| ID | 174040 |
| Title Proper | Rehumanising the university for an alternative future |
| Other Title Information | decolonisation, alternative epistemologies and cognitive justice |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Dawson, Marcelle C |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Reflecting on the shifting landscape of higher education, this discussion highlights how inequality is entrenched within the university, largely as a result of Western-inspired, commodified knowledge production processes. The article grapples with scholarship on cognitive justice and builds a case for transformative resistance that is simultaneously anti-colonial and anti-neoliberal, within, against and beyond the Westernised university. The discussion concentrates specifically on epistemic hegemonies and internationalisation, and argues that substantive decolonisation as a counterhegemonic project must entail an intellectual element that is aimed at transforming the knowledge structures that facilitate dehumanisation. The pursuit of more equitable, anti-racist futures must thus involve the identification and obliteration of deeply embedded epistemic hegemonies, which have been created through the dehumanising processes of capital expansion and colonisation. This article offers a hopeful approach that encourages the collaborative creation of a counter-university that actively pursues epistemic diversity as a pathway to alternative futures. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 27, No.1; Feb 2020: p.71-90 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2020-02 27, 1 |
| Key Words | Decolonisation ; Alternative Futures ; Cognitive Justice ; Alternative Epistemologies ; Global Neo-Colonialism ; Internationalisation Of Higher Education |