Decolonizing the Spirit in Education and Beyond

This multidisciplinary collection probes ways in which emerging and established scholars perceive and theorize decolonization and resistance in their own fields of work, from education to political and social studies, to psychology, medicine, and beyond. In this time of renewed global spiritual awakening, indigenous communities are revisiting ways of knowing and evoking theories of resistance informed by communal theories of solidarity. Using an intersectional lens, chapter authors present or imagine modes of solidarity, resistance, and political action that subvert postcolonial and neocolonial formations. Placing emphasis on the importance of theorizing the spirit, a discourse that is deeply embedded in our unique cultures and ancestries, this book is able to capture and better understand these moments and processes of spiritual emergence/re-emergence.

Auteur

Njoki Nathani Wane is Chair of the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Wane's research interests include African Indigenous knowledges, spirituality, anti-colonial, decolonial, and decolonization theory.

Miglena S. Todorova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada. She is also the Director of the Centre for Media and Culture in Education at OISE.

Kimberly L. Todd is a PhD candidate in Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Todd's research interests include teacher Praxis and education, decolonization, Indigenous epistemologies, dreaming, and spiritual knowledges.

Contenu

1. Decolonizing Western Medicine and Systems of Care: Implications for Education2. Is Decolonizing the Spirit Possible?3. Spirituality and the Search for Home: The Complexities of Practicing Sikhism on Indigenous Land4. Land and Healing: A Decolonizing Inquiry for Centering Land as the Site of Indigenous Medicine and Healing5. Healing and Well-Being as Tools of Decolonization and Social Justice: Anti-colonial Praxis of Indigenous Women in the Philippines6. Decolonizing Western Medicine and Systems of Care: Implications for Education7. Blood Anger: The Spirituality of Anti-Colonial Blood-Anger for Self Defense8. In my Mother's Kitchen: Spirituality and Decolonization9. Reclaiming Cultural Identity through Decolonization of Eating Habits10. A Journal on Ubuntu Spirituality11. Shedding the Colonial Skin: The Decolonial Potentialities of Dreaming12. Critical Spirituality: Decolonizing the Self13. A Landscape of Sacred Regeneration and Resilience14. Closing Dialogue on Decolonizing the Spirit with Dr. Njoki Nathani Wane and Kimberly L. Todd15. Conclusion: The Politics of Spirituality: A Postsocialist View