Indigenising Eurocentric sociology: The ‘captive mind’ and five decades of sociology in Nigeria

Onwuzuruigbo, Ifeanyi

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“…Another intervention focuses on introducing the writings of non-western thinkers and schools into the academy (Alatas and Sinha, 2017; Onwuzuruigbo, 2018; Patel, 2009). This intervention grew out of calls ‘to build autonomous and indigenous sociologies .…”

Section: How Decolonial Debates Circumvent Movement Textsmentioning

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Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory

Ahmad

2022

Sociology

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Despite the decolonial turn among sociologists, we have yet to engage a vast amount of thought produced by anti-colonial movements. The circumvention of much of this thought indexes overly restrictive understandings of what constitutes social theory, and I diagnose three ways in which this plays out. Anti-colonial movement texts provide striking demonstrations of this limitation, and of what is lost as a result. Through a close study of a banned 1970s pamphlet from Pakistan, I show that critically deepening the decolonial project through an engagement with movement texts raises ethical questions about the academy’s relationship to political struggle and demands new methodologies of archival retrieval that recognise the scattered, fragmented condition of texts subject to colonial violence. If addressed, southern movement texts reveal counter-infrastructures of knowledge production replete with counter-political vocabularies that challenge homogenising academic definitions of the Global South and enrich our theories of decolonial praxis.

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Section: How Decolonial Debates Circumvent Movement Textsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory

Ahmad

2022

Sociology

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“…The story of the Canadian‐ization campaign for sociology shows academic dependence cannot be simply attributed to the dichotomy between West and East, and the feeling of dependence takes place even in the Western societies. However, it is in former Western colonies (e.g., Africa and Latin America) where the discussion of academic dependency and decolonization gains footing (Keim, 2011; Onwuzuruigbo, 2018; Ruvituso, 2020). During the 1970s and 1980s, the idea of academic dependence was further developed and inspired by the dependent development theorists' efforts to theorize the central‐periphery model of dependency.…”

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In What Ways We Depend: Academic Dependency Theory and the Development of East Asian Sociology

Lee¹,

Chen

2022

J Historical Sociology

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Since it was framed 20 years ago, Syed Farid Alatas's theory of academic dependence has made a long‐lasting impact within the global social science field, and has elevated the previous discussion on academic dependence. In this essay, we critically examine his theory of academic dependence with an original dataset that contains 22 top sociology institutions in East Asia, including China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. We further engage the data, and theory within the global higher education ranking system, a theme that had not yet emerged when he framed his theory of academic dependence. Our findings suggest that (1) higher rankings do not create job opportunities for locally trained PhDs; (2) emphasis on the number of publications is still prevalent; (3) adopting the standards set up by the ranking agency re‐enforces the existing global division of academic labor. Overall, sociology in these societies after 20 years is now more dependent, rather than autonomous from, the Western academic center.

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“…In the past decade, an ever‐growing interest in the phenomenon is evidenced by the multiplying of relevant publications, edited book volumes and special issues. Surprisingly, while the issue of academic dependency has been frequently examined in the context of Africa, Latin America and the Middle‐East in the last two decades (Collyer, 2018; Cortés, 2021; Onwuzuruigbo, 2018), in spite of the fact that Asia is the most prominent rising political and economic region in the Global South and in the world, the same issue has not been scrutinized systematically in the context of Asian academia, especially that of East Asia.…”

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Are We Still Dependent? Academic Dependency Theory After 20 Years

Tenzin¹,

Lee²

2022

J Historical Sociology

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Academic dependency theory has attracted increasing attention in academia in the last two decades, especially during the last decade. Syed Farid Alatas, a Singapore‐Malaysia based sociologist, has contributed significantly to the popularization of the idea of academic dependency through theorizing and foregrounding the conditions of dependency in Western‐dominated knowledge production and the global division of academic labor. The growing importance of this idea as applied in Asian contexts is however inseparable from the reconfiguration of the world‐systems in which Asia and especially China have achieved great advancement economically and otherwise. In line with this transformation, we have seen an enhanced effort in Asia and the Global South towards decolonization and indigenization in educational and academic domains. We have therefore organized this special issue to engage critically with Alatas's theory and to rethink the status quo of dependency, decolonization and indigenization in Asia, particularly East Asia, in response to a new development in global and local higher education and research. To close our discussion, we call for an action‐based initiative to address and transform the circumstances of dependency and for more genuine global collaborations.

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Indigenising Eurocentric sociology: The ‘captive mind’ and five decades of sociology in Nigeria

Cited by 28 publications

References 28 publications

Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory

Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory

In What Ways We Depend: Academic Dependency Theory and the Development of East Asian Sociology

Are We Still Dependent? Academic Dependency Theory After 20 Years

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