Seeking Anticolonial Synergies

Michalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus and an honorary professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. His research explores the role of emotion and affect in education, particularly as they intersect with issues of social justice, decolonization, and politics.

'Zembylas offers a timely, generous, and carefully argued intervention into the promises and paradoxes of decolonizing higher education. This book invites readers to move beyond oppositional binaries toward more accountable, historically grounded, and politically discerning anticolonial synergies across distinct but entangled struggles for justice.' Vanessa Andreotti, author of Hospicing Modernity and Outgrowing Modernity

• Part I. Seeking Synergies for Decolonial Futures in Higher Education: 1. Rethinking the tension between decolonization and social justice projects; 2. Beyond positionality; 3. Interweaving intersectionality and decoloniality; 4. A Foucauldian–decolonial dialogue; 5. Critical theory meets decolonial thought; Part II. Decolonial Thinkers as Guides for Synergistic Futures: 6. Frantz Fanon and the zone of nonbeing; 7. Amílcar Cabral's synergizing of epistemic, material, and political struggles; 8. Walter Mignolo and the risks of ethno-essentialism; 9. Enrique Dussel's political theology; 10. María Lugones and world-traveling; Epilogue: anticolonial futures in higher education.