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- English
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About this book
This book puts contemporary calls for decolonisation in context. Featuring an interdisciplinary team of scholars from around the world, the book explores and critically assesses the diverse theoretical visions which inform calls for decolonisation of the mind today.
Contemporary calls to decolonise focus less on politico-economic relations between states, more on culture and ideas. Sometimes museums are the target, sometimes universities or academic disciplines, sometimes entire legal systems. Commentators and activists speak out for, others against, intellectual decolonisation: decolonisation of the mind. But what is the colonisation which intellectual decolonisation undoes? Under what circumstances can inculcation or acceptance of ideas constitute colonialism? As this book demonstrates, advocates of intellectual decolonisation give very different—indeed, incompatible—answers to these questions. Critically examining conceptualisations of decolonisation spanning a century and four continents, the book explores what is at stake in the choice between these theoretical alternatives. Some see the aim of decolonisation as truth, via the removal of distorting effects of power and bias. Others troublingly subordinate truth and knowledge to ethnic or regional identity, potentially paving the way for culturally authoritarian politics.
Intellectual Decolonisation: Critical Perspectives is an indispensable resource for teachers, students and scholars seeking to deepen their understanding of debates about decolonisation of the mind. Individual chapters will interest researchers of the new right-wing, ethnonationalist political ideologies emerging in Europe, Asia and Africa. Originally published as a special issue of Social Dynamics, this book is also a guide for anyone wondering what decolonisation is all about.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Varieties of intellectual decolonisation: an introduction
- 2 From “dependency” to “decoloniality”? The enduring relevance of materialist political economy and the problems of a “decolonial” alternative
- 3 The problem of epistemological critique in contemporary Decolonial theory
- 4 Is being itself colonial?
- 5 “That other me, down and dreaming”: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory
- 6 Decolonising Sinology: on Sinology’s weaponisation of the discourse of race
- 7 Whither epistemic decolonisation? How to make experiences a source of moral justification
- 8 The decolonisation of the mind and history as an academic discipline
- 9 Decolonisation in Africa: love or litigation? Mandela as moral capital
- 10 Is decolonisation Africanisation? The politics of belonging in the truly African university
- 11 Intellectual decolonisation and the danger of epistemic closure: the need for a critical decolonial theory
- 12 My decoloniality is not your decoloniality: the new multiverse – an opinion piece
- 13 Decoloniality and right-wing nationalism in India: the case of J Sai Deepak
- Index