Theory and Praxis: Reflections on the Colonization of Knowledge
Murzban Jal, "Theory and Praxis: Reflections on the Colonization of Knowledge"
English | ISBN: 0367408031 | 2020 | 262 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0367408031 | 2020 | 262 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book proposes a New Enlightenment – a new way of looking at the non-Western world. Breaking new ground, the essays chart a course beyond Eurocentric discourses (which completely ignore the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin-America) and forms of nativism (which are usually ethnocentric discourses).
The volume:
Focuses on the historical aspects of knowledge-production and its colonization;
Examines the genre of multilinear histories that displaces hegemonic Eurocentric discourses;
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