Volume 67, Issue 1, Winter 2023
Violent Democracies
Sabeen Ahmed
, Adam Burgos
, George Fourlas, John Harfouch
Pages 207-222
Power in/and the University
A Roundtable Discussion on Anti-Colonial Praxis in Academia
The following conversation examines the role of the university in our present moment and examines the necessity of anti-colonial praxis in the academy. The dialogue takes as its starting point the long history of white, heteropatriarchal capitalist supremacy that has oriented the institutional production of knowledge and considers its present permutations in such practices as diversity initiatives in teaching and hiring. The discussants in turn reflect on their own approaches and strategies for enacting liberatory pedagogy in light of the contingent, historical, and material limitations of higher education today.