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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774820203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-11-073319-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 230 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

306.091724

Soggetti

RELIGION / Islam / History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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