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Title: University as a Knowscape for Epistemic Emancipation: Possibilities and Constraints
Language: English
Authors: Hamza R'boul (ORCID 0000-0003-4398-7573)
Source: European Journal of Education. 2026 61(1).
Availability: Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 11
Publication Date: 2026
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Universities, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Decolonization, Higher Education, College Curriculum, Power Structure, Educational Change, Teacher Role, Change Agents
Geographic Terms: Morocco
DOI: 10.1111/ejed.70470
ISSN: 0141-8211
1465-3435
Abstract: Epistemic emancipation refers to the erosion of any interference that obstructs subjects' ability to produce, gain and negotiate knowledge. This article argues that epistemic emancipation does not fundamentally and solely proceed from the spatial and temporal presence of alternative epistemologies as an end in itself, nor does it presuppose a complete delinking from the dominant epistemes to reaffirm the originality and non-derivativeness of Southern ways of knowing. This article draws on email interviews with 16 Moroccan university professors, as key agents in unsettling or reproducing epistemic hierarchies, to explore the mobilisations of decoloniality within Moroccan higher education. The findings revealed that (a) Moroccan professors framed epistemic emancipation to be fundamentally about reclaiming intellectual sovereignty from colonial knowledge hierarchies, including paradigms of knowledge production and validation; (b) they mobilised curricular interventions which recenter local epistemes to enact epistemic emancipation, but they were required to navigate institutional constraints; and (c) linguistic hierarchies, colonial institutional policies and epistemological gatekeeping were the main constraints complicating professors' epistemic emancipation struggles.
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