Article Selected for Publication in Australia

The Australian journal Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education has accepted Associate Professor Nina Asher’s article “Writing Home/Decolonizing Text(s)” for publication. The article argues for generating decolonizing texts as one way to write and reclaim home in a postcolonial world. It discusses how colonizers must leave home to seek power and control elsewhere and therefore suffer the loss of home as they know it.

Asher analyzes this dislocation in terms of the material, educational, and psychic reaches of colonization. Asher also examines how colonialism causes the alienation from “home.” In addition, she discusses the implications for decolonization including engaging and generating decolonizing text(s).