Coloniality of knowledge

Coloniality of knowledge

sociological concept

Coloniality of knowledge be a concept wey Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano develop wey he adapt to contemporary decolonial thinking. De concept dey critique wat proponents call de Eurocentric system of knowledge, wey dem dey argue de legacy of colonialism dey survive within de domains of knowledge. For decolonial scholars, de coloniality of knowledge be central to de functioning of de coloniality of power wey e be responsible for turning colonial subjects into victims of de coloniality of being, a term wey dey refer to de lived experiences of colonized peoples.

Origin and development

Fregoso Bailón den De Lissovoy dey argue say Hatuey, a Taíno warrior wey komot La Española (wich dey contain Haiti den de Dominican Republic), na dem be among de first to recognize "Western knowledge as a colonial discourse". Wey Hatuey inspire, na Antonio de Montesinos begin ein career as an educator insyd 1511, teaching Bartolomé de las Casas critical thinking.

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Read further

• Angel Baquero, Sergio; Caicedo Ortiz, Julián Andrés; Rico Noguera, Juan Carlos (2015-09-01). "Coloniality of Knowledge and Social Science: A Methodology to Apprehend the Imaginaries". Análisis Político. 28 (85). Universidad Nacional de Colombia: 76–92. doi:10.15446/anpol.v28n85.56248. ISSN 0121-4705.
• Lowe, Lisa; Manjapra, Kris (2019). "Comparative Global Humanities After Man: Alternatives to the Coloniality of Knowledge". Theory, Culture & Society. 36 (5). SAGE Publications: 23–48. doi:10.1177/0263276419854795. ISSN 0263-2764. S2CID 199779277.
• Keating, Clara (2019). "Coloniality of knowledge, Ch'ixinakax utxiwa, and intercultural translation". Language, Culture and Society. 1 (1). John Benjamins Publishing Company: 141–146. doi:10.1075/lcs.00010.kea. hdl:10316/87009. ISSN 2543-3164. S2CID 150766677.
• Krabbe, Julia Suárez (2009). "Introduction: Coloniality of Knowledge and Epistemologies of Transformation". KULT. Postkolonial Temaserie. 6 (Special Issue): 1–10. ISSN 1904-1594.
• Pickren, Wade E. (2020). "Coloniality of being and knowledge in the history of psychology". Psychologie und Kritik. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 329–343. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-29486-1_15. ISBN 978-3-658-29485-4. S2CID 214552628.
• Mpofu, William Jethro (2017). "Coloniality in the Scramble for African Knowledge: A Decolonial Political Perspective". Africanus. 43 (2). UNISA Press: 105–117. doi:10.25159/0304-615x/2305. ISSN 2663-6522.
• Schubring, Gert (2021). "On processes of coloniality and decoloniality of knowledge: notions for analysing the international history of mathematics teaching". ZDM Mathematics Education. 53 (7). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 1455–1469. doi:10.1007/s11858-021-01261-2. ISSN 1863-9690. S2CID 236565723.
• Tlostanova, Madina (2015). "Can the post-Soviet think? On coloniality of knowledge, external imperial and double colonial difference". Intersections. 1 (2). doi:10.17356/ieejsp.v1i2.38. ISSN 2416-089X.

External links

• Coloniality of Knowledge — University of Rostock
• What Fundamentally is Coloniality of Knowledge? — The Sunday News
• Giving testimony and the coloniality of knowledge — International Association for Women Philosophers