Responsibility, Privileged Irresponsibility and Response-ability: Higher Education, Coloniality and Ecological Damage

Description

The book examines the concepts of privileged irresponsibility, responsibility, and response-ability in higher education, focusing on colonialism/decolonisation, pandemics, and the climate crisis, appealing to scholars in various fields.

Format: Hardback
Length: 167 pages
Publication date: 24 July 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This book employs a multifaceted approach, drawing on the overlapping perspectives of political care ethics and feminist posthumanism, to explore the concepts of privileged irresponsibility, responsibility, and response-ability within the realm of higher education and its implications for colonialism/decolonization, pandemics, and the climate crisis. It offers valuable insights to scholars in higher education, as well as to those in various other fields, including ecology, gender studies, sociology, philosophy, and political science.

Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031349959
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023