lira, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• Ligia L. López López, The University of Melbourne