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Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously
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ISBN13：9781787386921
出版社：HURST & CO
作者：Olúfemi Táíwò
出版日：2022/09/15
裝訂：平裝
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商品簡介
Decolonization has lost its way. Originally conceived as a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often used to perform contemporary 'morality' or 'authenticity'. In the process, it suffocates African thought, and denies African
agency. Olemi T摿w?fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonization' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonization industry, obsessed with exposing slights and cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming
scholarship on and in Africa. He finds decolonization as applied to culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society's foundations. Worst of all, today's movement attacks its own
proclaimed cause: 'decolonizers' themselves are disregarding, infantilizing and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today's 'decolonization' truly serves African empowerment. T摿w?s is a bold challenge to all concerned for Africa's future: to resist sweeping moralities, and grant the respect due to African intellectuals as innovative adaptors,
appropriators and synthesizers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant. It's time to reclaim decolonization, within the constraints of what is measurable, achievable and desirable.
agency. Olemi T摿w?fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonization' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonization industry, obsessed with exposing slights and cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming
scholarship on and in Africa. He finds decolonization as applied to culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society's foundations. Worst of all, today's movement attacks its own
proclaimed cause: 'decolonizers' themselves are disregarding, infantilizing and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today's 'decolonization' truly serves African empowerment. T摿w?s is a bold challenge to all concerned for Africa's future: to resist sweeping moralities, and grant the respect due to African intellectuals as innovative adaptors,
appropriators and synthesizers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant. It's time to reclaim decolonization, within the constraints of what is measurable, achievable and desirable.
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