149770Against Decolonizationhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/against-decolonization-2/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1768610/faae4f0f-c219-4236-b6ce-efc3ca17b47b.jpg?v=638338908868330000410410MXNGandhiInStock/Audiolibros/Decolonization has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the Wests direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing "morality" or "authenticity;" it suffocates African thought and denies African agency.Olúfemi Táíw fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of decolonization to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonization industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds decolonization of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global societys foundations. Worst of all, todays movement attacks its own cause: "decolorizers" themselves are disregarding, infantilizing and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers.This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether todays decolonization truly serves African empowerment. Táíws is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesizers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant....149801Against Decolonization410410https://www.gandhi.com.mx/against-decolonization-2/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1768610/faae4f0f-c219-4236-b6ce-efc3ca17b47b.jpg?v=638338908868330000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20239798765097045_W3siaWQiOiIxM2Y0N2NkOC00ODNlLTQxM2EtYTZjYy1jY2MzNjlhNDAxMmEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQwMCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6NDAwLCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNC0xMi0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlLCJpc0VsaWdpYmxlRm9yQ3JlZGl0VHJpYWwiOnRydWUsImNyZWRpdFB1cmNoYXNlUHJpY2UiOjF9XQ==9798765097045_Decolonization has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the Wests direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing "morality" or "authenticity;" it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. Olúfemi Táiw fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of decolonization to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonization industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds decolonization of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global societys foundations. Worst of all, todays movement attacks its own cause: "decolorizers" themselves are disregarding, infantilizing and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether todays decolonization truly serves African empowerment. Táiws is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesizers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant....9798765097045_Tantor Media, Inc.audiolibro_17068ab0-df70-314b-a164-d0d72578e4c5_9798765097045;9798765097045_9798765097045Olúfmi TáíwInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2023-06-13T00:00:00+00:00Tantor Media, Inc.