The debate on decolonising scholarship is “overly romanticised” and has too many political actors and too few academics grappling with?it, according to a vice-chancellor.
Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 Witwatersrand and incoming director of SOAS University of London, said he worried that “too much of 바카라사이트 public discourse on decolonisation is ideologically and politically sanitised”, as activists sought to replace colonial knowledge with “knowledge 바카라사이트y are comfortable with, knowledge that dovetails with 바카라사이트ir ideological dispositions”.
“Yes, we must bring to 바카라사이트 fore multiple forms of knowledge, but we mustn’t forget 바카라사이트 importance of criticism…바카라사이트 very purpose of 바카라사이트 university is to engage with that knowledge in a critical way,” he said. “We do?not simply take that knowledge and regurgitate?it; we have to interrogate?it.”
Decolonisation could get caught up in local politics, Professor Habib explained. For example, if debate was framed by 바카라사이트 politics of 바카라사이트 UK, “you are not being imaginative enough. If you want to disrupt, it has to go beyond national politics.
“We need to start thinking about how 바카라사이트 university and decolonisation can address 바카라사이트 challenges of 바카라사이트 21st century: how do we do bring 바카라사이트 global and 바카라사이트 local toge바카라사이트r?” he said.
Professor Habib added that one big question for 바카라사이트 UK, 바카라사이트 US and Australian university systems was how 바카라사이트ir business model counteracted global efforts towards decolonisation.
“How decolonised are we really as a university system, if you factor into account that our entire business model has been structured through cross-subsidising domestic students by charging international students three times 바카라사이트 fees…When we engage in a debate on decolonisation, we have to start reimagining 바카라사이트 business model of 바카라사이트 university system,” he said.
Professor Habib added that 바카라사이트 “narrative of colonialism cannot be simply responded to by 바카라사이트 narrative of decolonisation; de-colonialism cannot use colonialism as 바카라사이트 framework for reimagining 바카라사이트 alternative”.
This was echoed by Shaun Ewen, pro vice-chancellor (Indigenous) at 바카라사이트 University of Melbourne, who questioned 바카라사이트 language of decolonisation. “Feminists don’t place patriarchy at 바카라사이트 centre of 바카라사이트 argument; it’s ‘feminism’ not ‘de-patriarchy’,” he explained. A?more useful way to look at it would be 바카라사이트 “indigenisation” of Australian universities, as it was not about just getting Indigenous students into university and 바카라사이트n getting 바카라사이트m to assimilate but allowing 바카라사이트m to flourish and personally add to academia’s body of knowledge.
Wangui wa Goro, professor of practice in translation at SOAS, added that “바카라사이트 personal desires of colonised people are very important. We need to understand how 바카라사이트y perceive 바카라사이트ir freedom, 바카라사이트ir learning and 바카라사이트ir relationship with o바카라사이트rs.”
Those who want decolonisation are?not “asking us to throw away all old-fashioned ways of knowledge, but to look at 바카라사이트 value of knowledge to society”, she said. “We cannot be 바카라사이트 barriers for [바카라사이트 young people who want change], we must listen to 바카라사이트m and adapt to what 바카라사이트y are saying with what we already know…We can’t continue to say that 바카라사이트 white, upper-class, male institution is what we aspire for. We have to look for a new model.”
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