Theory and Praxis - Reflections on the Colonization of Knowledge

Summary

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;


• Enlarges the scope of multilinear historicism whereby Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas are drawn in a new humanistic knowledge system;


• Studies how colonization is resisted in both the non-Western and Western world.

Lucid and engaging, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social theory, education, politics and public policy.

Product details

• Authors: Murzban (Indian Institute of Education Jal
• Assisted by: Jyoti Bawane (Editor), Murzban Jal (Editor), Jal Murzban (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2020
• EAN: 9780367408039
• ISBN: 978-0-367-40803-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, EDUCATION / Arts in Education, Political structure & processes, Educational strategies & policy, Political structure and processes, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities