Sharon Stein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Stein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Stein |
| SIGNATURE | STEIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
AI and Education for Planetary Flourishing: Towards Earth-Alignment
Indigenous and decolonial approaches to environmental learning
The 2025 Special Issue of AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples -" Living a Life that Feels Just Right": Indigenous and Decolonial Approaches to Environmental (Re)learning for Planetary Care in a Time of Climate Uncertainty , envisioned by guest editors Elizabeth Sumida Huaman and Sharon Stein, goes beyond merely describing ecological precarity in different places around the world. It brings together diverse learning interve…
The Challenges of Interrupting Climate Colonialism in Higher Education: Reflections on a University Climate Emergency Plan
In this article Sharon Stein and Jan Hare ask how higher education institutions might begin to confront the connections between climate change and colonization. To grapple with this question, they examine the dynamics through which climate action can reproduce colonial relations and reflect on the challenges, complexities, and possibilities that emerged in the context of one university’s Indigenous engagement efforts around a climate emergency de…
Towards Settler Responsibility in Conservation
This conceptual paper reviews recent efforts to confront colonialism in conservation, with an emphasis on the challenges and complexities that have emerged among settler organizations engaged in this work. We consider recent academic and grey literature in the field in order to map different approaches to conservation, including the emerging interface of Indigenous and western approaches. We also map different approaches to Indigenous engagement …
What Counts as Internationalization? Deconstructing the Internationalization Imperative
This article examines how internationalization is defined by three leading higher education professional associations: NAFSA, the International Association of Universities, and the European Association of International Education. We examine key publications to understand which activities, topics, and constituencies are included in conceptualizations of internationalization and, conversely, which are absent. We find that all three rely on similar …
Transforming Our World: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by SDG Academy, presented in edX. www.edx.org/course/transforming-our-world-achieving-the-sustainable-d
Who Decides? In Whose Name? For Whose Benefit? Decoloniality and Its Discontents
The growing traction of decolonization as a discourse and practice within and beyond the context of academic scholarship has generated important spaces for critical, selfreflexive engagements with the role of systemic, historical, and ongoing colonial violence in the foundations of various scholarly fields. Although the overarching area of "decolonial critique" contains a considerable range of perspectives, both complementary and contradictory, o…
Beyond Higher Education as We Know it: Gesturing Towards Decolonial Horizons of Possibility
Higher Education and the Im/possibility of Transformative Justice
The Persistent Challenges of Addressing Epistemic Dominance in Higher Education: Considering the Case of Curriculum Internationalization
The recent growth of internationalization at colleges and universities in the Global North has amplified the need to address the ongoing colonial politics of knowledge in these institutions. In this article I argue that a failure to denaturalize and interrupt long-standing patterns of curricular Euro-supremacy may result in internationalization becoming yet another means of economic expansion and epistemic erasure. However, rather than offer a pr…
The Educational Challenge of Unraveling the Fantasies of Ontological Security
In this article we address the current context of intensified racialized state securitization by tracing its roots to the naturalized colonial architectures of everyday modern life—which we present through the metaphor of "the house modernity built." While contemporary crises are often perceived to derive from external threats to the house, we argue that in fact these crises are a product of the violent and unsustainable practices that are requir…
Cash, competition, or charity: International students and the global imaginary
Universities, slavery, and the unthought of anti-Blackness
Over the past 10 years there has been an increase in institutional recognition of how US universities and their founders directly participated in and benefitted from Black chattel slavery. However, these developments have largely escaped the attention of scholars who take higher education as their object of study. This article offers a conceptual reading of how apology efforts around slavery have unfolded at a single university. Drawing on the in…
American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, 3rd edition (2011) Philip G. Altbach, Patricia J. Gumport, & Robert O. Berdahl, editors
The Educational Challenge of Unraveling the Fantasies of Ontological Security
In this article we address the current context of intensified racialized state securitization by tracing its roots to the naturalized colonial architectures of everyday modern life—which we present through the metaphor of "the house modernity built." While contemporary crises are often perceived to derive from external threats to the house, we argue that in fact these crises are a product of the violent and unsustainable practices that are requir…
Beyond Higher Education as We Know it: Gesturing Towards Decolonial Horizons of Possibility
Universities, slavery, and the unthought of anti-Blackness
Over the past 10 years there has been an increase in institutional recognition of how US universities and their founders directly participated in and benefitted from Black chattel slavery. However, these developments have largely escaped the attention of scholars who take higher education as their object of study. This article offers a conceptual reading of how apology efforts around slavery have unfolded at a single university. Drawing on the in…
Who Decides? In Whose Name? For Whose Benefit? Decoloniality and Its Discontents
The growing traction of decolonization as a discourse and practice within and beyond the context of academic scholarship has generated important spaces for critical, selfreflexive engagements with the role of systemic, historical, and ongoing colonial violence in the foundations of various scholarly fields. Although the overarching area of "decolonial critique" contains a considerable range of perspectives, both complementary and contradictory, o…
Higher Education and the Im/possibility of Transformative Justice
American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, 3rd edition (2011) Philip G. Altbach, Patricia J. Gumport, & Robert O. Berdahl, editors
Cash, competition, or charity: International students and the global imaginary
Universities, slavery, and the unthought of anti-Blackness
Over the past 10 years there has been an increase in institutional recognition of how US universities and their founders directly participated in and benefitted from Black chattel slavery. However, these developments have largely escaped the attention of scholars who take higher education as their object of study. This article offers a conceptual reading of how apology efforts around slavery have unfolded at a single university. Drawing on the in…
The Persistent Challenges of Addressing Epistemic Dominance in Higher Education: Considering the Case of Curriculum Internationalization
The recent growth of internationalization at colleges and universities in the Global North has amplified the need to address the ongoing colonial politics of knowledge in these institutions. In this article I argue that a failure to denaturalize and interrupt long-standing patterns of curricular Euro-supremacy may result in internationalization becoming yet another means of economic expansion and epistemic erasure. However, rather than offer a pr…
The Educational Challenge of Unraveling the Fantasies of Ontological Security
In this article we address the current context of intensified racialized state securitization by tracing its roots to the naturalized colonial architectures of everyday modern life—which we present through the metaphor of "the house modernity built." While contemporary crises are often perceived to derive from external threats to the house, we argue that in fact these crises are a product of the violent and unsustainable practices that are requir…
Higher Education and the Im/possibility of Transformative Justice
Beyond Higher Education as We Know it: Gesturing Towards Decolonial Horizons of Possibility
What Counts as Internationalization? Deconstructing the Internationalization Imperative
This article examines how internationalization is defined by three leading higher education professional associations: NAFSA, the International Association of Universities, and the European Association of International Education. We examine key publications to understand which activities, topics, and constituencies are included in conceptualizations of internationalization and, conversely, which are absent. We find that all three rely on similar …
Transforming Our World: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by SDG Academy, presented in edX. www.edx.org/course/transforming-our-world-achieving-the-sustainable-d
Who Decides? In Whose Name? For Whose Benefit? Decoloniality and Its Discontents
The growing traction of decolonization as a discourse and practice within and beyond the context of academic scholarship has generated important spaces for critical, selfreflexive engagements with the role of systemic, historical, and ongoing colonial violence in the foundations of various scholarly fields. Although the overarching area of "decolonial critique" contains a considerable range of perspectives, both complementary and contradictory, o…
The Challenges of Interrupting Climate Colonialism in Higher Education: Reflections on a University Climate Emergency Plan
In this article Sharon Stein and Jan Hare ask how higher education institutions might begin to confront the connections between climate change and colonization. To grapple with this question, they examine the dynamics through which climate action can reproduce colonial relations and reflect on the challenges, complexities, and possibilities that emerged in the context of one university’s Indigenous engagement efforts around a climate emergency de…
Towards Settler Responsibility in Conservation
This conceptual paper reviews recent efforts to confront colonialism in conservation, with an emphasis on the challenges and complexities that have emerged among settler organizations engaged in this work. We consider recent academic and grey literature in the field in order to map different approaches to conservation, including the emerging interface of Indigenous and western approaches. We also map different approaches to Indigenous engagement …
Indigenous and decolonial approaches to environmental learning
The 2025 Special Issue of AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples -" Living a Life that Feels Just Right": Indigenous and Decolonial Approaches to Environmental (Re)learning for Planetary Care in a Time of Climate Uncertainty , envisioned by guest editors Elizabeth Sumida Huaman and Sharon Stein, goes beyond merely describing ecological precarity in different places around the world. It brings together diverse learning interve…
AI and Education for Planetary Flourishing: Towards Earth-Alignment
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Higher education (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (3 works)