The possibilities of postcolonial praxis in education

Race moves: following global manifestations of new racisms in intimate space

“…Postcolonial analyses of the histories and dynamics of relation that constitute a single local community can give one insight into the ground-level operation of racism as it affectively moves across global-local space. Postcolonial educational scholars argue that local and specific narratives of racism and race conflict operate within historical, material and global contexts of universality and particularity that require meticulous excavation (Coloma 2009;Subedi and Daza 2008;Rhee 2008). In the sections to follow, I use the Canadian multicultural scene as a context with which to follow the local movement of race.…”

(Re)creating spaces foruMunthu: postcolonial theory and environmental education in southern Africa

“…According to Lunga (2008), postcolonial theory has an aversion to stable identities, origins, absolutes and either-or paradigms: instead, power, resistance and identities are conceptualized as contingent, unstable, contradictory and/or always in process. Postcolonialism calls for the unlearning of white privilege and deficit thinking in both national and global contexts (Lavia 2007;Leonardo 2005;Subedi and Daza 2008;Taylor, Gilborn, and Ladson-Billings 2009).…”

Nomadic Research Practices in Early Childhood: Interrupting Racisms and Colonialisms

“…How might we reconsider the workings of neocolonialisms and racialization through everyday food-eating practices (Slocum, 2011)? How are the sociomaterial aspects of race mobilized in these encounters connected to systemic racisms and colonialisms (Jiwani, 2006;Subedi & Daza, 2008, Swadener & Mutua, 2008? How do these fragments perpetuate or disrupt forces of racism and colonialism?…”