Moving beyond the canon: Reflections of a young African scholar of political theory
| Autor: | Ayesha Omar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Systems theory in political science 050601 international relations 0506 political science Education Epistemology Law 050602 political science & public administration International political economy Political culture Foreign policy analysis Ideology Political philosophy Sociology Eurocentrism Social theory media_common |
| Zdroj: | Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. 15:153-159 |
| ISSN: | 1741-265X 1474-0222 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1474022215613597 |
| Popis: | In this short paper, I reflect on the issue of what the decolonisation of political theory might constitute. I consider what it would mean to deparochialise and decolonise political theory for it is within the discipline of political theory, that a charge of eurocentrism is particularly valid. First, this is because what we teach and study as African political theorists merely perpetuates the idea that thinking and theorising around the normative questions of politics has traditionally been a Western dominated concern. Second, it is because it is within the discipline of political theory, that a eurocentrism of ideas is more apparent and evident as opposed to elsewhere in political science as both our research and pedagogical objectives have been confined almost exclusively to the Western ‘canon’. |
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