Indigeneity and Decolonial Resistance

To be able to promote effective anti-colonial and decolonial education, it is imperative that educators employ indigenous epistemologies that seek to threaten, replace and reimagine colonial thinking and practice. Indigeneity and Decolonial Resistance hopes to contribute to the search for a more radical decolonial education and practice that allows for the coexistence of, and conversation among, “multiple-epistemes.” The book approaches the topics from three perspectives:

• the thought that our epistemological frameworks must consider the body of the knowledge producer, place, history, politics and contexts within which knowledge is produced,
• that the anti-colonial is intimately connected to decolonization, and by extension, decolonization cannot happen solely through Western science scholarship, and
• that the complex problems and challenges facing the world today defy universalist solutions, but can still be remedied.

Indigeneity and Decolonial Resistance is an excellent text for use in a variety of upper-division undergraduate and graduate classrooms. It is also a valuable addition to the libraries of writers and researchers interested in indigenous studies and decolonialism.

“In this text, indigeneity as a political concept challenges Western hegemonic educational practice. The decolonization of education, in terms of curriculum content, pedagogy, and resistance, constitutes the major theme. The commodification of seeds, land, and indigenous knowledge, and the "povertization" of Africa through self-serving development officials, planners, and researchers, are of prime concern to the 12 contributing authors. Corporations such as Monsanto are implicated not only in the recolonizing process but also in the entrenchment of poverty, the systematic exclusion of indigenous peoples, and in the planning and execution of programs, ostensibly for their benefit. The contributors argue that new directions in "decolonial resistance" also necessitate ... (read the full review in CHOICE , April 2019, Vol. 56, No. 8)”

"Challenging the tropes of dominant sociopolitical theory, Indigeneity and Decolonial Resistance is a bold, brazen and uncompromising collection of essays that stands at the cutting edge of decolonial studies."
"Boldly unmasking and challenging the colonial logic that underpins homogenizing classroom instruction across the disciplines and affirming the anti-colonial theoretical foundations of epistemic resistance rooted in indigenous spirituality, ways of knowing and being, this visionary collection offers vital conceptual tools and pedagogical possibilities that are bound to advance the global struggle for humanizing knowledge production and anti-racist education practice."--Joyce E. King, PhD, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning & Leadership, Georgia State University, USA

Ghanaian-born George J. Sefa Dei is Professor of Social Justice Education and Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). He has written extensively on anti-racism education, minority youth and schooling, Indigenous knowledge, Blackness and Black Indigeneity. Cristina Jaimungal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Anchored in anti-colonial research methods, anti-racism studies, and critical language theory, her research interests examine the racial politics embedded in the project of English-language education. Jaimungal holds a B.A. with honors in English and Professional Writing (York University) and an M.A. in Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning, with a specialization in Comparative, International, and Development Education (University of Toronto)

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