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Decolonizing the university: New directions
Abstract
What are the limits placed on the ‘decolonization’ project by the forces of neoliberalism? How are the latter affecting the future of the university? Is ‘decolonization’ the same as ‘Africanization’?
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Modern higher education institutions are complicit in reproducing colonial frames of knowledge and ethics.
“Given the complicity of modern higher education institutions in reproducing colonial frames of knowledge and ethics (Mbembe 2016; Mamdani 2019)”
From A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism (2023) · cites this paper as Mbembe 2016
Decolonial critiques in higher education highlight the importance of resisting colonizing moves driven by dominant European epistemological, ontological and ethical investments in universality, supremacy and mastery, while occluding global capitalism, neoliberalism, and the marketization of education that have made modern universities colonial institutions.
“Decolonial critiques in higher education (e.g., Jansen 2019; Mamdani 2019; Mbembe 2016; Stein 2019a, 2019b; Stein and Andreotti 2017; Stein et al. 2021) highlight the importance of resisting colonizing moves that are driven by dominant European epistemological, ontological and ethical investments in universality, supremacy and mastery, while occluding the intensities of global capitalism, neoliber”
From A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism (2023) · cites this paper as Mbembe 2016
Universities reproduce ideals of Eurocentric epistemologies and function in neo-colonial ways.
“Literature on decolonizing higher education (e.g., Jansen 2019; Mamdani 2019; Mbembe 2016; Stein 2019a, 2019b; Stein and Andreotti 2017) over the last few years has begun to identify some of the mechanisms through which universities reproduce ideals of Eurocentric epistemologies and function in neo-colonial ways.”
From A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism (2023) · cites this paper as Mbembe 2016
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Metadata
- Authors
- Joseph Mbembe, A.
- Affiliations
- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
- Venue
- Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-01-19
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 29-45
- ISSN
- 1474-0222 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-265X
- OpenAlex
- W2256002839
- Cited by
- 1,256
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 188 · 2025: 171 · 2024: 143 · 2023: 169 · 2022: 144 · 2021: 140 · 2020: 140 · 2019: 85 · 2018: 49 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 6
- FWCI
- 236.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › African cultural and philosophical studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Education › University Challenges and Reforms
- Keywords
- neoliberalism, future of universities, Africanization, higher education, decoloniality
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