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Dissident Thought: A Decolonising Framework for Revolt in the University

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True dissidence, Kristeva suggests, remains what it always has been: thought. And furthermore, such thought is a critical form of inner revolt. In this chapter we conceptualise thought as a decolonising framework drawing on the notions of exile, dissidence and delirium to argue for critical encounters with thought, as inherent, and in recent times arguably disappearing, in the university. Applied through a Maori conception of thought in the historicised and localised context of New Zealand, this framework for dissent draws on the past, to rethink the present and future. It examines thinking as expressions of dissidence through elevating conceptually, ideologically, racially, culturally subjugated and marginalised ways of knowing, being and learning in the academe. A Kristevan notion of revolt drives the argument to conclude with a call for thought as a vital and energising confluence of knowledges, as a crucial state of inner chaos, necessary to preserving the inner life of the self and of thought in the university.

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    Sonja Arndt & Carl Mika

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Arndt, S., Mika, C. (2018). Dissident Thought: A Decolonising Framework for Revolt in the University. In: Bengtsen, S., Barnett, R. (eds) The Thinking University. Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77667-5_4

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