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The decolonial bandwagon and the dangers of intellectual decolonisation
International Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-05-03 , DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1776919
Leon Moosavi 1
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ABSTRACT In recent years, ‘intellectual decolonisation’ has become so popular in the Global North that we can now speak of there being a ‘decolonial bandwagon’. This article identifies some of the common limitations that can be found in this growing field of intellectual decolonisation. First and foremost, it is suggested that intellectual decolonisation in the Global North may be characterised by Northerncentrism due to the way in which decolonial scholarship may ignore decolonial scholars from the Global South. In order to address this ‘decolonisation without decolonising’, this article offers an alternative genealogy of intellectual decolonisation by discussing some of the most important yet neglected decolonial theory from the Global South. Thereafter, five other common limitations which may appear in discussions about intellectual decolonisation are identified, which are: reducing intellectual decolonisation to a simple task; essentialising and appropriating the Global South; overlooking the multifaceted nature of marginalisation in academia; nativism; and tokenism. The objective of this article is to highlight common limitations which may be present in discussions about intellectual decolonisation so as to provide a warning that some manifestations of intellectual decolonisation may not only be inadequate but may even reinscribe coloniality.

中文翻译:

去殖民化的潮流和知识分子去殖民化的危险

摘要 近年来,“知识分子非殖民化”在全球北方变得如此流行,以至于我们现在可以说有一股“非殖民化潮流”。本文确定了在这个不断发展的知识分子非殖民化领域中可以找到的一些常见限制。首先,有人认为全球北方的知识分子非殖民化可能具有北方中心主义的特征,因为非殖民主义学术可能会忽视全球南方的非殖民化学者。为了解决这种“非殖民化而不是非殖民化”的问题,本文通过讨论全球南方一些最重要但被忽视的非殖民化理论,提供了另一种知识分子非殖民化的谱系。此后,确定了在有关知识分子非殖民化的讨论中可能出现的其他五个常见限制,它们是: 将知识分子非殖民化简化为一项简单的任务;对全球南方进行必要性和挪用;忽视学术界边缘化的多方面性质;本土主义;和象征主义。本文的目的是强调在关于知识分子非殖民化的讨论中可能存在的共同局限性,以提供警告,即知识分子非殖民化的某些表现形式不仅不充分,甚至可能重新描述殖民性。
更新日期:2020-05-03
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