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Social geography I: Anti‐racism, implacable whiteness and decolonizing Anglo‐American geography

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Anoop NayakORCiD

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© The Author(s) 2024.Transnational events including worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, #Rhodes Must Fall and university encampments across Europe and the US in resistance to Israel’s occupation and bombing of Gaza have provided momentum for a decolonial ‘turn’ throughout the education sector. By exploring the emergence of anti-racist decolonial themes in Anglo-American geography I argue that the whiteness of the discipline, its roots in colonial modernity, as well as the neoliberal production of whiteness in Higher Education stymies decolonizing agendas. Nevertheless, I further demonstrate how anti-racist decolonial perspectives are being reconfigured by geographers with the potential to rethink geographical theory, pedagogy and practice.

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Author(s): Nayak A

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Progress in Human Geography

Year: 2025

Volume: 49

Issue: 1

Pages: 109-118

Print publication date: 01/02/2025

Online publication date: 05/11/2024

Acceptance date: 02/04/2024

Date deposited: 25/11/2024

ISSN (print): 0309-1325

ISSN (electronic): 1477-0288

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325241296067

DOI: 10.1177/03091325241296067

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