Journal article
Missing Bodies: Troubling the Colonial Landscape of American Academia
Text and performance quarterly, Vol.31(3), pp.229-248
07/01/2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/110755
Abstract
Subjugated bodies continue to be missing from classrooms, faculty meetings, and educational structures everywhere. Where are the excluded bodies? Where is the untheorized visceral experience of everyday discrimination? Possibilities of inclusiveness must be viscerally felt, not simply disembodiedly spoken. Merely claiming to be a progressive teacher-writer isn't enough to achieve a decolonizing praxis. This claim needs to come from an embodied performance in the classroom, a place where teachers and students alike can perform the scars of oppression on their bodies. Teacher and student bodies, in-between the colonial and postcolonial experience, can then become more present in teaching and praxis.
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- Title
- Missing Bodies: Troubling the Colonial Landscape of American Academia
- Creators
- Claudio MoreiraMarcelo Diversi
- Publication Details
- Text and performance quarterly, Vol.31(3), pp.229-248
- Academic Unit
- Human Development, Department of
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 99900547270001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article