This paper reveals the journey of two settler-researcher-educators supporting learning in preparation for Carey Newman's Witness Blanket Art Exhibit. Invited to create curriculum for students and educators of K-12 who would visit the exhibit, the authors describe co-curricular making as a living, re-generative, re-cursive experience. The learning…

This essay uses Paulo Freire as inspiration of thinking about the limits and possibilities of building bridges between elite universities in the Global North and communities around the world given the historic and present-day entanglements between these universities and empire, colonisation, and epistemic violence. It sheds lights on how…

Within the spirit of conspiration, this article brings together contributions from participants of the PhD-led UCL Reading and React Group 'Colonialism(s), Neoliberalism(s) and Language Teaching and Learning', which ran in 2019/20. Weaving together various perspectives, the article centres on the dialogic nature of the decolonial enterprise and…

V.S. Naipaul's essay on Grenada in "Harper's" magazine (March 1984) has a lot of nice words but reflects little of the reality of the Grenada debacle. Naipaul favors the colonialist sensibility and is insensitive to the Grenadian socialists. (Author/KH)

Suggests that certain features of race as defined in the work of Gustave Le Bon and Leopold de Saussure (on the psychology of French colonization) may survive in Ferdinand de Saussure's concept of "langue," adapted and transformed by Saussure's more modernist concept of history. (Author/VWL)

The situation of West Indian immigrants in Britain, their cultural legacy of slavery and colonialism, emigration and immigration, the human ecological context of their settlement and cultural redevelopment experience, and some conflicting views on their educational experience in Britain and solutions to observable problems are discussed. (MSE)

Traces the history of the changes in the Indian educational system during consolidation of British rule in the nineteenth century in relation to changes in the larger social system. Considers forces that work both in support of and in resistance to changes in a colonial context. (CMG)

This report on the current condition of the Mapuche Indians of Chile is edited from a document on the "Situation of Human Rights in Chile" and details the repressive and inhumane treatment of the largest indigenous ethnic minority in the country. (Author/RTS)

Investigates the legacy, logic, and consequences of the appellation "the new world of cyberspace" that connects cyberspace to the Columbian voyages of discovery and the larger network of European expansionism. Engages in a critical investigation of the colonial logic implied by this seemingly innocent taxonomy, and examines its…

Responds to an earlier article that critiqued a book written by the author of this article on linguistic diversity in the Pacific.(Author/VWL)

This history of the ethnic classification used in various Central American countries provides conceptual and historical background for understanding current systems of classification. It includes tables showing the ethnic composition of Central America during the colonial regime. (JDH)

The notion of alienation as presented in the writings of Frantz Fanon needs a theoretical analysis which considers its economic, racial and political aspects. Marx wrote on alienation in a similar way portraying it as a self-fulfilling prophecy which is fraught with violence and dehumanization. (VM)

This critical study of West Indian novelist George Lamming's work finds a preoccupation in his earlier works with British colonizers' betrayal of the West Indian people and its appearance as a father-son relationship. Lamming's latest work creates a less limited West Indian identity in the context of pre-colonial cultural history. (DMM)

This book seeks to bring to the field of education the critical momentum of interdisciplinary theories and postcolonial art and aesthetics. The book explains that postcolonial art means artistic work engaged in the radical reassessment of center-periphery relations, produced in the crucible of colonization and its aftermath of independence and…

The Caribbean and other parts of the Third World have been preoccupied with becoming nations, in the accepted international sense. Education has been the prime vehicle through which ideologies such as capitalism, Marxism, colonialism, and nationalism have been promulgated. (SK)