Postcolonialism Cross-Examined

Albrecht, Monika

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“…10 It emerged approximately four decades back within the fields of comparative literature and humanities with the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism (Said, 1978 ) and later of Culture and Imperialism (Said, 1993 ). This new perspective which was fashioned by the scholarship of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak—these three being called the theoretical trinity of post-colonial studies—has since found legitimacy as a mode of doing critical theory within academies of North America and Europe and has increasing spread in this avatar across the world (Schwarz and Ray, 2005 ; Albrecht, 2020 ). With the decolonial position 11 (Mignolo, 2011 ; Mignolo and Walsh, 2018 ), a perspective promoted in the late 1990s by the USA based Latin American Studies programme, they have stamped ways to rethink the analysis of literature and lives of the colonized in all parts of the world.…”

Section: Setting Up the Discussion: On Anti-colonial Social Theorymentioning

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Anti-colonial thought and global social theory

Patel¹

2023

Front. Sociol.

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From the late 1980s onward, global social theory has been introduced to a new perspective variously called indigeneity, endogeneity, Orientalism, Eurocentrism, post-colonial, decolonial, and Southern sociology/social sciences. This study argues that the above-mentioned trends should be collectively termed anti-colonial social theory as all of these explore the relationship between colonialism and knowledge production. The study divides the growth of anti-colonial social theory in terms of two phases and relates it to changing geopolitics of the 20th century. It argues that these distinct trends manifest a united stance in its ontological-epistemic articulation. It also argues that anti-colonial social theory can play a relevant role in a knowledge system divided through colonial/imperial relationships, given its theorization on the same.

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“… 22 There is an extensive critical assessment of postcolonialism. See Schwarz and Ray ( 2005 ), and a recent work is that of Albrecht ( 2020 ). For a sociological critique, see Turner ( 1989 ).…”

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Anti-colonial thought and global social theory

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2023

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“…the 'Global South'). This affects the cultural sector and the humanities, for example, in the form of the low recognition of indigenous cultural traditions in the humanities canon and their designation as 'exotic' or "indigenous' compared to the allegedly global universality and meaning of European cultural traditions and objects (Albrecht 2019;Durer et al 2018). The current debate mainly focuses on objects from former colonised countries that still remain in the hands of the colonial powers' museums and heritage institutions.…”

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Citizen Humanities

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Weißpflug

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The Science of Citizen Science

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Citizen humanities is the term for citizen ‘science’ in the humanities. It has a long tradition and, since the object of investigation is human culture, raises questions about values, cultural significance, and deeper meaning of phenomena related to human culture.The development of digital technologies not only led to the emergence of digital humanities but also to new ways of involving citizens in the activities of cultural heritage institutions and academic research. Participants’ contributions to academic research and to the preservation of cultural heritage range from uncovering treasures hidden in archives and digital environments to tapping local knowledge. Their tasks have included tagging, transcribing, or cataloguing artefacts, through which they acquire specialist knowledge and competences, while assisting scholars and researchers to gain new insights. Challenges in the citizen humanities include biases, participant training and retention, as well as the advancement of digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence.Citizen humanities can combine topical issues in society with academic knowledge, demonstrate the relevance of the humanities for society, and establish a direct link to its members. In addition to the advancement of knowledge, the citizen humanities can unlock the potential of embedded, diverse, and culturally sensitive knowledge and play a crucial role in preserving and enriching cultural heritage.

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“…As scholars, it is furthermore important to continuously interrogate how we construct our critique. Scholarship and conversations around 'decolonising knowledge' recognise the eastern European region's imperial/colonial past (Tlostanova, 2019), and highlight the difficulty of providing critique through language and through the views of those about whom we write, without recourse to the same canonised Western orthodox theoretical frameworks and dogma. We find affinities with decolonial movements advocating to break with "familiar citational infrastructure" (Nagar, 2019: 5) and to submerge ourselves into the worlds of those about whom we write, and the values and things that are worth fighting for and preserving.…”

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Kovács

2021

Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe

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Postcolonialism Cross-Examined

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