A Pedagogical Response to Decoloniality: Decolonial Atmospheres and Rising Subjectivity.

The neoliberal academy is, at its core, an apparatus through which coloniality sustains itself. Despite the academy's self-promotion as a catalyzing institution that prepares students to become agents of social change and transformation, some students and faculty experience it as a crucible of oppression. In this essay I trace the beginnings of a project I was a part of in which I worked alongside students who demanded that a psychology program in the university be transformed into a force for decoloniality.