Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities: An Anti-Elitism Manifesto Reiter Bernd
Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities: An Anti-Elitism Manifesto Reiter Bernd In Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities Bernd Reiter contributes to the ongoing efforts to…
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Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities: An Anti-Elitism Manifesto Reiter Bernd
In Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities Bernd Reiter contributes to the ongoing efforts to decolonize the social sciences and humanities, by arguing that true decolonization implies a liberation from the elite culture that Western civilization has perpetually promoted.Reiter brings together lessons learned from field research on a Colombian indigenous society, a maroon society, also in Colombia, from Afro-Brazilian religion, from Spanish Anarchism, and from German Council democracy, and from analyzing non-Western ontologies and epistemologies in general. The chapters present the case that human beings are able to rule themselves, and have done so for some 300,000 years, before the Neolithic Revolution. He claims that once these lessons are absorbed, it becomes clear that Western civilization has advanced individualization and elitism.
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