The Politics of Cultural Knowledge

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The advent and implementation of European colonialism have disrupted innumerable epistemological geographies around the globe. Countless cultural ways of knowing and local educational practices have in some way been displaced and dislocated within the universalizing project of the Euro-Colonial Empire. This book revisits the colonial relations of culture and education, questions various embedded imperial procedures and extricates the strategic offerings of local ways of knowing which resisted colonial imposition. The contributors of this collection are concerned with the ways in which colonial education forms the governing edict for local peoples. In The Politics of Cultural Knowledge, the authors offer an alternative reading of conventional discussions of culture and what counts as knowledge concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, identity, and difference in the context of the Diaspora.
In The Politics of Cultural Knowledge, Wane, Kempf and Simmons have put together a much-needed reader that could achieve the critical reconstructions for the timely re-voice-ing of anti-colonial and Indigenous knowledge systems that introspectively and deeply mediate the lives of people. It is a comprehensive, multi-locational, well-structured work that should represent an important milestone in harnessing the long-awaited inclusive epistemological platforms that must teach, empower and inspire those who seek different cultural ways of knowing.

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Introduction
The Politics of Cultural Knowledge
Pages: 1–6
African Indigenous Feminist Thought
An Anti-Colonial Project
Pages: 7–21
Circulating Western Notions
Implicating Myself in the Transnational Traffic of ‘Progress’ and Commodities
Pages: 23–36
The Race to Modernity
Understanding Culture Through the Diasporic-Self
Pages: 37–50
North African Knowledges and the Western Classroom
Situating Selected Literature
Pages: 93–110
A Conversation About Conversations
Dialogue Based Methodology and HIV/AIDS In Southern Africa
Pages: 121–136
The Politics of African Development
Conversations with Women from Rural Kenya
Pages: 137–153
Conclusion
Pages: 155–160
The Politics of Cultural Knowledge should immensely benefit students and researchers in the social sciences, education and those in cultural, and linguistic studies.
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