1. African Cultural Studies Keyan G. Tomaselli & Handel Kashope Wright 2. Africanicity in Bla... more 1. African Cultural Studies Keyan G. Tomaselli & Handel Kashope Wright 2. Africanicity in Black Cinema: A Conjunctural Ground for New Expressions of Identity Boulou Ebanda de B'beri 3. Beyond the Tradition/Modernity Dialectic: African Nationalist Subjectivities in South African Print and Visual Culture of the Early Twentieth Century Lize van Robbroeck 4. The New 'Flaneur': Subaltern Cultural Studies, African Youth in Canada and the Semiology of In-Betweenness Awad Ibrahim 5. Outliving Generations: Youth Traversing Borders Through Popular Music in Everyday Urban Life in East Africa Fibian Kavulani Lukalo 6. 'Surviving the Future': Towards a South African Cultural Studies Natasha Distiller 7. 'Facekuerade': The Transformational Duality in Ebira-Ekuechi Festival Performance Sunday Ododo 8. Europe and African Thought Systems and Philosophies of Education: 'Re-Culturing' the Trans-Temporal Discourses Ali A. Abdi 9. An African Presence in Europe: Portraits of Somali Elders Glenn Jordan
... Western Discourses: Appropriation, Ambivalence, and Alternatives (Handel K. Wright and Ali A.... more ... Western Discourses: Appropriation, Ambivalence, and Alternatives (Handel K. Wright and Ali A. Abdi); (2) Eurocentric Discourses and African Philosophies and Epistemologies of Education: Counter-Hegemonic Analyses and Responses (Ali A. Abdi); (3) Ubuntu ... Abstractor: ERIC. ...
ABSTRACT The first section of this paper (re)examines the utilization of the metaphor of “borders... more ABSTRACT The first section of this paper (re)examines the utilization of the metaphor of “borders” in conceptualising pedagogy as cultural praxis and illustrates that in its present articulation, border politics is based on a narrow conceptualization of borders and is therefore rather inapt and potentially counterproductive. The second section puts forward “the crossroads” as a more flexible and apt metaphor which, employed in what the author is calling crossroads pedagogy, allows not only for the depiction of the complexity of pedagogical encounters involving working with social difference and the possibility of success (as border politics does), but also for the uncanniness, unpredictability and messiness of pedagogy and the possibility of failure.
1. African Cultural Studies Keyan G. Tomaselli & Handel Kashope Wright 2. Africanicity in Bla... more 1. African Cultural Studies Keyan G. Tomaselli & Handel Kashope Wright 2. Africanicity in Black Cinema: A Conjunctural Ground for New Expressions of Identity Boulou Ebanda de B'beri 3. Beyond the Tradition/Modernity Dialectic: African Nationalist Subjectivities in South African Print and Visual Culture of the Early Twentieth Century Lize van Robbroeck 4. The New 'Flaneur': Subaltern Cultural Studies, African Youth in Canada and the Semiology of In-Betweenness Awad Ibrahim 5. Outliving Generations: Youth Traversing Borders Through Popular Music in Everyday Urban Life in East Africa Fibian Kavulani Lukalo 6. 'Surviving the Future': Towards a South African Cultural Studies Natasha Distiller 7. 'Facekuerade': The Transformational Duality in Ebira-Ekuechi Festival Performance Sunday Ododo 8. Europe and African Thought Systems and Philosophies of Education: 'Re-Culturing' the Trans-Temporal Discourses Ali A. Abdi 9. An African Presence in Europe: Portraits of Somali Elders Glenn Jordan
... Western Discourses: Appropriation, Ambivalence, and Alternatives (Handel K. Wright and Ali A.... more ... Western Discourses: Appropriation, Ambivalence, and Alternatives (Handel K. Wright and Ali A. Abdi); (2) Eurocentric Discourses and African Philosophies and Epistemologies of Education: Counter-Hegemonic Analyses and Responses (Ali A. Abdi); (3) Ubuntu ... Abstractor: ERIC. ...
ABSTRACT The first section of this paper (re)examines the utilization of the metaphor of “borders... more ABSTRACT The first section of this paper (re)examines the utilization of the metaphor of “borders” in conceptualising pedagogy as cultural praxis and illustrates that in its present articulation, border politics is based on a narrow conceptualization of borders and is therefore rather inapt and potentially counterproductive. The second section puts forward “the crossroads” as a more flexible and apt metaphor which, employed in what the author is calling crossroads pedagogy, allows not only for the depiction of the complexity of pedagogical encounters involving working with social difference and the possibility of success (as border politics does), but also for the uncanniness, unpredictability and messiness of pedagogy and the possibility of failure.
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007
... from a cultural studies perspective) 1 1Much of this work is documented on the Web site of th... more ... from a cultural studies perspective) 1 1Much of this work is documented on the Web site of the Centre for Culture, Identity, and Education, which Handel Wright directs (http://www.ccie.educ.ubc.ca/). As part of this project, he ...
With the rise of populism in the U.S. and Europe, the time is right for a frank discussion on the... more With the rise of populism in the U.S. and Europe, the time is right for a frank discussion on the realities of racism and critical reflection on white privilege in Canada. Recent events make it clear that it can and does happen here. Join experts from UBC and the University of Alberta for this provocative panel discussion. This event is held in recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in March. http://equity.ubc.ca/2017/02/10/examining-whiteness/
Examining Whiteness: What’s at stake for Canada Monday, March 20, 2017, 6:30-8pm Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre 6163 University Boulevard, Jack Poole Hall, 2nd floor University of British Columbia, Vancouver
This panel addresses the complexities of the Black presence in Canadian academia and academic wor... more This panel addresses the complexities of the Black presence in Canadian academia and academic work. It eschews a monolithic conception of Black scholars and issues they face in the academy; Black Studies and the contributions of both Black Scholars and Black Studies to the social sciences and humanities in Canada. Instead it portrays the complexity and diversity of African Canadian scholars’ identity and identification, Black Studies as strongly disciplinary in some cases and decidedly multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, indeed post-disciplinary in the work of others. The panel brings together four prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines to address various aspects of this topic- the nuances of Black identity and identification; Black Studies, issues faced by Black scholars in the Canadian academy and contributions to addressing equity. Presentations: Afua Cooper: James R. Johnson Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University. "'The Spook Who Sat by the Door': Creating Black Studies at a Canadian University."
Annette Henry: Professor, Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia. “We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups”: Reflections on Race, Gender and Life at three universities”
Tamari Kitossa: Associate Professor of Sociology, Brock University. "The Certainty of Uncertainty: Academia, whiteness and the Invisible Man's Shadow".
Handel Kashope Wright: Professor & Director- Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, University of British Columbia. “The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the Neo-liberal, ‘Non-Racial’ Canadian Academy”
Event Date: May 2014 Organization: Equity Issues Panel: Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Following the very successful inaugural conference on the theme of the work of Paulo Freire, the ... more Following the very successful inaugural conference on the theme of the work of Paulo Freire, the Department of Educational Studies (in collaboration with the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education), University of British Columbia, invites individual paper and full panel proposals for its second Departmental conference on the theme Cultural Studies and Education. In addition to traditional papers and presentations, the conference welcomes proposals for performative cultural studies (music, skits, dance, spoken word, rap, art, multimedia). Both fields that draw on the traditional disciplines in various ways (application of the individual disciplines and interdisciplinary work), cultural studies and education have had a long but mutually ambivalent relationship. What could be described as " the cultural studies turn " in the 1990s marked the taking up of cultural studies as both articulation of and successor regime to a disparate collection of identity based and social justice aimed forms of education (e.g. critical pedagogy, feminist pedagogy, integrative anti-racist, queer, critical multicultural education). While many in both fields saw this as the emergence of cultural studies and/of education, the history of the imbrication of cultural studies and education goes as far back as the 1960s and 1970s work of the apparently not well known successive " Education Groups " of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University, UK, and indeed arguably to the very origins of cultural studies as the extramural (adult education) work of an acknowledged founding father, Raymond Williams. Cultural studies has been rather reticent to acknowledge its education origins, preferring the story of the crises of the humanities and social sciences as its definitive origin. In fact, cultural studies has treated education rather like a dotty old aunt kept hidden in the attic when good, cutting edge theory company like postmodernism, poststructuralism and digital media studies have come calling. In turn some in education, engaged in praxis projects, have been put off by what they perceive as the theoreticism that characterizes much of contemporary cultural studies work. On the other hand, some cultural studies figures (e.g. Larry Grossberg, who in the late 1990s proclaimed education to be " one of the most pressing, promising, and paradoxical sites of
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Examining Whiteness: What’s at stake for Canada
Monday, March 20, 2017, 6:30-8pm
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
6163 University Boulevard, Jack Poole Hall, 2nd floor
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Presentations:
Afua Cooper: James R. Johnson Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University.
"'The Spook Who Sat by the Door': Creating Black Studies at a Canadian University."
Annette Henry: Professor, Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia.
“We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups”: Reflections on Race, Gender and Life at three universities”
Tamari Kitossa: Associate Professor of Sociology, Brock University.
"The Certainty of Uncertainty: Academia, whiteness and the Invisible Man's Shadow".
Handel Kashope Wright: Professor & Director- Centre for Culture, Identity and
Education, University of British Columbia.
“The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the
Neo-liberal, ‘Non-Racial’ Canadian Academy”
Event Date: May 2014
Organization: Equity Issues Panel: Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences