A Manifestación to Disinvent Mundus’ Authoritarian Regimes and the Categorical Imperative of Hospitality

Abstract

This chapter engages with the regimes that assemble the European Union’s flagship education and training program Erasmus Mundus. The analysis focuses on “Europe,” “dialogue and understanding,” and “third” as regimes of global educational policies and technologies of transnational governance. The chapter is a manifestación, a critical expression (not a critique) against these regimes. Erasmus Mundus is an educational program that aims to promote dialogue, understanding, and cooperation with “third countries.” The analysis zooms into a specific master’s program to see how the authority of the regimes is implicated in delimiting how it is possible to act in and upon the world through disciplining inquiry. Central to Erasmus Mundus is mobility (as a desirable construct) of the Erasmus Mundus student. At a crucial time on matters of migration (of the undesirables) in Europe, the chapter draws connections to the perversion and perversibility of the hospitality predicated on the positive aspirations of horizontal policies written in programs such as Erasmus Mundus. The larger aspiration of the chapter is to raise questions that are suggestive cues for generating ideas that should refuse to receive and dare invent educational dynamics that disinvent educational regimes such as the ones addressed in the chapter.