Decolonizing Heritage

Decolonizing Heritage

Author: Ferdinand De Jong

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-03-17

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1009092413

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Senegal's cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future.


Decolonizing Human Rights

Decolonizing Human Rights

Author: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-12-09

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1108417132

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This book advances practical protection of human rights, and challenge claims of western monopoly of human rights discourse.


Decolonizing Sociology

Decolonizing Sociology

Author: Ali Meghji

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1509541969

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Sociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitment to colonial ways of thinking. This book explores why, and how, sociology needs to be decolonized. It analyses how sociology was integral in reproducing the colonial order, as dominant sociologists constructed theories either assuming or proving the supposed barbarity and backwardness of colonized people. Ali Meghji reveals how colonialism continues to shape the discipline today, dominating both social theory and the practice of sociology, how exporting the Eurocentric sociological canon erased social theories from the Global South, and how sociologists continue to ignore the relevance of coloniality in their work. This guide will be necessary reading for any student or proponent of sociology. In opening up the work of other decolonial advocates and under-represented thinkers to readers, Meghji offers key suggestions for what teachers and students can do to decolonize sociology. With curriculum reform, innovative teaching and a critical awareness of these issues, it is possible to make sociology more equitable on a global scale.


Decolonizing Refinement

Decolonizing Refinement

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Publisher: Fsu Museum of Fine Arts

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781889282350

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From the Foreword by Paul B. Niell: "To decolonize refinement, to us, is to critique the role of visual and material culture in the constitution of the coloniality of power from 1492 to the present from the myriad perspectives of the marginalized. Through this collaboration with Edouard Duval-Carri', we have come to know an artist who grapples with the coloniality of art and its histography. By his critically acclaimed body of work, Edouard has committed himself to opening up spaces of contemplation, critical reflection, and paradox, where the images and objects of empire sometimes become the very agents employed to challenge and unsettle the conventions that shape the way we see the world." The work of Edouard Duval-Carri', a Haitian-born painter and sculptor, often engages and complicates the legacy of refinement in the Caribbean. He is an artist of both the modern and colonial worlds and incorporates the very products of modernity into his work--from plastics to photographs--cleverly juxtaposing refined materials with images to critique the processes of modern fabrication through historical systems of oppression, stratification, and invisibility. This catalog adopts the theme of 'refinement' and seeks to decolonize this notion through a juxtaposition of art and historical artifacts from the southeastern United States with Duval-Carri''s contemporary work.


Decolonizing and Indigenizing Visions of Educational Leadership

Decolonizing and Indigenizing Visions of Educational Leadership

Author: Njoki N. Wane

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-11-21

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1839824689

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This edited collection centres the reclamation of global counter and Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, and cosmovisions that have the capacity to create new educational leadership frameworks that chart courses to visions beyond the current oppressive systems of education.


Decolonizing Christianity

Decolonizing Christianity

Author: Darcie Fontaine

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1107118174

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This book traces Christianity's change from European imperialism's moral foundation to a voice of political and social change during decolonization.


Encyclopédie noire

Encyclopédie noire

Author: Sara E. Johnson

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2023-11-06

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1469676923

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If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau's achievements were predicated upon the work of enslaved people and free people of color. Their labor afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. Every beautiful book Moreau produced contains an embedded story of hidden violence. Sara Johnson's arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopedie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau's world.


Decolonizing Dialectics

Decolonizing Dialectics

Author: Geo Maher

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 082237370X

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Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism, and singular emphasis that some Marxisms place on class identity at the expense of race, nation, and popular identity. In recent decades, the conflict between dialectics and postcolonial theory has only deepened. In Decolonizing Dialectics Geo Maher breaks this impasse by bringing the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a dialectics suited to the struggle against the legacies of colonialism and slavery. This is a decolonized dialectics premised on constant struggle in which progress must be fought for and where the struggles of the wretched of the earth themselves provide the only guarantee of historical motion.


New Approach to Cultural Heritage

New Approach to Cultural Heritage

Author: Le Cheng

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9811652252

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This book addresses questions about theories of heritage, its methodologies of research, and where its boundaries lie with tourism, urban development, post-disaster recovery, collective identities, memory, or conflict. This book is a collection of heritage studies from a critical perspective as a product of the 2018 ACHS (Association of Critical Heritage Studies) Conference in Hangzhou, the largest conference of its kind in Asia. The contributors cover a wide spectrum of issues in heritage studies, such as heritage management, accessibility to heritage, heritage conservation and heritage policy, and heritage representation. It also examines the various contexts within which heritage emerges and how heritage is constructed within that context. Analyses are based on not only representations of heritage but also on the performativity. Explorations touch upon community involvement, landscape history, children’s literature, endangered food, architecture, advertisement, allotment garden, and gender and visual art. As heritage has always been a locus of contested verities, the book offers a variegated approach to heritage studies. It provides students and scholars new perspectives on heritage study.