The Use of Decolonization Within Ethnic Studies, Refugee Studies, and Gender and Empire/Counter-Terrorism Discourses

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The discussion brings conversations and theoretical knowledge from fields such as critical refugee studies, ethnic studies, empire studies and social justice education. The discussion advocates for a framework of inquiry that critiques colonial domination and the legacies of European/US imperialism and settler colonialism (Loomba, 1998; Smith, 1999). Within the interstices of colonial history and the neo-colonial present, this session not only engages with social justice question in North American context but also in relation to local-global issues such as surveillance, terrorism, gender inequities, attack on ethnic studies and activism. The papers contribute to making visible the power dynamics that exists in past and present anti-colonial struggles, particularly in analyzing how local-global discourses (Islamophobia, anti-immigrant policies, etc.) overlap and are interconnected.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Macro-analysis of the social contexts of teaching and learning

Chair

• Binaya Subedi, The Ohio State University

Papers

• Neoliberalism, Race, and a Sense of Belonging of Refugee Youth - Binaya Subedi, The Ohio State University

• Representing Social Justice: Youth Activism, Media, and the Struggles for Ethnic Studies - Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University

• The Postcolonial Challenge of (Counter)Terrorism for Academic Activism - Stephanie Lynn Curley, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Transnational Acts of Social-Educational Activism - Sharon S. Subreenduth, Bowling Green State University

• Decentering (Imperial) Nation-Think: Toward Diversely Embodied Onto-Epistemologies in Public Education as Activism - Jeong-Eun Rhee, Long Island University - C.W. Post Campus