Education, Colonialism and Necropolitics in West Papua
Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80262-522-6, eISBN: 978-1-80262-521-9
Publication date: 19 July 2022
Abstract
West Papua is a non-self-governing territory without much prominence in international debates. While offering an overview of the province’s political, social and environmental troubles, this chapter chiefly focuses on concrete issues in the field of education (such as its literacy and early school drop-out rates, inequality in opportunities and access to education, poor infrastructure or the low quality of teaching) through analysis of the educational resources that Indonesia, as administrator of the region, offers to West Papuans. In general, the control that Indonesia exerts over West Papua could be said to rely on the use of violence, repression, expropriation, depopulation, and even indiscriminate killings. Therefore, the chapter also encourages debate on the geopolitical status of West Papua by placing it within the framework of postcolonial studies and suggesting that the notions of necropolitics and necroeducation should be taken as a complementary perspective from which to approach its situation in the study of comparative and international education.
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Citation
Beneite-Martí, J. (2022), "Education, Colonialism and Necropolitics in West Papua", Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021 (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 42A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 207-227. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-36792022000042A016
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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