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Book SynopsisAn 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 productionwith local or global social movementscan 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 aroun
Trade ReviewThis 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 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 Dutch Universities 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 via Interculturality 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
