{"product_id":"unsettling-the-university-confronting-the-colonial-foundations-of-us-higher-education-9781421445045","title":"Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of Us Higher Education","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eShifts the narrative around the history of US higher education to examine its colonial past.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast between a bleak present and a romanticized past. In \u003ci\u003eUnsettling the University\u003c\/i\u003e, Sharon Stein offers a different entry point--one informed by decolonial theories and practices--for addressing these issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStein describes the colonial violence underlying three of the most celebrated moments in US higher education history: the founding of the original colonial colleges, the creation of land-grant colleges and universities, and the post-World War II \"Golden Age.\" Reconsidering these historical moments through a decolonial lens, Stein reveals how the central promises of higher education--the promises of continuous progress, a benevolent public good, and social mobility--are fundamentally based on racialized exploitation, expropriation, and ecological destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eUnsettling the University\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to confront universities' historical and ongoing complicity in colonial violence; to reckon with how the past has shaped contemporary challenges at institutions of higher education; and to accept responsibility for redressing harm and repairing relationships in order to reimagine a future for higher education rooted in social and ecological accountability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon Stein\u003c\/b\u003e (VANCOUVER, BC \/ MUSQUEAM TERRITORY) is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of British Columbia and a visiting professor with the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University. She is the founder of the Critical Internationalization Studies Network and a founding member of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50388245971218,"sku":"9781421445045","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6eeeb99e-038b-47ef-9522-7b80994fc521.jpg?v=1728895171","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unsettling-the-university-confronting-the-colonial-foundations-of-us-higher-education-9781421445045","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}