Book chapter
Towards decolonisation and transformation in universities: Foregrounding Indigenous and transcultural knowledge systems and communities
Transformation of the University: Hopeful Futures for Higher Education, pp.92-107
Routledge
2022
Abstract
Many universities globally are presently focused on neoliberal competition, commodification, consumerism and corporatisation (Manathunga and Bottrell, 2019). Such processes have devalued knowledge to a transactional exchange and substituted instruction for collegiality, weakening the ‘public good’ aspect of universities. This commercialisation impoverishes a university's original commitment to knowledge creation (Rolfe, 2013). It also diminishes the work in universities towards social justice, equity, and social and cultural inclusion, witnessed in the gradual opening of higher education to women, working-class, migrant, refugee and Indigenous 1 peoples (Stengers, Despret and Collective, 2014).
Details
- Title
- Towards decolonisation and transformation in universities: Foregrounding Indigenous and transcultural knowledge systems and communities
- Authors
- Catherine Manathunga (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre - LegacyJennifer Carter Professor of Geography (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyMaria Raciti (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre - Legacy
- Contributors
- Søren S E Bengtsen (Editor) - Aarhus UniversityRyan Evely Gildersleeve (Editor) - University of Denver
- Publication details
- Transformation of the University: Hopeful Futures for Higher Education, pp.92-107
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003102922-9; 10.4324/9781003102922
- ISBN
- 9781003102922
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Centre; School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99621538802621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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