Responsibility, Privileged Irresponsibility and Response-ability: Higher Education, Coloniality and Ecological Damage (Palgrave Critical University Studies)

✍ Scribed by Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book uses the overlapping approaches of political care ethics and feminist posthumanism as a lens to focus on the notions of privileged irresponsibility, responsibility and response-ability within the context of higher education and as it pertains to the issues of colonialism/decolonisation, pandemics and the climate crisis. The book will appeal to scholars in the field of higher education as well as to those in several other fields, such as ecology, gender studies, sociology, philosophy, and political science.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Theoretical Lenses of the Book
Description of the Chapters
References
Chapter 2: Responsibility
Introduction
Responsibility as Relational
Responsibility as Political
Responsibility as Caring Ethical and Political Practice
Responsibility as Entanglement
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Privileged Irresponsibility
Introduction
Tronto’s Notion of Privileged Irresponsibility
Tronto’s Phases and Elements of a Care Ethic
Tronto’s ‘Passes’ Out of Responsibility
Plumwood’s Mechanisms That Maintain Privileged Irresponsibility
Wilful Ignorance
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Response-Ability
Introduction
Attentiveness and Noticing
Politeness and Curiosity
Openness to Encounter
Rendering Each Other Capable
Iterative Response-Ability
Response-Ability as a Form of Resistance to Closures
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Coloniality
Introduction
The Coloniality of Affects and Affective Decolonisation
The Affective Decolonisation of Complicity and Non-innocence
Affective Solidarity as Decolonising Solidarity
Nurturing Affective Practices of Decolonising Solidarity in Higher Education
Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 6: Ecological Catastrophe
Introduction
Responsibility—Entangled University and Ecological Damage
Coloniality and Privileged Irresponsibility: Implications for Higher Education
Response-Able Practices in Higher Education Institutions
The Contribution of Black and Indigenous Worldviews
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Conclusion
The Ethics of Opacity
Propositions for Responsibility and Response-Ability in Higher Education
References
References
Index