5. Toward an Ethics of Opacity in Higher Education Internationalization

<?page nr="91"?>Abstract This conceptual essay employs the intersecting lenses of critical university studies (CUS) and decolonial theory to make a critical intervention into the terrain of ethics in higher education internationalization. It is argued that a combined framework of ideas from CUS and decolonial theory will bring a sharper social justice and decolonizing edge to debates on how to disrupt dominant ethical frames of action in higher education internationalization. In particular, the author develops Corey Walker’s (2011) notion of the “ethics of opacity” as an approach that interrogates the logics of neoliberalism and coloniality/modernity in internationalization practices and policies of higher education. It is suggested that the ethics of opacity provides ethical and political recognition to the opaque sites and repressed knowledges of marginalized and colonized peoples. The paper discusses the implications of the ethics of opacity for a renewed agenda in internationalization practices and policies of higher education.

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Review of The University and Social Justice: Struggles across the Globe edited by Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally (Pluto Press / Between the Lines)

Lateral ◽

10.25158/l10.1.24 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Vineeta Singh

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Social Movements ◽

Social Justice ◽

Cultural Studies ◽

Case Studies ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

University Studies ◽

Privatization Of Higher Education ◽

The University ◽

Critical University Studies

In this edited collection, Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally present reflections and analyses from scholar-activists in education studies, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies describing university-based and affiliated social movements. Through thirteen essays covering case studies in twelve countries, the anthology offers a broad review of student organizing against neoliberalization and more specifically, the privatization of higher education; intersectional and coalitional strategies imagined through these struggles; and alternative modes of knowledge production pre-figured in their organizing. Geographic and disciplinary breadth make the anthology a welcome addition to the growing corpus of (transnational) critical university studies.

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Waking Yourself Up: The Liberatory Potential of Critical University Studies

10.31235/osf.io/cdnfr ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur ◽

Scott Renshaw

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

General Education ◽

Faculty Member ◽

First Generation ◽

Hidden Curriculum ◽

Sense Of Self ◽

University Studies ◽

The University ◽

First Time ◽

Critical University Studies

Critical university studies courses can provide students with a context in which to learn not only about the concealed workings and hidden curriculum of the university, but more than that a liberatory space in which to find voice in shaping their own futures. This paper explores the liberatory potential of critical university studies through a conversation between a faculty member who designed and taught an interdisciplinary general education course on higher education and a student who was enrolled in the course the first time it was offered. The conversation explores the course’s pedagogy as both professor and student contemplate the ways in which contemporary higher education may limit the horizons of first-generation students and the ways in which critical university studies can open up possibilities and provide students with a sense of self-efficacy.

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