Taking Back Decolonisation: Beyond Intellectual Protectionism

Описание: Were Steve Biko, Amílcar Cabral, Frantz Fanon, Paulin Hountondji and Kwasi Wiredu advocates of “decoloniality” in the same intellectual family line as Ramón Grosfoguel and Walter Mignolo today? No! says Kavish Chetty, in his latest uncompromising intervention. And it has been a self-serving conflation on the part of contemporary “decoloniality” writers to say that they were.

In a scintillating overview, Kavish Chetty shows us that one can recognize the need for intellectual decolonization without signing up to the extreme ethnorelativism championed by Walter Mignolo and the Coloniality/Modernity/Decoloniality franchise. Taking no prisoners, Kavish Chetty exhorts us to stand up to the intellectual form of protectionism the C/M/D clique seems to love.

He ends on a note of much needed hope, putting forward Ghanaian philosopher Kwasi Wiredu’s programme of “conceptual decolonization” as a far more balanced and insightful approach to the necessary task of undoing power’s distortive impact on concepts, values and beliefs.

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