Abstract
Abstract: This essay problematizes the term ‘decolonization’ as applied to university dance and performance curricula. It does so via Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s (2012) argument that colonization is rooted in a worldview that positions beings as exploitable things. Addressing efforts to foster diversity within studio training, choreography, and scholarship, the casualization of labor within university departments is also examined. The essay considers the structure of the university as both a colonial and corporate entity, signaling its relationship to the precarity of neoliberalism. The paper concludes by suggesting that arts and humanities scholarship and teaching create opportunities for alternate ways of living and interacting beyond neoliberal, neocolonial paradigms.
Highlights
RÉSUMÉ – Décoloniser le Programme d’Études? Possibilités troublantes de formation a la performance – Cet article problématise le terme ‘décolonisation’ appliqué aux programmes de danse et de performance universitaires
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RÉSUMÉ – Décoloniser le Programme d’Études? Possibilités troublantes de formation a la performance – Cet article problématise le terme ‘décolonisation’ appliqué aux programmes de danse et de performance universitaires. Decolonization has largely supplanted the term postcolonial, signaling a shift from critiquing conditions generated by colonialism toward actively working against them. Tuck and Yang point out that decolonization recognizes the continued investment in settler colonialism that even participants in progressive undertakings bring with them.
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