Theory and Praxis - 9780367408039

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Theory and PraxisReflections on the Colonization of Knowledge\nAuthor(s): Murzban Jal, Jyoti Bawane\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9780367408039, 978-0367408039\nSynopsis\nThis book proposes a New Enlightenment a new way of looking at the non-Western world. Breaking new ground, the essays chart a course beyond Eurocentric discourses (which completely ignore the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin-America) and forms of nativism (which are usually ethnocentric discourses). \n\nThe volume: \n\nFocuses on the historical aspects of knowledge-production and its colonization; \n\nExamines the genre of multilinear histories that displaces hegemonic Eurocentric discourses; \n\nEnlarges the scope of multilinear historicism whereby Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas are drawn in a new humanistic knowledge system;\n\nStudies how colonization is resisted in both the non-Western and Western world.\n\nLucid and enga.