Recovering the Third World Studies Project: Towards New Visions of Anti-Imperial Pedagogies & Global Solidarities

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This panel looks to the “Third World Project” as a political, epistemic, and pedagogic intervention uniquely situated to challenge the current consolidation of racist, fascist, imperialist power. Third World Studies represents an unprecedented–and still unreplicated–decolonial curricular vision born of the inseparability of political struggle, global solidarity, and educational transformation. The panel demonstrates why educational research must think transnationally about educational problems, with papers focusing on: imperial legacies of policing in British and American schools, struggles around genocidal violence in Palestine as a site for educational justice, the co-optation of decolonial education by Hindutva in India, Palestinian cultural producers building third world internationalism, and lessons from the Third World Liberation Front and the Québec student movement for education today.

Sub Unit

• International Relations Committee

Chair

• Krystal Strong, Rutgers University

Papers

• Policing in British and American Schools: Tracing the Educational Legacies of Empire - Derron Wallace, Brandeis University

• Palestine, Third World Solidarities, and Projects of Educational Justice - Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University; Christopher Jadallah, University of California - Los Angeles

• Decolonial Education as Contradiction: Development, Dispossession & Contested Visions of Indigenous Futures in Western India - Karishma Desai, Rutgers University

• The Lost Archive of Liberation: Lotus and the Palestinian Place in Afro-Asian Internationalism - Chandni Desai, University of Toronto

• Coalition Building at Canadian Universities, Black Radical Thought and “Third World” Liberation - rosalind hampton, University of Toronto - OISE

Session Organizers

• Krystal Strong, Rutgers University

• Karishma Desai, Rutgers University

Discussant

• Linda T. Smith, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi