An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space and time, this volume focuses on the westernized university, in the US and abroad. It asks questions about what is westernized about the university, what its aims are, and how those who work in, through and outside these sites of knowledge production-with local or global social movements-can participate in the slow, careful process of decolonizing the westernized university. Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without provides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world. As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse, which tends to assume the university is a neutral space, this collection will be of particular value to students and scholars working in philosophy of education, Latina/o philosophy, Africana philosophy, social epistemology, education, cultural studies, and ethnic studies, as well as to intellectual activists in the United States, south of the border, and around the world.
Introduction Ernesto Rosen Velasquez PART I: THE UNDERSIDE OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 1. The University at a Crossroads Boaventura de Sousa Santos PART II: DECOLONIZING THE WESTERNIZED UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE, THE U.S. AND LATIN AMERICA 2. About Them, But Without Them: Race and Ethnic Studies Relations in Dutch Universities Kwame Nimako 3. The Dilemmas of Ethnic Studies: In Between Liberal Multiculturalism, Identity Politics, Disciplinary Colonization, and Decolonial Epistemologies Ramon Grosfoguel 4. The Crisis of the University in the Context of Neoapartheid: A View from Ethnic Studies Nelson Maldonado-Torres 5. Dropouts as Delinkers from the Modern/Colonial World System Ernesto Rosen Velasquez 6. Damnes Realities and Ontological Disobedience: Notes on the Coloniality of Reality in Higher Education in the Bolivian Andes and Beyond Anders Burman 7. Delinking from Western Epistemology: En Route from University to Pluriversity via Interculturality Robert Aman 8. Decolonizing Humanities: The Presence of the Humanitas and the Absence of the Anthropos Tendayi Sithole PART III: DECOLONIZING PEDAGOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS 9. Philosopher-Teachers and That Little Thing Called Hasty Decolonization Nassim Noroozi 10. Decolonizing Human Rights: Implications for Human Rights Pedagogy, Scholarship and Advocacy in Westernized Universities and Schools Camilo Perez-Bustillo PART IV: ARIZONA BAN ON MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND 43 DISAPPEARED STUDENTS 11. Racial Interpellation, Civic Education and Anti-Latina/o Racism Andrea J. Pitts 12. Ayotzinapa: An Attack on Latin American Philosophy Amy Reed-Sandoval 13. Adressing Ayotzinapa: Using Dussel's Analectic Method for Establishing an Ethical Framework for Complex Social Movements Luis Ruben Diaz Cepeda
