Responsibility, Privileged Irresponsibility and Response-Ability: Higher Education, Coloniality and Ecological Damage - Hardcover

by Vivienne Bozalek (Author), Michalinos Zembylas (Author)

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.

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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.
Vivienne Bozalek is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) at Rhodes University, South Africa.

Michalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus, Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia.

Author Biography

Vivienne Bozalek is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) at Rhodes University, South Africa.

Michalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus, Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia.