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Social geography I: Anti‐racism, implacable whiteness and decolonizing Anglo‐American geography

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Transnational events including worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, #Rhodes Must Fall and university encampments across Europe and the US in resistance to Israel’s occupation and bombing of Gaza have provided momentum for a decolonial ‘turn’ throughout the education sector. By exploring the emergence of anti-racist decolonial themes in Anglo-American geography I argue that the whiteness of the discipline, its roots in colonial modernity, as well as the neoliberal production of whiteness in Higher Education stymies decolonizing agendas. Nevertheless, I further demonstrate how anti-racist decolonial perspectives are being reconfigured by geographers with the potential to rethink geographical theory, pedagogy and practice.

Source: Progress in Human Geography

DOI: 10.1177/03091325241296067

Author: Anoop Nayak

Institution: Newcastle University

Language: English

Topic: Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,700