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

Yao Wang; Thinh Ngoc Pham; Suzanne Henry; Surya Simon; Claire Hynes; Ulrike Theuerkauf

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-55688-3_4

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

Yao Wang, Thinh Ngoc Pham, Suzanne Henry, Surya Simon, Claire Hynes, Ulrike Theuerkauf

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Decolonizing Educational Knowledge
Subtitle of host publication	International Perspectives and Contestations
Editors	Ann E. Lopez, Herveen Singh
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	55–72
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-55688-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-55687-6, 978-3-031-55690-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55688-3_4
Publication status	Published - 4 Jun 2024

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Wang, Y., Pham, T. N., Henry, S., Simon, S., Hynes, C., & Theuerkauf, U. (2024). Avoiding the Housekeeping Trap: Challenges and Opportunities in a Decolonizing Project at the University of East Anglia, UK. In A. E. Lopez, & H. Singh (Eds.), Decolonizing Educational Knowledge: International Perspectives and Contestations (pp. 55–72). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55688-3_4

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Decolonizing Educational Knowledge: International Perspectives and Contestations. ed. / Ann E. Lopez; Herveen Singh. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. p. 55–72.

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