Higher Education Hauntologies

Vivienne Bozalek is Emerita Professor at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape and Honorary Professor at the Centre for Higher Education, Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) Rhodes University, South Africa.Michalinos Zembylas is a Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus and Honorary Professor, Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.Siddique Motala is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Dorothee Hölscher is a Lecturer in the School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, and a research associate with the Department of Social Work, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

"This stirring collection of essays is uncannily brilliant at bringing all manner of specters into the light. Entangled with more-than-human histories, matter, and atmospheres, these authors reveal the ways that higher education can hold us accountable for the ongoing unfolding of futures less ghastly than our present and its pasts."Dr. Gregory J. Seigworth, editor of Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry and co-editor of the Affect Theory Reader (2010, Duke University Press)"Higher Education Hauntologies is a very timely volume, forcefully posing very urgent questions about new pedagogies for justice-to-come. How to meet the spectres of social inequalities, injustice, violence, colonial appropriation which haunt higher education worldwide? The contributors’ shared inspiration from new materialism and posthumanist thought, and their diverse geopolitical locations make the book a uniquely new and very refreshing contribution to the discussion about much needed transformations of higher education."Nina Lykke, Prof. Em., Dr. Phil., Linköping University, Sweden

• IntroductionVivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas, Siddique Motala and Dorothee Hölscher1 A Pedagogy of Hauntology: Decolonizing the Curriculum with GISMichalinos Zembylas, Vivienne Bozalek and Siddique Motala 2 Just(ice) Do It! Re-membering the past through co-affective aesthetic encounters with art/historyNike Romano3 Shooting the elephant in the (prayer) room: Politics of moods, racial hauntologies and idiomatic diffractionKirsten Hvenegård-Lassen & Dorthe Staunæs 4 A specter is haunting European higher education – the specter of neo-nationalismKatja Brøgger5 Sea hauntings and haunted seas for embodied place-space-mattering for social justice scholarshipTamara Shefer 6 Reconciliation and Education: Artistic Actions and Critical ConversationsStephanie Springgay7 Self as Ghost: Haunting whiteness in Lizza Littlewort’s paintingLize van Robbroeck8 A Posthuman Hauntology for the Anthropocene: The Spectral and Higher Education Delphi Carstens9 Pedagogy of hauntology in language education: Re-signifying the Argentine dictatorship in higher educationMelina Porto10 Being Haunted by—and Reorienting toward—What ‘Matters’ in Times of (the COVID-19) Crisis: A Critical Pedagogical Cartography of Response-abilityEvelien Geerts11 Higher education hauntologies and spacetimemattering: Response-ability and non-innocence in times of pandemicVivienne Bozalek and Dorothee Hölscher