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- Convenors:
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Diego Ballestero
(Universität Bonn)
Erik Petschelies (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
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- Format:
- Panel
Short Abstract:
This panel explores the decolonial perspective as a tool for "unwriting" Western hegemony in anthropology. It invites critiques of dominant epistemic structures, innovative approaches to pluriversal anthropology, and reflections on decolonizing practices in both academia and the field.
Long Abstract:
The genealogy of Anthropology, inextricably linked to the modern/colonial project, has been complicit in the perpetuation and naturalisation of global hierarchies of knowledge. This complicity manifests itself not only in the selection of study objects and methodologies, but also in the very conceptual architecture of the discipline. Despite the various critical turns that have shaken its foundations -interpretive, reflective, ontological-, Anthropology continues to operate within epistemological frameworks that privilege Western forms of knowledge production and validation.
This panel explores the transformative potential of the decolonial perspective as a tool for ‘unwriting’ Western hegemony in the production and circulation of anthropological knowledge. This ‘unwriting’ implies, on the one hand, the deconstruction of the narratives that have shaped the anthropological imaginary; on the other hand, the creation of liminal spaces from which border epistemologies and subalternised knowledge emerge.
This panel/workshop invites contributions that articulate an incisive critique of the dominant epistemic structures in anthropology, that propose innovative ways to re-imagine a pluriversal anthropology, that make visible and analyse subalternised histories, subjectivities, agencies and memories in the production of anthropological knowledge, that explore dialogues between intellectual and political projects from different latitudes, that reflect on the historical complicity of anthropology with colonial power structures, and that present concrete experiences for the decolonisation of anthropological practices, both in academia and in the field.
This Panel has so far received 2 paper proposal(s).
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