Critical Anti-Racist Praxis in Education and Academia Methodologies for Centering Otherized Knowledges

Introduction – Critical Anti-Racist Praxis in Education and Academia: Methodologies for Centering Otherized Knowledges

Leila Mouhib and F. Zehra Çolak

1. Sounding Resistance: critical reflections on participatory sound-based research with racialized youth under surveillance

Lamia Mellal

2. Young people in museums: representation, anti-racism, and poetry as pedagogy

Sadia Habib

3. “Do I belong here?”: uncovering racialized experiences of Dutch Caribbean students in The Netherlands through a participatory action research-based intervention

Durwin Lynch, Tanja Fraai, Jelano Hendriksma, Sharin Noordzij, Sarju Sing Rai

4. Systemic racism and anti-racist strategies in higher education: a Southern European case study

Òscar Prieto-Flores, Carles Serra, Mostafà Shaimi, Cristina Zhang-Yu

5. Why are you trying to teach us about institutional racism? An autoethnographic account of experiencing racial trauma while delivering an anti-racist pedagogy workshop

Danielle Corinne Chavrimootoo

6. Getting race talk right? The non-performativity of politically correct “Right Talk” in German education

Sarah F. Gerwens

7. Layers of racism, layers of response: (re)structuring antiracism in Finnish education

Maïmouna Matikainen-Soreau, Saara Loukola, Gunilla Holm

8. Decolonial hacking of higher education: reflections on the collective relational praxis of building a School of Social Sciences in Belgium

Dounia Bourabain, Patrizia Zanoni, Leen Swinnen

9. Towards an anti-racist classroom at university? Race, empire and international relations

Leila Mouhib

10. Living and teaching from our politicised bodies: reflexive dialogue on anti-racist praxis through pedagogies of love and calling-in

Viveka Ichikawa, Sayaka Osanami Törngren

11. Joy as a technology of resistance and freedom: critical insights from racialized scholars in academia

F. Zehra Çolak, Dounia Bourabain, Zakia Essanhaji, Onur Şahin, Daudi van Veen

Biography

F. Zehra Çolak is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer. Her research draws on critical theories to trace justice-oriented pedagogies and youth belonging across urban schools and community-based programs. Her work explores alternative ways of collaborating and co-creating knowledge with communities and youth marginalized by dominant power structures.

Leila Mouhib is a lecturer in politics and a researcher interested in antiracist, decolonial and abolitionist praxis in education.  She is an editorial board member of the University Reimagined series at Manchester University Press.