edited by Njoki Wane, Arlo Kempf, and Marlon Simmons
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1 online resource (xiii, 163 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references
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Introduction to the politics of cultural knowledge / Njoki Wane, Marlon Simmons -- African indigenous feminist thought: an anti-colonial project / Njoki Wane -- Circulating Western notions: implicating myself in the transnational traffic of 'progress' and commodities / John Catungal -- The race to modernity: understanding culture through the diasporic-self / Marlon Simmons -- Remembering the 1947 partition of India through the voices of second generation Punjabi women / Mandeep Kaur Mucina -- Moving beyond neo-colonialism to Ubuntu governance / Devi Mucina -- Being part of the cultural chain / Yumiko Kawano -- North African knowledges and the Western classroom: situating selected literature / Arlo Kempf -- What might we learn if we silence the colonial voice?: finding our own keys / Donna Outerbridge -- A conversation about conversations: dialogue based methodology and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa / Imara Ajani Rolston -- The politics of African development: conversations with women from rural Kenya / Njoki Wane -- Conclusion / Arlo Kempf
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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