The Politics of Cultural Knowledge

The advent and implementation of European colonialism have disrupted innumerable epistemological geographies around the globe. Countless cultural ways of knowing and local educational practices have in some way been displaced and dislocated within the universalizing project of the Euro-Colonial Empi...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wane, Njoki (Editor), Kempf, Arlo (Editor), Simmons, Marlon (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2011.
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Summary:The advent and implementation of European colonialism have disrupted innumerable epistemological geographies around the globe. Countless cultural ways of knowing and local educational practices have in some way been displaced and dislocated within the universalizing project of the Euro-Colonial Empire. This book revisits the colonial relations of culture and education, questions various embedded imperial procedures and extricates the strategic offerings of local ways of knowing which resisted colonial imposition. The contributors of this collection are concerned with the ways in which colonial education forms the governing edict for local peoples. In The Politics of Cultural Knowledge, the authors offer an alternative reading of conventional discussions of culture and what counts as knowledge concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, identity, and difference in the context of the Diaspora.
Physical Description:IX, 163 p. online resource.
ISBN:9789460914812