An Ethics of Refusal: The Insistence of Possibles as a Speculative Pragmatic Challenge to Systemic Racism in Education

Autor/in	Mikulan, Petra
Titel	An Ethics of Refusal: The Insistence of Possibles as a Speculative Pragmatic Challenge to Systemic Racism in Education
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 72 (2022) 4, S.529-548 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/edth.12545
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Higher Education; Politics of Education; Colonialism; Trust (Psychology); Social Justice; Futures (of Society) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Kolonialismus; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Future; Society; Zukunft
Abstract	To address an ethics of refusal in higher education is to wager in the name of future possibles not already governed by the extractive politics of colonial progress and oppressive regimes of knowing and doing. In this essay, Petra Mikulan shows American pragmatism to have always been, in a certain sense, post-Anthropocene in its condition of emergence, bound up with settler colonialism and its extractive geopolitics. However, pragmatism in its speculative trust can also help engage education in thinking of a future that does not belong to a presupposed humanity and its "nature" by dramatizing a certain insistence of educational institutions on maintaining comfort and trust in the "common good." What is at stake in education facing planetary ecological devastation and intensified racial and social injustices, Mikulan contends, is an ethics of refusal of institutionalized learning, knowing, and doing "tout court," particularly if these educational regimes continue to insist on governing what are deemed the only "possible" (and thus impossible) enactments of education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01