/library/oar/handle/123456789/19317 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:39:05 GMT 2025-12-26T18:39:05Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/19604 Title: Editorial : furthering the discourse in postcolonial education Editors: Mayo, Peter; Hickling Hudson, Anne Abstract: Over the years we have been witnessing a proliferation of literature dealing with ‘postcolonialism’. This term is being applied to the situation in which many countries, regions and social groups find themselves in the aftermath of the formal ending of colonialism. This is a chronological use of ‘post’ colonialism, but postcolonial theory also draws attention to a usage that is conceptual and philosophical. All these usages of the term have gained currency in research in education. In this editorial the editors give a brief introduction on Postcolonial Directions in Education, a journal that they hope will, through its open access format, attract large readership from both the global North and South. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/19604 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/19585 Title: Reframing anti-colonial theory for the diasporic context Authors: Simmons, Marlon; Sefa Dei, George J. Abstract: In teaching and dialoguing with students and colleagues we have on a number of occasions had to grapple with questions such as: What is the ‘anti-colonial’? How is this different from a ‘post-colonial’ approach? And how are we to articulate an anti-colonial prism as a way of thinking and making sense of current colonial relations and procedures of colonization? These are tough questions complicated by the apparent mainstream privileging and intellectual affection for the “post-colonial” over “anti-colonial”. This paper is purposively written to provoke a debate as a contestation of ideas of the current ‘post’ context. We are calling for a nuanced reading of what constitutes an intellectual subversive politics in the ongoing project of decolonization for both colonized and dominant bodies. We ask our readers to consider the possibilities of a counter theoretical narrative or conception of the present in ways that make theoretical sense of the everyday world of the colonized, racialized, oppressed and the Indigene. We bring a politicized reading to the present as a moment of practice, to claim and reclaim our understandings of identity in the present with implications for how we theorise a Diasporic identity. We challenge the intellectual seduction to equally flatten notions of identity and relations as simply fluid, in flux or something to be complicated/contested. We believe there is something that must not be lost in reclaiming past powerful notions regarding particularly the marginalized understandings of their identities for the present. Thus we revive anti-colonial discourse, building on early anticolonial thinking and practice. We are bringing a particular reading of the ‘colonial’ that is relevant to the present in which both nations, states and communities, as well as bodies and identities are engaged as still colonized and resisting the colonial encounter. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/19585 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/19584 Title: [Book review] Sethi, R, The politics of postcolonialism : empire, nation and resistance Authors: Chana, Tejwant Abstract: Tejwant Chana reviews "The politics of postcolonialism : empire, nation and resistance" by Rumina Sethi, whose book critically unpacks the relationship between postcolonialism, nationalism and neoliberal globalization by confronting the new imperialism of the United States and its hegemonic institutionalization of postcolonial studies in academia. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/19584 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/19583 Title: AERA postcolonial studies and education SIG Authors: Zanoni, Joseph Abstract: This is a brief overview of the proceedings of AERA Postcolonial Studies and Education SIG which took place on Sunday, April 15 2012 at the Vancouver Convention Center with 20 members and guests participating. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/19583 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z