Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge
Subtitle: Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Feb 13, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781137292889
Description: This collection is an interdisciplinary effort drawing on the work of international scholars and political activists. It addresses key questions in the critique of Eurocentrism and racism regarding debates on the production and sedimentation of knowledge, historical narratives and memories in Europe and the Americas. By conceiving Eurocentrism as a paradigm of interpretation, and race as the key principle of the modern order, the authors bring the relation between knowledge and power to the centre of debate. The book invites to consider institutionalized violence as pervading the regulation of the heterogeneity of (post-)colonial territories and peoples, and to see the politics of knowledge production as a struggle for power seeking profound change. At the heart of this collective endeavour is the long history of international and domestic liberation politics and thought, as well as academic and political reaction through formulas of accommodation that re-centre the West.
Notes: Source title: Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge: Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas