Decolonizing Higher Education in a Global Post-Colonial Era: #RhodesMustFall from Cape Town to Oxford

Autor/inn/en	Sunnemark, Ludvig; Thörn, Håkan
Titel	Decolonizing Higher Education in a Global Post-Colonial Era: #RhodesMustFall from Cape Town to Oxford
Quelle	In: Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 45 (2023) 1, S.53-76 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sunnemark, Ludvig)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1071-4413
DOI	10.1080/10714413.2021.2009749
Schlagwörter	Decolonization; Higher Education; Political Issues; Social Change; Racism; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; World Problems; Colonialism; Blacks; History; Activism; South Africa; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dekolonisation; Entkolonialisierung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politischer Faktor; Sozialer Wandel; Rassismus; Ausland; Globales Denken; Weltproblem; Kolonialismus; Black person; Schwarzer; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Considering globalization as part of a post-colonial conjuncture, the examination of the politics of decolonization is essential to understand key conflicts in global civil society. Recently, a global movement for the decolonization of higher education has played a key role in this context, with the #RhodesMustFall movement being particularly important. Starting at the University of Cape Town and spreading to Oxford University, the movement initially protested against the presence of statues of Cecil Rhodes at both sites. We argue that the #RhodesMustFall movement is part of what we call a "global field of decolonial politics." We also demonstrate how movement discourse is necessarily rearticulated when shifting context: the primary characteristic of the UCT discourse is its constitution of "black" subjectivity, while the Oxford discourse is largely shaped by the diasporic situation of formerly colonized peoples within an ex-metropolis, constructing multiple plural subjectivities and recovering issues of race and coloniality from political margins. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01