Two new publications on
Southern theory themes:
Takayama, Keita, Arathi Sriprakash and Raewyn Connell. 2016. Toward a
postcolonial comparative and international education. Comparative Education Review, vol. 61 no. S2, published online 27
December 2016, OPEN ACCESS at: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cer/0/0
This is how it begins:
A moment of deep reflection. We have put together this special issue to initiate dialogue
about the active colonial legacies within the field of Comparative and
International Education (CIE), and to show ways of working beyond them. Readers
might wonder how CIE, which celebrates and tries to understand the diversity of
education around the world, can continue to be influenced by colonial histories
and Eurocentrism. In this extended introduction, we explain why coloniality
remains a significant challenge to the field and how articles in this
collection engage with this challenge. We hope readers will join us in a major
rethinking of the norms and knowledge about difference, comparison and research
that have been inherited from the field’s history.
Connell, Raewyn, Fran
Collyer, João Maia and Robert Morrell.
2016. Toward a global sociology of knowledge: post-colonial realities
and intellectual practices. International
Sociology, published OPEN ACCESS November 2016, DOI:
10.1177/0268580916676913, at: http://iss.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/11/15/0268580916676913.full.pdf+html
Here’s the abstract:
This article discusses changing social perspectives on
knowledge, from the old sociology of knowledge to current post-colonial
debates. The authors propose an approach that sees knowledge not as an abstract
social construction but as the product of specific forms of social labour,
showing the ontoformativity of social practice that creates reality through
historical time. Research in three southern-tier countries examines knowledge
workers and their labour process, knowledge institutions including workplaces
and communication systems, economic strategies and the resourcing of knowledge
work and workforces. This research shows in detail the contested hegemony of
the global metropole in domains of knowledge. It reveals forms of negotiation
that reshape knowledge production, and shows the importance for knowledge workers
of the dynamics of global change.
