NO STUDY WITHOUT STRUGGLE

A Conversation with Leigh Patel

As calls to decolonize education multiply across contexts and institutions, we must push this issue beyond optics and return to the question: what does commitment to decolonization demand? What risks and struggles? What experiments and solidarities?

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a person with light brown skin wearing a dark brownish-red poncho sits at a desk while smiling and gesturing with their left hand
a red book cover with a black-red swirl, with title "no study without struggle" written in yellow caps
a book cover with a black-gray background resembling outer space, with some points of light. the title is in white and reads "decolonizing educational research"
a book cover depicting the wall at the US-Mexico border. the left half of the photo is a sandy ground and a blue sky; the right side of the cover is the rust red and silver gray wall. the book title "youth held at the border" is superimposed in red and black.

Leigh Patel is a prolific teacher, theorist, and organizer of (and with!) movements to dismantle colonialism and build the world otherwise.

Her most recent book is No Study without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education. Her other books include Decolonizing Educational Research: From Ownership to Accountability and Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education, and the Politics of Inclusion. They belong on every radical pedagogy bookshelf.

In this episode, Prof. Patel guides us as we embark on a deep dive into these urgent questions as they ramify across scales. Refusing to partition study from struggle, Patel exposes the settler colonial processes that continue to shape higher education, even as she lifts up radical projects of education otherwise.

Prof. Patel is the Professor of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.

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