Towards a Postcolonial Politics of Appearance: Unsettling Lifelong Learning as a Racial Contract

Autor/in	Shan, Hongxia
Titel	Towards a Postcolonial Politics of Appearance: Unsettling Lifelong Learning as a Racial Contract
Quelle	In: International Journal of Lifelong Education, 38 (2019) 1, S.34-47 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-1370
DOI	10.1080/02601370.2018.1518348
Schlagwörter	Lifelong Learning; Immigrants; Experience; Transformative Learning; Racial Bias; Credentials + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Erfahrung; Pädagogische Transformation; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Studienbuch
Abstract	In the context of flexible capitalism, lifelong learning has been posed as a pathway for individuals to accumulate skills and actualise potentials. What is overlooked, however, is that the process of accumulation and actualisation is embedded within the culture of recognition. People who are historically constructed as "the anthropos," a legacy of the colonial history struggle to appear as equals vis-à-vis the gaze of "the humantias." With this critique in view, I reviewed the field of immigrant and lifelong learning in relation to a postcolonial politics of appearance. I sought to understand how lifelong learning settles itself in immigrant consciousness, and how it shapes immigrant experiences in the West. My review points to three metaphors that speak of the challenges and possibilities for immigrants to appear: fixation of the Eurocentric gaze, re-credentialing as precarious investment, and lifelong learning as trans/formation. Together, these metaphors suggest that lifelong learning has conjured a racial contract, which ironically binds immigrants to the labour of learning and yet continuously suppresses their appearance. To unsettle this racial contract, borders need to be reimagined and crossed/vexed by recentring immigrants as knowing subjects. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01