Summary
The beyond-reform space is one position on a map of responses to the harms of modernity, drawn in 2015 by Vanessa Andreotti, Sharon Stein, Cash Ahenakew and Dallas Hunt in a paper on decolonisation in higher education. Soft reform asks how to do things differently within existing institutions. Radical reform asks whose knowledge counts. Beyond reform asks about being differently: it holds that the harm is built into modernity, so reform won’t remove it. A later Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures handout gives its aim as “enabling another global imaginary to emerge”.
The authors call the map “a pedagogical rather than normative exercise”, a way of seeing tensions in each position.
Rationale
Its three depths – doing, knowing, being differently – mirror our move from “what stories we should tell” to the orientations beneath them. Like its authors, we don’t treat the deepest as the only work.
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