Decolonizing the Curriculum? Unsettling possibilities for performance training
This essay problematizes the term ‘decolonization’ as applied to university dance and performance curricula. It does so via Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s (2012) argument that colonization is rooted in a worldview that positions beings as exploitable things. Addressing efforts to foster diversity with...
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| description | This essay problematizes the term ‘decolonization’ as applied to university dance and performance curricula. It does so via Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s (2012) argument that colonization is rooted in a worldview that positions beings as exploitable things. Addressing efforts to foster diversity within studio training, choreography, and scholarship, the casualization of labor within university departments is also examined. The essay considers the structure of the university as both a colonial and corporate entity, signaling its relationship to the precarity of neoliberalism. The paper concludes by suggesting that arts and humanities scholarship and teaching create opportunities for alternate ways of living and interacting beyond neoliberal, neocolonial paradigms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d5aedc736a6149c48aa545a6e24e3ba12022-12-22T02:29:12ZengUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulRevista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença2237-26602018-12-01080475076210.1590/2237-266078871Decolonizing the Curriculum? Unsettling possibilities for performance trainingJanet O’Shea0University of California - UCLA, Los Angeles, United States of AmericaThis essay problematizes the term ‘decolonization’ as applied to university dance and performance curricula. It does so via Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s (2012) argument that colonization is rooted in a worldview that positions beings as exploitable things. Addressing efforts to foster diversity within studio training, choreography, and scholarship, the casualization of labor within university departments is also examined. The essay considers the structure of the university as both a colonial and corporate entity, signaling its relationship to the precarity of neoliberalism. The paper concludes by suggesting that arts and humanities scholarship and teaching create opportunities for alternate ways of living and interacting beyond neoliberal, neocolonial paradigms.http://ref.scielo.org/9nxh3wDecolonizationWorld DanceNeoliberalismCasualization of LaborPrecarity |
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| title | Decolonizing the Curriculum? Unsettling possibilities for performance training |
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