Book chapter
Choosing Marginality: Seeing Beauty in Defiant and Antiracist Scholarship
Handbook of Critical Whiteness: Deconstructing Dominant Discourses Across Disciplines, pp.1-13
Springer Singapore
2023
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Abstract
There is no paucity of literature on academia as a site of resistance. Universities can also be sites of transformation/reclamation while raising questions of epistemic Coloniality, racism, racialization, and Whiteness in academia. In this chapter, we highlight and discuss aspects of the challenges of this erasure while sharing some thoughts on how the emerging theory of racial dignity offers the possibilities of addressing the visible and invisible impacts of Coloniality and seeing the beauty and joy of engaging in the resistance of decolonial antiracist scholarship. As articulated in this chapter, our resistance espouses our intentional collaboration, which cushions against negative outcomes associated with the solitude of solitary, neoliberal workplaces. In imagining an antiracist future in Australian higher education institutions, we call for greater equality and a more sustained effort to decolonize Australian higher education institutions of their colonial legacy. We recognize the need for Australian higher education institutions to turbocharge their obligation as transformatory institutions that prioritize humanity and the ontological legitimacy and epistemic contributions of racially and culturally marginalized (RACM) academics.
Details
- Title
- Choosing Marginality: Seeing Beauty in Defiant and Antiracist Scholarship
- Creators
- Kathomi Gatwiri (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityHyacinth Udah (Author) - James Cook UniversityMujib Abid (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Jioji Ravulo (Editor) - University of SydneyKatarzyna Olcoń (Editor) - University of WollongongTinashe Dune (Editor) - Western Sydney UniversityPranee Liamputtong (Editor) - Western Sydney University
- Publication Details
- Handbook of Critical Whiteness: Deconstructing Dominant Discourses Across Disciplines, pp.1-13
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Identifiers
- 991013137613802368
- Copyright
- © 2023 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- Academic Unit
- Social Work; Centre for Children and Young People; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter