Colonization and Epistemic Injustice in Higher Education: Precursors to Decolonization

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Chapter 1: The conceptual ‘jungle’ of the decolonisation of Higher Education: Contestations, contradictions, and opportunities
	Introduction
	The pre-colonial condition
	The industrial revolution in Europe and North America
		Opium
		Potatoes
		Cocoa
		Maize
		Cocaine
		Diamonds
		Human beings
		Rubber
		Agar
		Uranium
	The growth of Christianity
	Modernity and the period of Enlightenment in Europe
	The scramble for Africa and the colonies
	Marxism
	Colonisation, colonialism, and decolonisation
		Colonial education: A relentless experience of cognitive violence
	Decolonisation
	Coloniality and decoloniality
	Conclusion
		A synopsis of the chapters in the book
	References
Chapter 2: Is Canadian higher education under attack by neoliberal policies?
	Introduction
	Classical view of higher education
	Theoretical framework
	The role of the Welfare State
	Neoliberalism vs liberalism
	Problematizing the market model
	The new structure
	Management structure: new college deans
	Performance-based funding
	Federal funding
	Ontario
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Long road to decolonization of neoliberal and Eurocentric South African higher education
	Introduction
	Neoliberalism
	Neoliberalism and higher education
	Neoliberalism in South Africa and its impact on higher education
	Post-apartheid status quo in South African higher education
	Conclusion: Long road to decolonization in South African higher education
	References
Chapter 4: Cwélelep: Dissonance and new learning at the University of Victoria
	Territorial acknowledgement
	Introduction
	About the authors
	Why we are writing together
	Understanding decolonization
	Decolonial scaffolding at the University of Victoria
	Lorna’s story
	Schalay’nung Szweg’qa
	Conclusions
	Note
	References
Chapter 5: Decolonization and internationalization of higher education in Vietnam: A historical perspective
	Introduction
	Decolonization and internationalization of higher education
	Colonization, decolonization, and internationalization of higher education in Vietnam
		Chinese colonial influence
		French colonial influence
	Decolonization and Internationalization of higher education
		The period between 1954 and 1986
		After the “Doi Moi” 1986
	Internationalization of tertiary education at institutional level
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: The politics of knowing in African universities: A search for decolonised epistemologies
	Introduction
	University in Africa or African university?
	The politics of knowledge redefined
	Nature of knowledge in contemporary African universities as a political affair
	In search of liberated knowledges
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: The Decolonization of History at the Universities of Malaysia and Singapore: Historical and Philosophical Antecedents
	Introduction
	‘Epistemic Injustice’ in Malaysia’s and Singapore’s Colonial Era
	The University of Malaya and the Decolonization of Historical Knowledge
	Decolonizing History at the Chinese Nanyang University in the 1950s and 1960s
	The Decolonization of History in Malaysia during the 1960s
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Australian Higher Education: God bless you if it’s good to you
	Introduction
		Blackness in Australia
	Setting the scene
		Why is it important to be reflexive?
		Why cultural studies?
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: From the ideal to non-ideal: Towards decolonized higher education in Africa
	Introduction
	Limits of the HE decolonization discourse
	The subtlety of globality: ravages of neoliberalism
	Giroux’s bare pedagogy and Freire’s pedagogy with the people
	Meaningful decolonization
	Regional solidarity: Epistemic decolonization as a political project
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 10: Colonisation and epistemic injustice revisited: A reflection on emerging themes
	Introduction
		Revisiting the conceptual terrain of decolonisation
		Epistemic injustice/violence
		Why higher education resists decolonisation
	The colonial legacy of post-colonial higher education systems
	Decoloniality
	Challenges and barriers to decolonising knowledge systems
	Is decolonisation an issue of global or local significance?
	A reflective account of emerging themes from the book
		Epistemic violence
	Feministic theory of epistemic violence
		Decolonisation as a multimodal and dispersed authority theory of resistance
		The heterogeneity of the decolonial higher education terrains across the world
		Bifurcated colonial control
		The continued dominance of colonial models in post-colonial higher education systems
	Concluding thoughts and implications
	References
Index