Socially Just Pedagogies: Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
	A posthuman ontology
	The socio-political dimension
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Introduction
	Structure of the book
	Conclusion
	References
Part One Theoretical Perspectives
	1 #Itmustallfall, or, Pedagogy for a People to Come
		#Rhodesmustfall #Feesmustfall #Itmustallfall
		Black Skin, White Masks, a.k.a. The White Wall/Black Hole System
		Probe-Heads, Disidentification and Defacialisation
		Effectuating Socially Just Pedagogies, or, Pedagogy for a People to Come
		Conclusion
		References
	2 Feminism and Feminist Studies in Neoliberal Times: Furthering Social Justice in Higher Education Curricula1
		Looking Back into the Future: Feminism and Neoliberalism
		Returning to the Matter of Th inking as Mattering for Social Justice
		Practicing Critical Th inking and/as Diffraction: (Post)human(ist) Interventions
		The Powers of Feminist Imagination in Neoliberal Times
		Notes
		References
	3 Practicing Refl ection or Diffraction? Implications for Research Methodologies in Education1
		Reflection – What is it?
		Diffraction – What is it?
		Reflection and Diffraction: Continuities and Breaks
		Implications of Diffractive Analysis for Research Methodology
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	4 The Politics of Animality and Posthuman Pedagogy
		Introduction
		Arche-fossils, aporias and anti-humanism
		An ethico-aesthetic paradigm orientated toward a life
		Dark haecceities, sonic ecologies of fear and transformative panic
		Conclusion: pedagogical science fictions
		References
Part Two Ethics and Response-ability in Pedagogical Practices
	5 Each Intra-Action Matters: Towards a Posthuman Ethics for Enlarging Response- ability in Higher Education Pedagogic Practice-ings
		Introduction
		Why we need to exit the cul-de-sac of humanism
		Posthuman Ethics/Relational Orientations
		Pedagogic Practice-ings for Enlarging Ethical Sense-abilities and Response-abilities
		Conclusion
		References
	6 A Pedagogy of Response-ability
		Introduction
		Ethics of care and posthumanism as relational ontologies
		Attentiveness
		Responsibility
		In conclusion – moving towards a pedagogy of response-ability
		Notes
		References
	7 Me Lo Dijo Un Pajarito – Neurodiversity, Black Life and the University As We Know It
		Neurodiversity in the University
		Power/Knowledge
		Research-Creation
		The Outside
		Emergent Socialities
		The Free Indirect
		More-Than Human
		In the Ruins
		References
	8 An Ethico-Onto-Epistemological Pedagogy of Qualitative Research: Knowing/Being/Doing in the Neoliberal Academy
		Teaching ← → Learning of Qualitative Research: Neoliberalism and The Material Turn
		Intentional Planning: What We Sought To Do
		Entangled Becomings: (Some of) What We Did and Why
		Data Production/Theories/Methods: Our (Processes of) Th inking
		An Ethico-Onto-Epistemological Pedagogy: What It (Can) Produce(d)
		Notes
		References
Part Three Locating Social Justice Pedagogies in Diverse Contexts
	9 Finding Child Beyond ‘Child’: A Posthuman Orientation to Foundation Phase Teacher Education in South Africa
		Decolonisation, coloniality and child
		Age performativity and justice-to-come
		Posthuman Teacher Education in South Africa
		Posthumanism and child as ‘fellow traveller’
		Childhood studies in the historical period of the ‘Great Dithering’
		Acknowledgement
		Funding
		Notes
		References
	10 Embodied Pedagogies: Performative Activism and Transgressive Pedagogies in the Sexual and Gender Justice Project in Higher Education in Contemporary South Africa
		Introduction
		Young women disrupting the colonial project of higher education: the ascendancy of African femininity in the case of the fall of Rhodes
		Troubling the erasure of bodies
		Unruly bodies against sexual violence
		Thinking performative activism with social justice pedagogical imperatives
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	11 Narrative Vases as Markers of Subjectivity, Agency and Voice: Engaging Feminist Pedagogies Within the Context of #feesmustfall
		Situated knowledges
		Matrixial trans-subjectivity
		Agential Realism
		Background to the Design Foundation Course
		Case study: Design your own Greek vase
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	12 Thebuwa and a Pedagogy of Social Justice: Diffracting Multimodality Through Posthumanism
		The case study and its context
		Moving towards a diffractive analysis
		Thebuwa and the wave of multimodality
		Thebuwa and the wave of posthumanism
		The overlapping of waves: social justice, human rights and posthumanist becoming
		Acknowledgements
		References
Index