On Decolonisation and the University
On Decolonisation and the University
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DOI：
10.1080/0950236x.2021.1929561
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2021-05-25
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0.3
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Gopal, Priyamvada
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作者：
Gopal, Priyamvada
“非殖民化”与位于英国和其他前殖民地中心的大学有关系吗？在广泛的肯定，这篇文章位于一个更广泛的历史和知识背景下的“非殖民化”的大都会大学的项目，同时划定这样的努力可能会抓住一些关键问题。它认为，“西方”大学可以领导越来越重要的历史自我理解的任务，在组成政治和社会的地缘政治“西方”。非殖民化是对“欧洲人”本身的修复，寻求理解和扩展关于它之外的文化和社区如何塑造“欧洲”的知识。根据反殖民主义思想----作为反殖民主义的理论和实践----对非殖民化的讨论进行重新构架，为它们提供了基础、分量和方向，使人们能够在创造另一个世界的更广阔视野中提出和回答丰富的问题。
Is 'decolonisation' relevant at all to the university situated in Britain and other former colonial centres? Answering broadly in the affirmative, this essay situates the project of 'decolonising' the metropolitan university within a wider historical and intellectual context while delineating some of the key questions such an endeavour might grapple with. It argues that 'Western' universities can lead the increasingly vital task of historical self-understanding in the constituent polities and societies of the geopolitical 'West'. Decolonisation is reparative of the 'European' itself, seeking to understand and to extend knowledge about how cultures and communities outside it have shaped 'Europe'. Reframing discussions of decolonisation in the light of anticolonial thought - as the theory and practice of anticolonialism - gives grounding, heft and direction to them, enabling rich questions to be posed and answered towards the wider horizon of making another world possible.