tavis d. jules is a Full Professor in Cultural and Educational Policy & International Higher Education at Loyola University Chicago, USA. Florin D. Salajan is Professor in the School of Education at North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA. Anna Becker is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow & Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Benjamin Scherrer is Assistant Professor of Education at the City University of New York (CUNY) Lehman College, USA.

• The Cultural Turn in Comparative and International Education: Decolonizing the Field in an Era of Post-Humanist Pluriverse Thinking and Racial Capitalism; tavis d. jules and Florin D. Salajan Chapter 1. The Diffracted Wave in Comparative and International Education’s Cinematic Spaces and Ourselves: Toward Pluriversal Thinking and New Conversations; Winne Wong, Anna Becker, and Cathryn Magno Chapter 2. Playing Colonialism in the Classroom: A New Facet of the Epistemological Legacy of Colonialism?; Max Crumley-Effinger and Yver Alonso Melchor Hernández Chapter 3. Beyond Coloniality: Embracing Critical Whiteness, Co-conspiratorship and Racial Literacy in Comparative and International Education; Amy C. Nelson Christensen and tavis d. jules Chapter 4. Pedagogies of Refusal in International Development and Education; Mariam Rashid and Ann Wilthew Chapter 5. An e–talanoa of the Comparative and International Education Research Field: Relational vā–decoloniality in Oceania; Tepora Wright, David Taufui Mikato Faʻavae, Ben Levy, Emma Packham, Katie Arihia Virtue, and Dassia Watkins-Matavalea Chapter 6. Academic Freedom and Decoloniality: Reconciling the Seemingly Irreconcilable; Irving Epstein Chapter 7. The EU-as-empire Logic in the EU’s Higher Education Policy: Normative Imperialism, Soft Colonization or Genuine Co-equal Partnerships?; Florin D. Salajan Chapter 8. Alternative Worlds Are Possible: Educational Decolonization and Open Reparative Futures; Chevy Eugene and tavis d. jules Chapter 9. Decolonial Haunting of Education in Modern Africa: Epistemic Opacities in the Wake of Colonial Schooling; Benjamin Scherrer, Maguette Diame, and Bara Mbengue Chapter 10. Beyond Decoloniality: Embracing a Third-space of Interculturality in Higher Education; Yujun Xu Beyond Conclusions: Decolonizing Comparative and International Education – Toward Pluriversal Futures; Benjamin Scherrer and Anna Becker

tavis d. jules is a Full Professor in Cultural and Educational Policy & International Higher Education at Loyola University Chicago, USA. Florin D. Salajan is Professor in the School of Education at North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA. Anna Becker is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow & Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Benjamin Scherrer is Assistant Professor of Education at the City University of New York (CUNY) Lehman College, USA.

• The Cultural Turn in Comparative and International Education: Decolonizing the Field in an Era of Post-Humanist Pluriverse Thinking and Racial Capitalism; tavis d. jules and Florin D. Salajan Chapter 1. The Diffracted Wave in Comparative and International Education’s Cinematic Spaces and Ourselves: Toward Pluriversal Thinking and New Conversations; Winne Wong, Anna Becker, and Cathryn Magno Chapter 2. Playing Colonialism in the Classroom: A New Facet of the Epistemological Legacy of Colonialism?; Max Crumley-Effinger and Yver Alonso Melchor Hernández Chapter 3. Beyond Coloniality: Embracing Critical Whiteness, Co-conspiratorship and Racial Literacy in Comparative and International Education; Amy C. Nelson Christensen and tavis d. jules Chapter 4. Pedagogies of Refusal in International Development and Education; Mariam Rashid and Ann Wilthew Chapter 5. An e–talanoa of the Comparative and International Education Research Field: Relational vā–decoloniality in Oceania; Tepora Wright, David Taufui Mikato Faʻavae, Ben Levy, Emma Packham, Katie Arihia Virtue, and Dassia Watkins-Matavalea Chapter 6. Academic Freedom and Decoloniality: Reconciling the Seemingly Irreconcilable; Irving Epstein Chapter 7. The EU-as-empire Logic in the EU’s Higher Education Policy: Normative Imperialism, Soft Colonization or Genuine Co-equal Partnerships?; Florin D. Salajan Chapter 8. Alternative Worlds Are Possible: Educational Decolonization and Open Reparative Futures; Chevy Eugene and tavis d. jules Chapter 9. Decolonial Haunting of Education in Modern Africa: Epistemic Opacities in the Wake of Colonial Schooling; Benjamin Scherrer, Maguette Diame, and Bara Mbengue Chapter 10. Beyond Decoloniality: Embracing a Third-space of Interculturality in Higher Education; Yujun Xu Beyond Conclusions: Decolonizing Comparative and International Education – Toward Pluriversal Futures; Benjamin Scherrer and Anna Becker

tavis d. jules is a Full Professor in Cultural and Educational Policy & International Higher Education at Loyola University Chicago, USA. Florin D. Salajan is Professor in the School of Education at North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA. Anna Becker is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow & Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Benjamin Scherrer is Assistant Professor of Education at the City University of New York (CUNY) Lehman College, USA.

• The Cultural Turn in Comparative and International Education: Decolonizing the Field in an Era of Post-Humanist Pluriverse Thinking and Racial Capitalism; tavis d. jules and Florin D. Salajan Chapter 1. The Diffracted Wave in Comparative and International Education’s Cinematic Spaces and Ourselves: Toward Pluriversal Thinking and New Conversations; Winne Wong, Anna Becker, and Cathryn Magno Chapter 2. Playing Colonialism in the Classroom: A New Facet of the Epistemological Legacy of Colonialism?; Max Crumley-Effinger and Yver Alonso Melchor Hernández Chapter 3. Beyond Coloniality: Embracing Critical Whiteness, Co-conspiratorship and Racial Literacy in Comparative and International Education; Amy C. Nelson Christensen and tavis d. jules Chapter 4. Pedagogies of Refusal in International Development and Education; Mariam Rashid and Ann Wilthew Chapter 5. An e–talanoa of the Comparative and International Education Research Field: Relational vā–decoloniality in Oceania; Tepora Wright, David Taufui Mikato Faʻavae, Ben Levy, Emma Packham, Katie Arihia Virtue, and Dassia Watkins-Matavalea Chapter 6. Academic Freedom and Decoloniality: Reconciling the Seemingly Irreconcilable; Irving Epstein Chapter 7. The EU-as-empire Logic in the EU’s Higher Education Policy: Normative Imperialism, Soft Colonization or Genuine Co-equal Partnerships?; Florin D. Salajan Chapter 8. Alternative Worlds Are Possible: Educational Decolonization and Open Reparative Futures; Chevy Eugene and tavis d. jules Chapter 9. Decolonial Haunting of Education in Modern Africa: Epistemic Opacities in the Wake of Colonial Schooling; Benjamin Scherrer, Maguette Diame, and Bara Mbengue Chapter 10. Beyond Decoloniality: Embracing a Third-space of Interculturality in Higher Education; Yujun Xu Beyond Conclusions: Decolonizing Comparative and International Education – Toward Pluriversal Futures; Benjamin Scherrer and Anna Becker