Introduction
Given the central role of universities in social reproduction, and in the creation and legitimation of knowledge, decolonization and its place in higher education are a subject of significant interest in both social movements and scholarly critique across the globe. Decolonization can be broadly understood as an umbrella term for diverse efforts to resist the distinct but intertwined processes of colonization and racialization, to enact transformation and redress in reference to the historical and ongoing effects of these processes, and to create and keep alive modes of knowing, being, and relating that these processes seek to eradicate. Colonization and racialization have both material and epistemic dimensions, which together shape social relations and enshrine categories that are then used to justify: occupation of Indigenous land; expropriation and expendability of Black life; the binary, heteropatriarchal gender system; claims about the universality of modern Western...
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Stein, S., de Andreotti, V.O. (2016). Decolonization and Higher Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_479-1
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