Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education

Petra Mikulan is Sessional Lecturer of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.

This volume argues that refusal is a viable political ethics in education. It is an ethics that allows space for new possibilities to emerge, with the potential enrich higher education study and pedagogies in the future.

Series Editors' Introduction. Introduction: Refusing the Colonial University. Part 1. Refusing Coloniality of Life-and-Death in Higher Education. 1. Conditions of Arrival: On Refusing to Be Included. 2. The Affective Dimensions of Refusal in Higher Education Decolonization: Pedagogical Implications. 3. Populating the Savage Slot: Decolonizing Autoethnographic Refusals in Higher Education. 4. Refusing Higher Education: Vivacide and the Economies of Dissipation. Part 2. Antiracist Refusal and Political Pedagogical Action. 5. Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Australian Colonial logic of the Centre and Aboriginal Refusal. 6. Anger's erotic politics: Antiracist refusal as decolonial political action. 7. (Re)imagining HESA through Refusal; The Complexities of Confronting Colonialism the University. 8. Plastic Refusals; The Africanisation Challenge of South African Higher Education. Part 3. (Po)ethical Praxis of Refusal. 9. Refusing Archives of Possibility; A Decolonial Praxis of Temporalizing Ethics. 10. Refusing coloniality; An ethical praxis of paying attention to words in academic writing. 11. Slow reading as refusal; Doing higher education differently. Afterword: begin with a refusal.