Avoiding the Housekeeping Trap:Challenges and Opportunities in a Decolonizing Project at the University of East Anglia, UK

Wang, Yao, Pham, Thinh Ngoc, Henry, Suzanne, Simon, Surya, Hynes, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3059-189X and Theuerkauf, Ulrike (2024) Avoiding the Housekeeping Trap:Challenges and Opportunities in a Decolonizing Project at the University of East Anglia, UK. In: Decolonizing Educational Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan, 55–72. ISBN 978-3-031-55687-6

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Abstract

This chapter is based on the authors’ reflections about the challenges and opportunities that they encountered while working on a new teaching toolkit for the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK, between February 2022 and May 2023. The chapter’s central arguments deal with the so-called ‘institutional housekeeping trap’, which refers to the risk that certain professional activities are relegated to the realm of unpaid or otherwise unrecognized labor. As the authors’ experience working on the UEA toolkit shows, close collaboration between different members of the university and ongoing criticality about the relevance of positionality are crucial to ensure that decolonization efforts are not reduced to the racialized, gendered and often little-rewarded realm of institutional housekeeping.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Creative Writing Research Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > The State, Governance and Conflict
Related URLs:	https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2023 11:23
Last Modified:	24 Sep 2024 08:25
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93639
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-031-55688-3_4

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