Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Epistemic Decolonization: A Critical Investigation Into the Anticolonial Politics of Knowledge

Epistemic Decolonization: A Critical Investigation Into the Anticolonial Politics of Knowledge

Wood, D. A.

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3030499618
ISBN13: 9783030499617
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 29 2020
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

European colonization played a major role in the acquisition, formation, and destruction of different ways of knowing. Recently, many scholars and activists have come to ask: Are there ways in which knowledge might be decolonized? Epistemic Decolonization examines a variety of such projects from a critical and philosophical perspective. The book introduces the unfamiliar reader to the wide variety of approaches to the topic at hand, providing concrete examples along the way. It argues that the predominant contemporary approach to epistemic decolonization leads one into various intractable theoretical and practical problems. The book then closely investigates the political and scientific work of Frantz Fanon and Amílcar Cabral, demonstrating how their philosophical commitments can help lead one out of the practical and theoretical issues faced by the current, predominant orientation, and concludes by forging links between their work and that of some contemporary feministepistemologists.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Philosophy

View All