1st Edition
Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education
Series Editors’ Introduction
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
Introduction: Refusing the Colonial University
Petra Mikulan, Michalinos Zembylas
Part I Refusing Coloniality of Life-and-Death in Higher Education
1. Conditions of Arrival: On Refusing to Be Included
Asilia Franklin-Phipps and Robyn Stout-Sheridan
2. The Affective Dimensions of Refusal in Higher Education Decolonization: Pedagogical Implications
Michalinos Zembylas
3. Populating the Savage Slot: Decolonizing Autoethnographic Refusals in Higher Education
Adam Rudder
4. Refusing Higher Education: Vivacide and the Economies of Dissipation
P. Taylor Webb
Part II Antiracist Refusal and Political Pedagogical Action
5. Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Australian Colonial logic of the Centre and Aboriginal Refusal
Lester-Irabinna Rigney
6. Anger’s erotic politics: Antiracist refusal as decolonial political action.
Shirley Anne Tate
7. (Re)imagining HESA through Refusal; The Complexities of Confronting Colonialism the University
Agustin Diaz, Angie Kim, Alonso R. Reyna Rivarola, Sharon Stein
8. Plastic Refusals; The Africanisation Challenge of South African Higher Education
André Keet, Michaela Ann Penkler, Luan Staphorst, Joseph Besigye Bazirake, and Daniella Rafaely
Part III (Po)ethical Praxis of Refusal
9. Refusing Archives of Possibility; A Decolonial Praxis of Temporalizing Ethics
Petra Mikulan
10. Refusing coloniality; An ethical praxis of paying attention to words in academic writing
Elizabeth Mackinlay
11. Slow reading as refusal; Doing higher education differently
Vivienne Bozalek
Afterword: begin with a refusal
Ella Martindale, Kaitlin Rizarri, John Pierre Craig, Jo Billows, Jacqueline L. Scott
Biography
Petra Mikulan is Sessional Lecturer of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Michalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus.
