Micromomental Mindset Toward Anticolonial Intentionality

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Abstract

This paper theorises ‘anti-colonial micro-moments’ as innovations in the dynamic ecology of language and English language teacher education programmes. In avoidance of the possible ‘metaphorization’ (Tuck & Yang, 2012) or ‘sloganization’ (Ndhlovu, 2020) of decolonization that often transpires in scholarly discourse, this chapter does not claim to decolonize. We are not unmaking structures of invasion with our university work yet we are cultivating anti-colonial hope. Our minds and hearts hold the possibilities of this very unmaking at the forefront as we accumulate, criticize, and strategize within the university (la paperson, 2017). We look instead to anti-colonial hope (Zembylas, 2022), as a sustainable modus operandus within higher education to co-construct knowledge, relationships, and a programme that resists current conditions of coloniality. 

Authors

• Sultan Turkan, Queen's University - Belfast

• Mel M. Engman, Queen's University - Belfast