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Feminist Currents: Decolonial Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University

Feminist Currents: Decolonial Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University Feminist Currents Decolonial Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University Eileen Boris and Elizabeth Currans For this installment of “Feminist Currents,” we took our questions to the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) in Montreal, November 10–13, 2016. We earlier had asked readers of this journal to discuss the effects of today’s neoliberal political economy on programs and departments in Women’s, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and what strategies they have witnessed or envisioned to cope, confront, and survive. In keeping with NWSA’s theme for 2016, we asked roundtable participants to bring a decolonial lens to this question by exploring how decolonial imaginaries and strategies can inform responses to shrinking budgets, requests to quantify feminist pedagogical interventions, and institutional concerns with student credit hour productions. We were interested in how our departments and classrooms can address student and faculty experiences of colonial and neoliberal trauma while responding to forces that question the legitimacy of our work and operate within a market-driven, heteropatriarchal understanding of education. Days before we recorded this conversation, the 2016 US presidential election shook the world. Our conversation occurred in the shadow of the victory of Donald Trump, an individual considered to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies University of Nebraska Press

Feminist Currents: Decolonial Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University

Boris, Eileen
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies , Volume 38 (2) – Sep 9, 2017
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Feminist Currents Decolonial Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University Eileen Boris and Elizabeth Currans For this installment of “Feminist Currents,” we took our questions to the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) in Montreal, November 10–13, 2016. We earlier had asked readers of this journal to discuss the effects of today’s neoliberal political economy on programs and departments in Women’s, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and what strategies they have witnessed or envisioned to cope, confront, and survive. In keeping with NWSA’s theme for 2016, we asked roundtable participants to bring a decolonial lens to this question by exploring how decolonial imaginaries and strategies can inform responses to shrinking budgets, requests to quantify feminist pedagogical interventions, and institutional concerns with student credit hour productions. We were interested in how our departments and classrooms can address student and faculty experiences of colonial and neoliberal trauma while responding to forces that question the legitimacy of our work and operate within a market-driven, heteropatriarchal understanding of education. Days before we recorded this conversation, the 2016 US presidential election shook the world. Our conversation occurred in the shadow of the victory of Donald Trump, an individual considered to

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