Learning Disobedience

Name: Learning Disobedience
Brand: Unknown
SKU: 9780745347141
Price: 54.99 NZD
Availability: InStock

Decolonizing Development Studies

By Amber Murrey and Patricia Daley

0.0 (0 reviews)

Summary

Learning Disobedience explores the concept of 'disobedient pedagogies' within the context of empire and colonial legacies. Authors Amber Murrey and Patricia Daley critically examine how educators, activists, and students are fostering anti-racist and decolonial practices to challenge and transform development studies, particularly focusing on African geographies. The book interrogates prevailing international development paradigms, questioning whose knowledge shapes them, and advocates for radical change through collaborative classroom and activist efforts.
Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

$54⁹⁹

AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks

Found a better price? Request a price match

Learning Disobedience

$54⁹⁹

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This book is suited for educators, students, activists, and scholars interested in decolonial theory, anti-racist education, and development studies, especially those focused on rethinking and reshaping international development from an African perspective.

A new addition to the growing body of work on radical pedagogies, decolonial options and decolonising the university

Description

This is a book about teaching disobedient pedagogies from the heart of empire. The authors show how educators, activists, and students are cultivating anti-racist, decolonial practices. They lead with a radical call to eradicate development studies, counterbalancing this with new projects to decolonise development, particularly in African geographies.

Being intentionally disobedient in the classroom is central to decolonising development studies. The authors ask: What does it mean to study international development today? Whose knowledge and perspectives inform international development policy and programming?

Building on the works of other decolonial trailblazers, the authors demonstrate how colonial legacies continue to shape the ways in which land, wellbeing, progress, and development are conceived and practised. How do we, through our classroom and activist practices, work collaboratively to create the radical imaginaries and practical scaffolding necessary for decolonising development?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780745347141

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 August 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pluto Press

Illustration: 3 Figures

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

Collections

Amber Murrey Education & Reference Non-Fiction Patricia Daley Science & Nature

About the Author

Amber Murrey is an Associate Professor of Political Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. Her award-winning scholarship on political ecologies and economies in Central Africa focuses on dissent and resistance amidst racialised extractive violence. Amber is the editor of 'A Certain Amount of Madness': The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara and Associate Editor of The African Geographical Review. Patricia Daley is Professor of the Human Geography of Africa and The Helen Morag Fellow in Geography at Jesus College, Oxford. She co-edited, with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, The Routledge Handbook on South-South Relations.