Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World : Decolonial Challenges to the Humanities and Social Sciences from Africa, Asia and the Middle East / ed. by Kai Kresse, Abdoulaye Sounaye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Al-Hardan, Anaheed, Contributor.

Badat, Saleem, Contributor.

Banerjee, Prathama, Contributor.

Kresse, Kai, Contributor.

Kresse, Kai, Editor.

Osha, Sanya, Contributor.

Pandey, Rakesh, Contributor.

Seidel, Roman, Contributor.

Shami, Seteney, Contributor.

Sounaye, Abdoulaye, Contributor.

Sounaye, Abdoulaye, Editor.

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Funder.

Series:

ZMO-Studien

ZMO-Studien : Studien des Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient ; 43

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

As far too many intellectual histories and theoretical contributions from the ‘global South’ remain under-explored, this volume works towards redressing such imbalance. Experienced authors, from the regions concerned, along different disciplinary lines, and with a focus on different historical timeframes, sketch out their perspectives of envisaged transformations. This includes specific case studies and reflexive accounts from African, South Asian, and Middle Eastern contexts. Taking a critical stance on the ongoing dominance of Eurocentrism in academia, the authors present their contributions in relation to current decolonial challenges. Hereby, they consider intellectual, practical and structural aspects and dimensions, to mark and build their respective positions. From their particular vantage points of (trans)disciplinary and transregional engagement, they sketch out potential pathways for addressing the unfinished business of conceptual decolonization. The specific individual positionalities of the contributors, which are shaped by location and regional perspective as much as in disciplinary, biographical, linguistic, religious, and other terms, are hereby kept in view. Drawing on their significant experiences and insights gained in both the global north and global south, the contributors offer original and innovative models of engagement and theorizing frames that seek to restore and critically engage with intellectual practices from particular regions and transregional contexts in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. This volume builds on a lecture series held at ZMO in the winter 2019-2020

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: ‘Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World’ as Urgent and Necessary Process

South and North, East and West

Contesting Northern Hegemony in Knowledge-Making in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Sovereignty and Ascendancy

Knowledge and Power in Sociology

C. A. Diop’s Decolonising Historiography

Decentring the Grand Narrative of the Enlightenment

The Pūrva-Pakṣa of Modern Indian Thought

List of Contributors

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-073319-6

OCLC:

1356977397