The Longue Durée of the Geopolitics of Curriculum

• In Event: Can't Take My Eyes Off of You: Uncovering/Dissecting Narratives of Inequality

Abstract

In this paper, I adopt a decolonial perspective to understand institutional changes and analyze the extent to which the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) perpetuates coloniality. I intersect local transformations within a modern/colonial world-systems framework to situate UNAH beyond political-economic paradigms that refuse to depart from the nation-state as the central unit of analysis (Grosfoguel, 2007). Here, we are dealing with the subjective as well as the intersubjective, that is, the socio-cultural, political, and epistemological dimensions of the university and the global entanglements these dimensions manifest. By examining higher education’s curriculum through a broader modern/colonial framework, I point to the ways the curriculum at UNAH sustains the geopolitics and coloniality of knowledge, power, and being.

Author

• Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Independent Researcher