The Politics of Citation in Curriculum Studies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Toni Morrison once said that canon building is empire building. Sara Ahmed also advances the concept of citationality to critique dominant citation practices since they are “a rather successful reproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies.” She also notes that who and the way we cite “acknowledge[s] our debt to those who came before; those who helped us find our way when the way was obscured because we deviated from the paths we were told to follow.” Drawing heavily on decolonial and feminist thought, namely Ahmed, Quijano, and Wynter, this symposium interrogates the politics of citation within the field of curriculum studies and offers insights from graduate student perspectives.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 6: De/Colonization and Transformative Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University

Papers

• Decolonial Feminism’s Ethico-Political Contributions to the Field of Education - Ana Carolina Diaz Beltran, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley; Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University

• The Coloniality of Curriculum and the Silencing of Critical Literacies - Erin R. Boiles, Texas Tech University

• Sketching the Contours of Wynter’s Decolonial Sociography - Rhyanne Wheat, Texas Tech University

• Unsettling the Coloniality of Curriculum Reform in Uganda - Gonzaga Mukasa, Texas Tech University

Discussant

• Kevin Ah-Sen, McGill University