1st Edition
Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning
Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning is a resource for teachers and learners seeking to participate in the creation of radical and liberating spaces in the academy and beyond. This edited volume is inspired by, and applies, decolonial and feminist thought – two fields with powerful traditions of critical pedagogy, which have shared productive exchange.
The structure of this collection reflects the synergies between decolonial and feminist thought in its four parts, which offer reflections on the politics of knowledge; the challenging pathways of finding your voice; the constraints and possibilities of institutional contexts; and the relation between decolonial and feminist thought and established academic disciplines. To root this book in the political struggles that inspire it, and to maintain the close connection between political action and reflection in praxis, chapters are interspersed with manifestos formulated by activists from across the world, as further resources for learning and teaching.
These essays definitively argue that the decolonization of universities, through the re-examination of how knowledge is produced and taught, is only strengthened when connected to feminist and critical queer and gender perspectives. Concurrently, they make the compelling case that gender and feminist teaching can be enhanced and developed when open to its own decolonization.
List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: decolonization and feminisms in global teaching and learning – a radical space of possibility, Rosalba Icaza and Sara de Jong; PART I Knowledge; Chapter 1 CarteArte: below and on the left in purple, Batallones Femeninos; Chapter 2 Pacific peoples, higher education and feminisms, Sereana Naepi; Chapter 3 Feminizing and decolonizing higher education: pedagogies of dignity in Colombia and Australia, Sara C. Motta; Chapter 4 Undoing colonial patriarchies: life and struggle pathway,s Xochitl Leyva Solano; Chapter 5 About the Transnational Network Other Knowledges: La Red Trasnacional Otros Saberes (RETOS) between crises and other possible worlds, Red Trasnacional Otros Saberes; PART II Voice; Chapter 6 The decolonization manifesto, Wanelisa Xaba; Chapter 7 The liability of foreignness: decolonial struggles of migrants negotiating African identity within UK nurse education, Roselyn Masamha; Chapter 8 Decolonial feminist teaching and learning: what is the space of decolonial feminist teaching? Françoise Vergès; Chapter 9 ATELIER IV Manifesto, Françoise Vergès et al.; PART III Institutions; Chapter 10 What a new university in Africa is doing to decolonize social sciences, Jess Auerbach; Chapter 11 Coloniality of power, knowledge and modes of (des)authorization: occupation practices in Brazilian schools and universities, Marta Fernández and Andréa Gill; Chapter 12 Learning from prisons: decolonial feminism and teaching approaches from prison to university, Elena Vasiliou; Chapter 13 Post-it notes to my lecturers, Roselyn Masamha; PART IV Disciplines; Chapter 14 Intervention, Sixteen participants of the "Crossing Borders" conference in Lesbos, Greece, July 2016; Chapter 15 On babies and bathwater: decolonizing International Development Studies, Olivia U. Rutazibwa; Chapter 16 "Straight from the heart": a pedagogy for the vanquished of history, Asha Varadharajan; Chapter 17 Notes on Europe and Europeans for the discerning traveller, Robbie Shilliam; Index
Biography
Sara de Jong is Lecturer in Politics at the University of York, UK. Her research on the politics of unequal encounters in a global world has been published in several journal articles and in the monograph Complicit Sisters: Gender and Women's Issues across North–South Divides (2017).
Rosalba Icaza is Senior Lecturer in Governance and International Political Economy at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on decolonial feminism and global politics, and her essay ‘Social Struggles and the Coloniality of Gender’ was recently published in The Routledge Handbook on Postcolonial Politics (2018).
Olivia U. Rutazibwa is Senior Lecturer in European and International Development Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research centers on decolonial thinking and international solidarity. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics (2018) and associate editor of International Feminist Journal of Politics.
"A sincere invitation to learn at the vibrant interfaces of feminist and decolonial theory and critical pedagogy. A credible call to rediscover the classroom as a site of politics and solidarity. A genuine commitment to a subversive practice of ‘doing academia’ in the global coloniality of the corporate university and beyond."
Claudia Brunner, Assistant Professor, Centre for Peace Studies and Peace Education, Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Austria
