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Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously (African Arguments)
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Wydawca: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Data wydania: 30.06.2022
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
EAN: 9781787386921
Opis
Opis
A leading African political philosopher's searing intellectual and moral critique of today's decolonisation movement.
Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing 'morality' or 'authenticity'; it suffocates African thought and denies African agency.
Olúf?´mi Táíwo fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonisation' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonisation industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds 'decolonisation' of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society's foundations. Worst of all, today's movement attacks its own cause: 'decolonisers' themselves are disregarding, infantilising and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers.
This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today's 'decolonisation' truly serves African empowerment. Táíwo's is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.
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Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing 'morality' or 'authenticity'; it suffocates African thought and denies African agency.
Olúf?´mi Táíwo fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonisation' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonisation industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds 'decolonisation' of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society's foundations. Worst of all, today's movement attacks its own cause: 'decolonisers' themselves are disregarding, infantilising and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers.
This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today's 'decolonisation' truly serves African empowerment. Táíwo's is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.
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358 40 500 3575
Szczegóły
Szczegóły
Data wydania: 30.06.2022
Liczba stron: 368
Wymiary: 12.6x19.0
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Autor:
Tytuł:Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously (African Arguments)
EAN: 9781787386921
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