A Critical Ethnography of University Student Activism in Post-Coup Honduras: Collective Identities, Knowledges, and Practices of Resistance

The sociopolitical turn in mathematics education and decolonial theory

“…It is equally important to make more visible the emerging practices that point to pluriversal ways of engaging mathematics, not as an end in itself, but as a means to create a world otherwise -a world where mathematical knowledge, among other knowledges, is no longer linked to power, and to colonialism's calculated project of dispossession and subjugation. Decolonial mathematics education is thus not only about epistemic justice; its aim is ontological insofar as alternative world-making practices are at the heart of pluriversality and decoloniality (Fúnez-Flores, 2020Savransky, 2017).…”

Anibal Quijano: (Dis)entangling the geopolitics and coloniality of curriculum

“…Liberal curriculum reforms in the 19th century were implemented according to the geopolitical economic reconfiguration of the modern/colonial world, which witnessed the United States as an emerging imperial power in the Western Hemisphere. The liberal education reforms included in the national constitution of 1880 and the Code of Public Instruction of 1882 complemented the liberal economic reforms initiated in 1876 (Fúnez‐Flores, 2020). In addition to opening Honduras to US mining companies, these reforms set the stage for the creation of a geopolitically important neocolonial ‘Banana Republic’ under the control of the United Fruit Company (Chiquita Brands International) and the Standard Fruit Company (Dole Food Company).…”

“…Although there is limited space to discuss how these questions are being explored by sites of struggle, namely student movements in the region (Fúnez‐Flores, 2020, 2021), it is important to note that they are collectively creating educational spaces and politically organising to radically democratise university governance structures and curriculum reform. Their way of organising horizontally through public assemblies, workshops, popular education, social media and WordPress publications gesture towards possible ways to unsettle the university in material and symbolic terms.…”

“…In curriculum studies, the emerging scholarship drawing on decolonial theory usually does not maintain a sustained dialogue with Quijano's extensive work (which begins in the 1960s), with the exception of those who adopt materialist perspectives (e.g. Fúnez‐Flores, 2020, 2022a, 2023; Fúnez‐Flores & Phillion, 2019; Díaz Beltrán, 2018; Jaramillo & McLaren, 2008; Leonardo & Porter, 2010; Paraskeva, 2016a; Rose, 2019; Streck & Adams, 2012). Despite having articulated decolonial theory's primary analytical concept, which has informed the social sciences and humanities for the past three decades, Quijano's work surprisingly remains marginal in the broad field of education and curriculum studies iii .…”

Introduction: Social Struggle in Neoliberal Central America

“…Today’s Central American liberatory movements may not be as well-known or well-understood in the United States as their predecessors four decades ago. However, as is indicated by much of the recent overlapping scholarship dealing with contemporary Central American social struggles (e.g., Almeida, 2014; Ybarra, 2017; Shipley, 2017; Broad and Cavanagh, 2022; Nolin and Russell, 2021; Frank, 2018; Roux and Geglia, 2019; Phillips, 2015; Fúnez-Flores, 2020; Sagot Rodríguez, 2012; Murcia, 2020; Barahona, 2018; Díaz Arias and Viales-Hurtado, 2021; Velásquez Nimatuj, 2005; Burrell and Moodie, 2020; Manz, 2008; Pine, 2013) and analyzing regional and broader processes of human mobility in the neoliberal context (e.g., Chomsky, 2022; Stoll, 2012; McGuirk and Pine, 2020; Walia, Estes, and Kelley, 2021; Miller, 2017; Pérez-Rocha, 2021; Díaz-Barriga and Dorsey, 2020; Dahlstrom, Loor, and Sherman-Stokes, 2019; Holmes, 2013; Mendiola, 2021; Menjívar and Walsh, 2019; Coutin, 2010; Frank-Vitale and Martínez d’Aubuisson, 2020; Hanlon and Nolin, 2021; Burrell and Moodie, 2019; Castillo, 2019; Garibo García and Call, 2020), many of them are arguably operating in even more hostile territory.…”