Mobilizing Whiteness: Race, Futurity and Globalization of Higher Education
- Maia Chankseliani, University of Oxford
- Professor Riyad Shahjahan, Michigan State University
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Amid growing debates about globalization of higher education, an analysis of race as a structural force underlying this global phenomenon remains undertheorized. This presentation provides a critical race temporal account of globalization of higher education by critically examining mobility trends in global higher education, namely: (a) mobility of imaginaries, (b) mobility of people, and © mobility of resources. It demonstrates how Whiteness as futurity colonizes (or orients) global subjects’ imaginaries and reinforces the asymmetrical movements, networks, and untethered economies underpinning global higher education.
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Dr. Riyad A. Shahjahan is Associate Professor of Higher, Adult and Life Long Education at Michigan State University in the United States. He is an influential theorist and academic author in relation to globalisation and comparative international education, including race, coloniality and the critique of methodological nationalism.
