Introduction

Abstract

This book is written as a means to rupture the apparent end of history and closure of emancipatory horizons proclaimed by the prophets of neoliberal capitalism. It is written by, and through engagement with, critical educators who are committed to forging worlds beyond capitalism in thought and practice. Patriarchal colonial capitalism has at its heart an epistemological project that is deeply pedagogical. Such an organization of social life and relationships seeks to enact monological closure through producing alienated and instrumental rationalities and technologies of governance that silence all other knowledges and ways of producing our society. Such an epistemological project produces itself through the creation of its underside—the unruly, uneducated, and irrational others whose experiences, wisdoms, knowledges, and ways of life are delegitimized and violently denied.