Decolonising the University

Edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıolu

Publication date:

20 August 2018

Length of book:

272 pages

Publisher

Pluto Press

ISBN-13: 9781786803160

In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolonisation of the world's universities.

Today, as this movement grows, how will it radically transform the terms upon which universities exist? In this book, students, activists and scholars discuss the possibilities and the pitfalls of doing decolonial work in the home of the coloniser, in the heart of the establishment. Subverting curricula, enforcing diversity, and destroying old boundaries, this is a radical call for a new era of education.

Offering resources for students and academics to challenge and resist coloniality inside and outside the classroom, Decolonising the University provides the tools for radical pedagogical, disciplinary and institutional change.

1. Introduction: Decolonising the University? - Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nişancıoğlu
PART I - CONTEXTS: HISTORICAL AND DISCIPLINARY
2. Rhodes Must Fall: Oxford and Movements for Change - Dalia Gebrial
3. Race and the Neoliberal University: Lessons from the Public University - John Holmwood
4. Black/Academia - Robbie Shilliam
5. Decolonising Philosophy - Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rafael Vizcaíno, Jasmine Wallace and Jeong Eun Annabel We
PART II - INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVES
6. Asylum University: Re-situating Knowledge-exchange along Cross-border Positionalities - Kolar Aparna and Olivier Kramsch
7. Diversity or Decolonisation? Researching Diversity at the University of Amsterdam - Rosalba Icaza and Rolando Vázquez
8. The Challenge for Black Studies in the Neoliberal University - Kehinde Andrews
9. Open Initiatives for Decolonising the Curriculum - Pat Lockley
PART III - DECOLONIAL REFLECTIONS
10. Meschachakanis, a Coyote Narrative: Decolonising Higher Education - Shauneen Pete
11. Decolonising Education: A Pedagogic Intervention - Carol Azumah Dennis
12. Internationalisation and Interdisciplinarity: Sharing acrossBoundaries? - Angela Last
13. Understanding Eurocentrism as a Structural Problem of Undone Science - William Jamal Richardson
Notes on Contributors
Index

'A very well-researched and highly readable book that I feel compelled to highly recommend'