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Recovering Anticolonialism as an Intellectual and Political Project in Education
Educational Theory, v74 n5 p759-779 2024
In this essay, Michalinos Zembylas revisits the tension between decolonization and other social justice projects in education scholarship, focusing in particular on the arguments for and against the notion of decolonization as land return. While different colonized communities are justifiably projecting their own political priorities in struggles against specific colonial forms of domination, Zembylas argues that education as scholarship and practice would be well served to recover the "anticolonial" as a "shared" intellectual and political project for understanding the different practices and experiences of resistance to colonialism and imperialism around the world. Anticolonial thought and praxis offer education scholars, activists, and practitioners an intellectual and political framework of connectivity and anticolonial solidarity that neither erases differences between decolonization and other political projects, nor fails to foreground community building between fields, approaches, and geographical regions. Instead of seeing different political projects as competing against one another -- e.g., by considering social justice projects that do not prioritize land return as misguided or misplaced -- anticolonialism seeks to theorize and act against a broad range of colonial practices and by-products that include racism, militarism, resources exploitation, land dispossession, and so on.
Descriptors: Decolonization, Social Justice, Educational Research, Scholarship, Land Settlement, Politics of Education, Resistance (Psychology), Praxis, Activism, Intellectual Disciplines, Competition, Racism, War, Resources
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