Jairo I Fúnez-Flores
Biographic Data
| ID | 317389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jairo I Fúnez-Flores |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jairo I |
| FAMILY NAME | Fúnez-Flores |
| SIGNATURE | FÚNEZ-FLORES J I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8107-309X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Curriculum Theorizing in a Time of Genocide, Scholasticide, and (Counter)Insurgency
Bergamo Keynote 2025
Decolonising’ medieval Irish history? The (im)possibility of challenging existing practice
The ‘Decolonial’ turn has come to the discipline of Irish history. How will it be used? As a liberal metaphor or decolonial praxis? As the turn proceeds through the discipline to pre-modern studies, it is increasingly likely to be liberally defanged and homogenised. We, three scholars from various fields, present some questions on the application of epistemic decolonisation to ‘medieval’ ‘Irish’ history and some methods and methodologies along wi…
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory
Curriculum inquiry in times of genocide
This article contextualizes the pervasive silence and complicity within academia regarding the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation and settler colonialism. Drawing on Edward Said’s critique of complicit intellectuals, it highlights the failure of many self-proclaimed critical, anti-racist, and decolonial scholars to take a principled stance on Palestine, especially in light of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The article underscores the …
Planetary entanglements
Embracing decolonial theory in critical whiteness studies
What is translanguaging and raciolinguistics doing in the field of curriculum studies
This article critically examines the intersections of translanguaging, raciolinguistics, and curriculum studies within the context of Latin America. It interrogates how dominant discourses and practices perpetuate coloniality and linguistic hierarchies in the region. Through an analysis of a special issue of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, the paper explores how emergent scholarship challenges the hegemony of Global English and disrupts c…
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception
This article reflects on my experience of being suspended and reinstated. It demonstrates how administrators, including those at my institution, knowingly violate academic freedom and free speech. Throughout, I discuss the institutional and political machinations seeking to silence dissident voices, particularly those who critique Israel and Zionist settler colonialism. The aim is to make more visible the linkages between external pressure and th…
Inside the ivory tower, the view from a “space invader”
This paper examines the experiences of racialized PhD students in British elite universities. It is framed by Mills' (2007) conception of white ignorance and reflects on the power of whiteness that shapes everyday experiences in such places of privilege. For Mills, the production of racism relies on epistemological processes that produce ignorance, and which promote various ways of ignoring the histories and legacies of European colonialism. Rese…
Sketching the theoretical and methodological contours of Sylvia Wynter’s sociogenesis
This article builds upon Fanon's and Wynter's theory of sociogeny to sketch the contours of decolonial sociography. Initially, it expounds on the inextricable link between sociogeny, coloniality of being, and race to examine how discourses and social practices establish racial-colonial structures of subjugation and exploitation. The authors posit that decolonial sociography constitutes not only a counter-cartography but also a methodological shif…
Toward decolonial globalisation studies
This article draws on the epistemologies of the South, namely decolonial theory, to point to the analytical and interpretive limitations of northern theories of globalisation. It gestures toward decolonial globalisation studies to provide an alternative reading of global justice movements, including university student movements in Latin America. Moreover, it maintains that situating university student movements geopolitically provides a valuable …
Decolonial Discourses and Practices
Although decolonial thought from Latin America and the Caribbean is a multifaceted field of research and sociopolitical praxis, it is often interpreted monolithically. To refuse this tendency, we argue that it is imperative to trace decolonial theory’s intellectual genealogies and engage in transgressive decolonial hermeneutics to re-interpret texts (theories) according to their living socio-historical and geopolitical contexts. Following Stuart …
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory
In this article, I examine the conceptual and methodological points of convergence and divergence of two intellectual currents frequently referred to as the decolonial and ontological turns in social and anthropological theory. Salient points considered are the ways both theoretical projects unsettle modernity's dominant ontological and epistemological foundations by seriously engaging the conceptual potential of thinking with alterity (ethical d…
Toward a transgressive decolonial hermeneutics in activist education research
This chapter explores transgressive decolonial hermeneutics (TDH) as a theoretical method in activist education research. TDH departs from the later’s philosophical transgression of texts and shifts toward the ethico-political and pedagogical transgressions enabled by interpreting collective action and its concomitant discourses and practices. TDH takes a decolonial point of departure to refer to a broader social totality reconceptualized as the …
Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.S. Curriculum
Guide to New ResourcesSection Editors: Ming Fang He, Isabel Nunez, Maria Jose Botelho, Cheryl E. Matias, Helen Maniates, and JoAnn PhillionW. Au, A. L. Brown, & D. Calderon (2016). Reclaiming the M
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory
In this article, I examine the conceptual and methodological points of convergence and divergence of two intellectual currents frequently referred to as the decolonial and ontological turns in social and anthropological theory. Salient points considered are the ways both theoretical projects unsettle modernity's dominant ontological and epistemological foundations by seriously engaging the conceptual potential of thinking with alterity (ethical d…
Decolonial Discourses and Practices
Although decolonial thought from Latin America and the Caribbean is a multifaceted field of research and sociopolitical praxis, it is often interpreted monolithically. To refuse this tendency, we argue that it is imperative to trace decolonial theory’s intellectual genealogies and engage in transgressive decolonial hermeneutics to re-interpret texts (theories) according to their living socio-historical and geopolitical contexts. Following Stuart …
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception
This article reflects on my experience of being suspended and reinstated. It demonstrates how administrators, including those at my institution, knowingly violate academic freedom and free speech. Throughout, I discuss the institutional and political machinations seeking to silence dissident voices, particularly those who critique Israel and Zionist settler colonialism. The aim is to make more visible the linkages between external pressure and th…
Toward decolonial globalisation studies
This article draws on the epistemologies of the South, namely decolonial theory, to point to the analytical and interpretive limitations of northern theories of globalisation. It gestures toward decolonial globalisation studies to provide an alternative reading of global justice movements, including university student movements in Latin America. Moreover, it maintains that situating university student movements geopolitically provides a valuable …
Inside the ivory tower, the view from a “space invader”
This paper examines the experiences of racialized PhD students in British elite universities. It is framed by Mills' (2007) conception of white ignorance and reflects on the power of whiteness that shapes everyday experiences in such places of privilege. For Mills, the production of racism relies on epistemological processes that produce ignorance, and which promote various ways of ignoring the histories and legacies of European colonialism. Rese…
Embracing decolonial theory in critical whiteness studies
Sketching the theoretical and methodological contours of Sylvia Wynter’s sociogenesis
This article builds upon Fanon's and Wynter's theory of sociogeny to sketch the contours of decolonial sociography. Initially, it expounds on the inextricable link between sociogeny, coloniality of being, and race to examine how discourses and social practices establish racial-colonial structures of subjugation and exploitation. The authors posit that decolonial sociography constitutes not only a counter-cartography but also a methodological shif…
Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.S. Curriculum
Guide to New ResourcesSection Editors: Ming Fang He, Isabel Nunez, Maria Jose Botelho, Cheryl E. Matias, Helen Maniates, and JoAnn PhillionW. Au, A. L. Brown, & D. Calderon (2016). Reclaiming the M
Toward a transgressive decolonial hermeneutics in activist education research
This chapter explores transgressive decolonial hermeneutics (TDH) as a theoretical method in activist education research. TDH departs from the later’s philosophical transgression of texts and shifts toward the ethico-political and pedagogical transgressions enabled by interpreting collective action and its concomitant discourses and practices. TDH takes a decolonial point of departure to refer to a broader social totality reconceptualized as the …
Toward decolonial globalisation studies
This article draws on the epistemologies of the South, namely decolonial theory, to point to the analytical and interpretive limitations of northern theories of globalisation. It gestures toward decolonial globalisation studies to provide an alternative reading of global justice movements, including university student movements in Latin America. Moreover, it maintains that situating university student movements geopolitically provides a valuable …
Decolonial Discourses and Practices
Although decolonial thought from Latin America and the Caribbean is a multifaceted field of research and sociopolitical praxis, it is often interpreted monolithically. To refuse this tendency, we argue that it is imperative to trace decolonial theory’s intellectual genealogies and engage in transgressive decolonial hermeneutics to re-interpret texts (theories) according to their living socio-historical and geopolitical contexts. Following Stuart …
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory
In this article, I examine the conceptual and methodological points of convergence and divergence of two intellectual currents frequently referred to as the decolonial and ontological turns in social and anthropological theory. Salient points considered are the ways both theoretical projects unsettle modernity's dominant ontological and epistemological foundations by seriously engaging the conceptual potential of thinking with alterity (ethical d…
What is translanguaging and raciolinguistics doing in the field of curriculum studies
This article critically examines the intersections of translanguaging, raciolinguistics, and curriculum studies within the context of Latin America. It interrogates how dominant discourses and practices perpetuate coloniality and linguistic hierarchies in the region. Through an analysis of a special issue of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, the paper explores how emergent scholarship challenges the hegemony of Global English and disrupts c…
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception
This article reflects on my experience of being suspended and reinstated. It demonstrates how administrators, including those at my institution, knowingly violate academic freedom and free speech. Throughout, I discuss the institutional and political machinations seeking to silence dissident voices, particularly those who critique Israel and Zionist settler colonialism. The aim is to make more visible the linkages between external pressure and th…
Inside the ivory tower, the view from a “space invader”
This paper examines the experiences of racialized PhD students in British elite universities. It is framed by Mills' (2007) conception of white ignorance and reflects on the power of whiteness that shapes everyday experiences in such places of privilege. For Mills, the production of racism relies on epistemological processes that produce ignorance, and which promote various ways of ignoring the histories and legacies of European colonialism. Rese…
Sketching the theoretical and methodological contours of Sylvia Wynter’s sociogenesis
This article builds upon Fanon's and Wynter's theory of sociogeny to sketch the contours of decolonial sociography. Initially, it expounds on the inextricable link between sociogeny, coloniality of being, and race to examine how discourses and social practices establish racial-colonial structures of subjugation and exploitation. The authors posit that decolonial sociography constitutes not only a counter-cartography but also a methodological shif…
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory
Curriculum inquiry in times of genocide
This article contextualizes the pervasive silence and complicity within academia regarding the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation and settler colonialism. Drawing on Edward Said’s critique of complicit intellectuals, it highlights the failure of many self-proclaimed critical, anti-racist, and decolonial scholars to take a principled stance on Palestine, especially in light of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The article underscores the …
Planetary entanglements
Embracing decolonial theory in critical whiteness studies
Curriculum Theorizing in a Time of Genocide, Scholasticide, and (Counter)Insurgency
Bergamo Keynote 2025
Decolonising’ medieval Irish history? The (im)possibility of challenging existing practice
The ‘Decolonial’ turn has come to the discipline of Irish history. How will it be used? As a liberal metaphor or decolonial praxis? As the turn proceeds through the discipline to pre-modern studies, it is increasingly likely to be liberally defanged and homogenised. We, three scholars from various fields, present some questions on the application of epistemic decolonisation to ‘medieval’ ‘Irish’ history and some methods and methodologies along wi…
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)