Decolonizing the Westernized University

Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without

Edited by Ramón Grosfoguel; Roberto Hernández and Ernesto Rosen Velásquez - Contributions by Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Kwame Nimako; Ramón Grosfoguel; Nelson Maldonado-Torres; Ernesto Rosen Velásquez; Anders Burman; Robert Aman; Tendayi Sithole; Camilo Pérez-Bustillo; Andrea J. Pitts; Amy Reed-Sandoval; Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda and Nassim Noroozi

An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space and time, this volume focuses on the westernized university, in the US and abroad. It asks questions about what is westernized about the university, what its aims are, and how those who work in, through and outside these sites of knowledge production—with local or global social movements—can participate in the slow, careful process of decolonizing the westernized university. Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without provides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world.

As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse, which tends to assume the university is a neutral space, this collection will be of particular value to students and scholars working in philosophy of education, Latina/o philosophy, Africana philosophy, social epistemology, education, cultural studies, and ethnic studies, as well as to intellectual activists in the United States, south of the border, and around the world.

Lexington Books

Pages: 280 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-0375-4 • Hardback • October 2016 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-0377-8 • Paperback • May 2018 • $57.99 • (£45.00)

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Subjects: Philosophy / Social, Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

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Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without

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An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space and time, this volume focuses on the westernized university, in the US and abroad. It asks questions about what is westernized about the university, what its aims are, and how those who work in, through and outside these sites of knowledge production—with local or global social movements—can participate in the slow, careful process of decolonizing the westernized university. Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without provides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world.

As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse, which tends to assume the university is a neutral space, this collection will be of particular value to students and scholars working in philosophy of education, Latina/o philosophy, Africana philosophy, social epistemology, education, cultural studies, and ethnic studies, as well as to intellectual activists in the United States, south of the border, and around the world.

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 280 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-0375-4 • Hardback • October 2016 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-0377-8 • Paperback • May 2018 • $57.99 • (£45.00)

978-1-4985-0376-1 • eBook • October 2016 • $55.00 • (£42.00)

Subjects: Philosophy / Social, Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

Author

Ramón Grosfoguel is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkley.

Roberto D. Hernández is assistant professor of Chicana/o studies at San Diego State University.

Ernesto Rosen Velásquez is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Ernesto Rosen Velásquez

PART I: THE UNDERSIDE OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
1. The University at a Crossroads
Boaventura de Sousa Santos

PART II: DECOLONIZING THE WESTERNIZED UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE, THE U.S. AND LATIN AMERICA
2. About Them, But Without Them: Race and Ethnic Studies Relations in DutchUniversities
Kwame Nimako

3. The Dilemmas of Ethnic Studies: In Between Liberal Multiculturalism, Identity Politics, Disciplinary Colonization, and Decolonial Epistemologies
Ramón Grosfoguel

4. The Crisis of the University in the Context of Neoapartheid: A View from Ethnic Studies
Nelson Maldonado-Torres

5. Dropouts as Delinkers from the Modern/Colonial World System
Ernesto Rosen Velásquez

6. Damnés Realities and Ontological Disobedience: Notes on the Coloniality of Reality in Higher Education in the Bolivian Andes and Beyond
Anders Burman

7. Delinking from Western Epistemology: En Route from University to Pluriversity
viaInterculturality
Robert Aman

8. Decolonizing Humanities: The Presence of the Humanitas and the Absence of the
Anthropos
Tendayi Sithole

PART III: DECOLONIZING PEDAGOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

9. Philosopher-Teachers and That Little Thing Called Hasty Decolonization
Nassim Noroozi

10. Decolonizing Human Rights: Implications for Human Rights Pedagogy, Scholarship
and Advocacy in Westernized Universities and Schools
Camilo Pérez-Bustillo

PART IV: ARIZONA BAN ON MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND 43 DISAPPEARED STUDENTS

11. Racial Interpellation, Civic Education and Anti-Latina/o Racism
Andrea J. Pitts

12. Ayotzinapa: An Attack on Latin American Philosophy
Amy Reed-Sandoval

13. Adressing Ayotzinapa: Using Dussel’s Analectic Method for Establishing
an Ethical Framework for Complex Social Movements
Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda

Reviews

This volume offers a highly insightful contribution to debates in critical pedagogy as well as to practices of decolonisation more generally.... [T]he volume unambiguously succeeds in conveying the urgency with which the Westernised university needs to be decolonised.
— Marx and Philosophy Review of Books