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Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades. This groundbreaking volume offers not only an anthropology of decolonization, but new ways of thinking about the relationship between anthropology and colonialism, and how we might move beyond colonialism's troubling legacy, particularly in the metropole.

Soumhya Venkatesan argues that the word decolonization' is simultaneously too broad and too narrow. In compelling prose, she describes the work already underway and the work still needed in research, writing and teaching to extend the horizons of the discipline. She explores a range of concepts including Achille Mbembe's disenclosure, Cheryl Mattingly's moral experiments, Miranda Fricker's epistemic justice, and Gurminder Bhambra's epistemological justice, and domestication. Throughout, she emphasises the potential of ethnography as a way of both knowing diverse worlds and of beingwithothers in them.

Rich with insights from a range of fields,Dec

Decolonizing Anthropology

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 1/29/2024
      ISBN-13 9781509540594
      978-1509540594
      ISBN-10 1509540598
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      Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades. This groundbreaking volume offers not only an anthropology of decolonization, but new ways of thinking about the relationship between anthropology and colonialism, and how we might move beyond colonialism's troubling legacy, particularly in the metropole.

      Soumhya Venkatesan argues that the word decolonization' is simultaneously too broad and too narrow. In compelling prose, she describes the work already underway and the work still needed in research, writing and teaching to extend the horizons of the discipline. She explores a range of concepts including Achille Mbembe's disenclosure, Cheryl Mattingly's moral experiments, Miranda Fricker's epistemic justice, and Gurminder Bhambra's epistemological justice, and domestication. Throughout, she emphasises the potential of ethnography as a way of both knowing diverse worlds and of beingwithothers in them.

      Rich with insights from a range of fields,Dec

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