{"product_id":"unsettling-the-university","title":"Unsettling the University","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShifts the narrative around the history of US higher education to examine its colonial past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast between a bleak present and a romanticized past. In \u003ci\u003eUnsettling the University\u003c\/i\u003e, Sharon Stein offers a different entry point—one informed by decolonial theories and practices—for addressing these issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStein describes the colonial violence underlying three of the most celebrated moments in US higher education history: the founding of the original colonial colleges, the creation of land-grant colleges and universities, and the post–World War II \"Golden Age.\" Reconsidering these historical moments through a decolonial lens, Stein reveals how the central promises of higher education—the promises of continuous progress, a benevolent public good, and social mobility—are fundamentally based on racialized exploitation, expropriation, and ecological destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnsettling the University\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to confront universities' historical and ongoing complicity in colonial violence; to reckon with how the past has shaped contemporary challenges at institutions of higher education; and to accept responsibility for redressing harm and repairing relationships in order to reimagine a future for higher education rooted in social and ecological accountability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244949066072,"sku":"9781421445045","price":44.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781421445045.jpg?v=1777726835","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/unsettling-the-university","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}