Decolonizing the University: Practicing Pluriversity

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This Winter 2012 (X, 1) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge entitled “Decolonizing the University: Practicing Pluriversity” includes papers that were presented at the international conference entitled “Quelles universités et quels universalismes demain en Europe? un dialogue avec les Amériques (Which University and Universalism for Europe Tomorrow? A Dialogue with the Americas)” organized by the guest editors of the volume in association with the Institute des Hautes d’Etudes de l’Amerique Latine (IHEAL) and the support of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise and the Maison des Science de l’Homme (MSH) in Paris on June 10-11, 2010. The aim of the conference was to think about what it could mean to decolonize the Westernized university and its Eurocentric knowledge structures. The contributions to this volume are, in one way or another, decolonial interventions in the rethinking and decolonization of academic knowledge production and Western university structures.

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Decolonizing the University: Practicing Pluriversity

Proceedings of the International Conference on “Quelles universités et quels universalismes demain en Europe? un dialogue avec les Amériques” (“Which University and Universalism for Europe Tomorrow? A Dialogue with the Americas”) Organized by the Institute des Hautes d’Etudes de l’Amerique Latine (IHEAL) with the support of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise and the Maison des Science de l’Homme (MSH), Paris, June 10-11, 2010


HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge

Volume X • Issue 1 • Winter 2012


Journal Editor:
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, UMass Boston

Issue Co-Editors:

  • Capucine Boidin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France
  • James Cohen, Université de Paris VIII, France
  • Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California at Berkeley

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This Winter 2012 (X, 1) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge entitled “Decolonizing the University: Practicing Pluriversity” includes papers that were presented at the international conference entitled “Quelles universités et quels universalismes demain en Europe? un dialogue avec les Amériques (Which University and Universalism for Europe Tomorrow? A Dialogue with the Americas)” organized by the guest editors of the volume in association with the Institute des Hautes d’Etudes de l’Amerique Latine (IHEAL) and the support of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise and the Maison des Science de l’Homme (MSH) in Paris on June 10-11, 2010. The aim of the conference was to think about what it could mean to decolonize the Westernized university and its Eurocentric knowledge structures. The contributions to this volume are, in one way or another, decolonial interventions in the rethinking and decolonization of academic knowledge production and Western university structures. Contributors include: Capucine Boidin (also as journal issue guest editor), James Cohen (also as journal issue guest editor), Ramón Grosfoguel (also as journal issue guest editor), Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Manuela Boatcã, Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Kwame Nimako, Sandew Hira, Stephen Small, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Anders Burman, Maria Paula Meneses, and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi (also as journal editor-in-chief). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal’s Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR’s homepage.

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Contents

vii—Editor’s Note: To Be of But Not in the University
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, University of Massachusetts Boston

1—Introduction: From University to Pluriversity: A Decolonial Approach to the Present Crisis of Western Universities
Issue Co-Editors: Capucine Boidin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France
James Cohen, Université de Paris VIII, France
and Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California at Berkeley

7—The University at A Crossroads
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

17—Catching Up with the (New) West: The German “Excellence Initiative,” Area Studies, and the Re-Production of Inequality
Manuela Boatcã, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

31—‘Epistemic Coyotismo’ and Transnational Collaboration: Decolonizing the Danish University
Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Roskilde University, Denmark

45—About Them, But Without Them: Race and Ethnic Relations Studies in Dutch Universities
Kwame Nimako, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

53—Decolonizing the Mind: The Case of the Netherlands
Sandew Hira, International Institute of Scientific Research, the Netherlands

69—Slavery, Colonialism and their Legacy in the Eurocentric University: The Case of Britain and the Netherlands
Stephen Small, University of California at Berkeley

81—The Dilemmas of Ethnic Studies in the United States: Between Liberal Multiculturalism, Identity Politics, Disciplinary Colonization, and Decolonial Epistemologies
Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California at Berkeley

91—The Crisis of the University in the Context of Neoapartheid: A View from Ethnic Studies
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University

101—Places To Think With, Books To Think About: Words, Experience and the Decolonization of Knowledge in the Bolivian Andes
Anders Burman, University of California at Berkeley

121—Images Outside the Mirror?: Mozambique and Portugal in World History
Maria Paula Meneses , Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal


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