This presentation speaks against this point of view by arguing that bias is not unconscious but instead is linked to Charles Mills’ (1997) ‘Racial Contract’ and its  ‘epistemologies of ignorance’.


Two sets of arguments, previously separated in the decolonisation debates, are brought together here to argue that higher education institutions need to rebuild relational justice as an important aspect of social justice.

Critical Human Rights Citizenship and Democracy Education: Entanglements and Regenerations

Edited by Michalinos Zembylas & André Keet

A ground-breaking collection of scholarly research that views human rights, democracy and citizenship education as a critical project.



Title of lecture: The Plastic University - Knowledge, Disciplines and Decolonial 'Circulations'