The Project of Decolonization: Taking on Our Sacred Discourse

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

The objective of this session is to explore how the field of post-colonial/decolonization studies can complicate and expand discussions on our sacred concepts such as social justice, global perspective, becoming educated, best practice, and nationalism. The project of decolonization attempts to make visible the power dynamics of continuous struggles within the interstices of colonial history and the neo-colonial present, particularly in analyzing how local-global discourses overlap and are interconnected. In doing so, we demonstrate how post-colonial studies can illuminate the continuing colonial power in our current educational discourses.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Postcolonial Studies and Education

Chair

• Roland Sintos Coloma, University of Toronto - OISE

Papers

• South Africa’s Postcolonial Moments: Tensions and Complexities of Globalization Discourse and Social Justice Education - Sharon S. Subreenduth, Bowling Green State University

• Decolonizing Global Perspectives - Binaya Subedi, The Ohio State University

• Racial Neoliberalism and an Educated Subject - Jeong-Eun Rhee, Long Island University - C.W. Post Campus

• Theorizing Is/As a “Best” Practice: Decolonizing Neoliberal (Non)Sense and Putting Gayatri Spivak To Work in Education - Stephanie Daza, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Empire as a Relevant Category of Analysis in U.S. Educational Research - Roland Sintos Coloma, University of Toronto - OISE