Anti-Colonial Orientations to Place: Unsettling Encounters with South African Educational Landscapes. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Murris, Karin; Francis, Sieraaj; Babamia, Sumaya; Nxumalo, Fikile; Bozalek, Vivienne; Giorza, Theresa
• Is Part Of: Equity & excellence in education. Volume 53:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 288
• Page End: 303
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Educational equalization -- United States -- Periodicals; Segregation in education -- United States -- Periodicals; 379.260973
• DOI: 10.1080/10665684.2020.1785975
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1066-5684

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The authors bring together decolonial, place attuned, and critical posthumanist orientations to analyze an event during a residential workshop organized as part of a state-funded research project on decolonizing early childhood discourses in South Africa. An invitation during the workshop to grapple with what might be unsettling by attending to the agency of the more-than-human world and its entanglement with unequal human geographies of place, generated a diffractive photographic image and unsettling stories as a group of early childhood teachers and educational researchers kept re-turning to the data. Working with Barad's methodology of temporal diffraction as apparatus, we discursively and visually trace entanglements that emerged from this data. We conclude on the mattering of this work for engaging with the potentials and tensions of attending to the more-than-human within highly asymmetrical human relations in the settler colonial context of South African education.