Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education

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Petra Mikulan (The University of British Columbia, Canada) Michalinos Zembylas (OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, CYPRUS)

Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education

Petra Mikulan (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Michalinos Zembylas (OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, CYPRUS)

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Routledge
05 December 2023

Cultural studies; Social groups; Philosophy & theory of education; Higher & further education, tertiary education

Series: Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education

This volume argues that refusal is a viable political ethics in education. It is an ethics that allows space for new possibilities to emerge, with the potential to enrich higher education study and pedagogies in the future. Chapters examine the ethical, epistemological, political and affective premises of refusing the colonial university, and reflect upon what refusal means for higher education decolonization across international settings. Refusal marks a political ethos and praxis that denies, resists, reframes and redirects colonial and neoliberal logics, while asserting diverse sovereignties and lifeworlds. Whereas resistance may reinscribe the weakness of the colonized in the power relations with the colonizer, refusal interrupts the smooth operation of power relations, denying the authority of the settler state and remaking the rules of engagement. It is a political stance and action that denies the very legitimacy of power over the subjugated. This collection views refusal not as an end in itself, nor as a mode of critique, but as a necessary first step for educators and students in higher education to invest in the idea of radically different modes of futurity. It explores how educators and students in higher education can invent pedagogies of refusal that function ethically, affectively and politically, and asks: What do pedagogies of refusal look like? How might western universities sustain and support refusal, rather than discipline it? What assumptions are sustained by ruling out certain educational futures as out of bounds, or impossible? This book will be important reading for researchers, scholars and educators in Decolonizing Education, Higher Education Transformation, and Philosophy of Education. It will also be valuable to policymakers and activists who are considering how refusal might be carried out within and outside institutions.

Edited by: Petra Mikulan (The University of British Columbia Canada), Michalinos Zembylas (OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, CYPRUS)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781032434377
ISBN 10: 1032434376
Series: Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.