Decolonial Options in Higher Education

Cracks and Fissures
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-83668-088-8
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 187 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

In order for decolonization to avoid becoming yet another orthodoxy, this book argues that it is necessary to recognize the neoliberal ideologies and imperatives that drive so much work in universities in both the Global Norths and Global Souths, and to understand the enmeshment (both historical and ongoing) of universities in colonial practices. The chapters interrogate both these issues and the terms in which they are usually critiqued in order to identify the cracks and fissures within institutions that may enable decolonization to be leveraged as a praxis and a means of radical change. The chapters explore a range of issues across Higher Education including reparations, allyship, soft power, academic publishing and the politics of race within the university; together they represent an argument for the necessity of continually rethinking and re-making the theories, methods and assumptions of decolonization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makoni, Sinfree

Merwe, Chanel van der

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

André Keet: Foreword

Sinfree Makoni and Chanel van der Merwe: Introduction: Decolonial Options in Higher Education: Cracks and Fissures

1. Horace G. Campbell: Reparations and the University in the 21st Century

2. Jonathan Jansen: How Institutions Defang Radical Curriculum Ideas: The Fate of Decolonization in South African Universities

3. Tshepo Madlingozi: Decoloniality as the Forging of Communities of Critical Consciousness or Beloved Communities

4. Pedro Mzileni and Chanel van der Merwe: Interlude: A Conversation with Dr Pedro Mzileni about #RhodesMustFall and Decolonial Options in Higher Education

5. Shirley Anne Tate: The Impossibility of Black–White Feminist Allyship: A Summary

6. Raewyn Connell: The Good University

7. Kenneth King: China and India’s Higher Education Cooperation with Africa: Cultural Diplomacy and Soft Power

8. Diana Jeater: Imperial Standards in African Publishing

9. Adam Habib: Structural Racism, Social Change and the Politics of Race in Universities in the United Kingdom

Cécile B. Vigouroux: Epilogue

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Makoni, Sinfree
Sinfree Makoni is Director of African Studies, Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Merwe, Chanel van der
Chanel van der Merwe is Lecturer in linguistics and applied linguistics at Nelson Mandela University, and a doctoral candidate at University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research interests include the African university, language policy, multilingualism, feminist and southern epistemologies. She is an organizing team member of the Global Virtual Forum hosted by the African Studies Centre at Penn State University under the leadership of Professor Sinfree Makoni.

Sinfree Makoni is a Liberal Arts Professor in applied linguistics and African studies and Director of the African Studies Program at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He holds Extraordinary Professorship, Visiting Professor and Researcher positions at several South African institutions: North-West University, Nelson Mandela University, University of the Western Cape and University of Zululand.

Chanel van der Merwe is a Lecturer in linguistics and applied linguistics at Nelson Mandela University, and a doctoral candidate at University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research interests include the African university, language policy, multilingualism and feminist and southern epistemologies. She is an organizing team member of the Global Virtual Forum hosted by the African Studies Centre at Penn State University under the leadership of Professor Sinfree Makoni.