Sylvia Wynter, racialized affects, and minor feelings

Unsettling the coloniality of the affects in curriculum and pedagogy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21345726
AutoresM Zembylas (0000-0001-6896-7347, Nelson Mandela University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume54
Fascículo3
Páginas336-350
Data de publicação2022-05-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Curriculum Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0272 • E-ISSN: 1366-5839
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220272.2021.1946718
OpenAlexW3182313470
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas48

This essay builds on the notion of ‘racialized affects’ in conjunction with recent educational theorizing of Sylvia Wynter’s work on ‘the human’ to consider how these insights might extend conceptualizations on the ‘coloniality of the affects’ in curriculum and pedagogy. Specifically, the analysis shows how bringing into conversation Wynter’s account on the overrepresentation of Western (White) Man with recent theorizations of ‘racialized affects’ and the ‘coloniality of the affects’ can make a significant contribution to unsettling affective norms and practices of contemporary schooling in societies shaped by ongoing White supremacy. The essay examines how White European bourgeois theories of affect are implicated in both colonization and racialization, thus naming and disrupting racialization can enable the use of affect theory in education to become more attentive to plural affective perspectives and histories (‘minor feelings’) and to support more just and equitable schooling

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics) · Art · Curriculum · Curriculum studies · Feeling · Pedagogy · Race (biology) · Racialization · Sociology · White (mutation) · White supremacy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology