Decolonial Theories and Pedagogies of Liberation: Resistance and Re-Existence

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Critical attention has been drawn to the marginalization or outright exclusion of decolonial discourses, histories, and liberatory practices originating in the Global South, particularly within the dominant academic discourse of the Global North. These ongoing debates underscore the tendency to strip politically charged concepts or texts, such as (de), of their contextual depth by overlooking the real-world sites of struggle (praxis) where these discourses take shape. Drawing on decolonial and feminist thinkers, we point to the relationality of decolonial thought in educational praxis and research methodologies. The symposium includes transdisciplinary contributions that advance genealogical, theoretical, methodological, and empirical studies. Panelists delve into Palestinian feminist praxis, borderland pedagogy, testimonio and research methodologies in defiance of racial capitalism.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education

Chair

• Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University

Papers

• Decolonial Feminist Praxis and the Erasure of Indigenous Knowledge in Gaza: Confronting Systemic Academic Repression and Colonial Violence - Amanda Najib, New York University; Lila Sharif, Arizona State University; Amira Jamarkani, San Diego State University

• Decolonial Feminism(s) as Border Thinking - Nathalia E Jaramillo, Kennesaw State University

• Testimonios with/from Una Mirada al Sur - Freyca Calderon-Berumen, Pennsylvania State University - Altoona

• Hemispheric Mexican-Origin Indigenous Farmworker Family Liberation Struggles for Land, Water, and Life - Tomás Alberto Madrigal, Independent

• Intercambio as Methodology for Defiant Solidarity - Davíd Morales, Stanford University

Discussant

• Ana Carolina Diaz Beltran, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley