Whither Epistemic Decolonization

Matolino, Bernard

doi:10.1080/05568641.2020.1779605

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“…The words of caution in this section are based on Bernard Matolino's critique of the decolonization project which he presents in his paper, Wither Epistemic Decolonization. 145 Though Matolino's critique is specifically centered around decolonization in an African context, I will argue that his concerns bring to light some aspects of decolonization in general that we must bear in mind in any context in which the project of decolonization is taken up.…”

Section: Issues With Decolonizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a similar vein, Hegel's historical account of Spirit, which is fully realized through reason and freedom, places the west as the epitome of the Absolute Spirit. 125 The upshot is that the presumed superiority of the west was "sponsored by some of the most respected and pioneering figures of western philosophy who sought to attach some semblance of sophisticated proofs their wayward views on the hierarchy of races," 126 which brings us to the question:…”

Section: Philosophical Theoriesmentioning

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Asking the Buddha for Help: Overcoming the Bifurcation and Coloniality of Philosophy Through an Engagement With the Madhyamaka Tradition

Marquez Leon

2024

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This thesis seeks to address two pressing issues. The first is philosophy’s bifurcation. Contemporary philosophy, having been stripped of the spiritual exercises so central to its Ancient traditions, has been reduced to mere discourse. This thesis aims to explore the Buddha’s teachings for potential methodological insights—specifically looking at how the Madhyamaka tradition relates to the teachings of the Buddha—that may establish philosophy as a way of life, along with its spiritual exercises, as an option open to us today, as well as elaborating on what that option looks like for contemporary philosophy. The second issue relates to the centrality of reason in modern Western philosophy, which, while it a consequence of its encounter with Christianity, also played an important role in the consistent dismissing of non-western traditions as non-philosophical on the grounds that they are insufficiently committed to the standards of rational enquiry. By understanding the significant role that reason takes on in the Prasangika Madhyamaka approach, the aim will be to question the ‘divine reason’ construct so central to contemporary Western philosophy’s self-understanding and expose the ways it is particular to the European milieu.

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Section: Issues With Decolonizationmentioning

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Asking the Buddha for Help: Overcoming the Bifurcation and Coloniality of Philosophy Through an Engagement With the Madhyamaka Tradition

Marquez Leon

2024

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“…Upon this perspective, various authors argue for the centrality of African languages (as carriers of knowledge) as a medium of instruction in the quest to decolonise African universities (Chimakonam, 2017;Mitova, 2020;Wa Thiong'o, 1998). Thus, epistemic decolonisation could be seen as having the potential for either the end of the anticolonial fight or the self-discovery of those colonised and oppressed in the past (Matolino, 2020;Kessi et al, 2021).…”

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Reflections on Decolonising of Medium of Instruction at South African Universities

Mutongoza,

Mutanho,

Linake

et al. 2023

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The 2015/6 #Rhodes Must Fall student protest reignited the debate to decolonise higher education in South Africa and many parts of the world. One way of achieving this is through decolonising the language of teaching and learning in higher education to increase access. Within this caveat, we anticipate that this article will add a crucial contribution to contemporary international and local debates on decolonising the medium of instruction by providing evidence from South African institutions’ unique challenges and prospects associated with the quest to deliver quality decolonised education. While tremendous strides have been made in expressing the constitutional right of every learner to receive primary education in a language of their choice, at the university level, the development and implementation of inclusive language policies have been dismal at best. With the demise of the apartheid regime that significantly stifled African languages in South Africa, one could have hoped for changes in attitude and language usage in universities, mainly because universities still have discernible remnants of the apartheid legacy. This article highlights the urgent need for decolonising South African higher education, particularly concerning using English as the medium of instruction. We further hope that this study will benefit practitioners and stakeholders involved in formulating language policies at their respective learning institutions and prompt them to treat the decolonisation process with befitting urgency.

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“…By building a more inclusive and diverse epistemic framework, the revitalisation of fractured socio-epistemology as disintegrated knowledge system through its contact with the dominant epistemic system holds the potential for members of socially marginalised groups to rethink the dark legacy of understanding the natural and cultural opposition, and its means epistemic colonialism embedded on cultural behavior can be revised to experience the real situation following "critical condition emergence" without depending on Euro-Anthropocene centric. Matolino (2020) argues that there is no 'purification' of epistemic decolonisation because colonialism and slavery are historical facts that cannot be denied and the hybridisation of knowledge sources has come into contact with each other either directly or indirectly. It then resulted in the question of the locus of a pure form of knowledge of the traditional culture since there is no amount of theorisation on epistemic decolonisation in ensuring our true identity.…”

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Rethinking “Decoloniality and Futurity” for the Anthropocene: A Speculative Spectrality

Mahaswa

2023

Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities

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<p class="Abstract">What is this thing called the Anthropocene? The Anthropocene is a strange thing. It is interesting conceptually, fascinating scientifically, and critically intriguing for our understanding when experiencing the borderless uncanny world-earth meeting. If an ontological uncanny of natural crisis time represents the promise of [M]odernity, which civilisation has altered nature, even colonised Earth into terra incognita circumstances and catastrophic possibilities simultaneously. The word ‘decolonisation’ of Anthropocene means ignoring the role of the world-colonialism system and creating the worlding conditions after modernity progress. However, the objections of the Anthropocene do not separate calamities based on ideology, political movement, social class, cultural local-wisdom, or even philosophical doctrine. In the eye of a geological epoch, human is being objects at the same time. For example, after the Great Acceleration event, people unconsciously produced a new planetary risk through rapid uncontrolled population growth, advanced post-capitalism industrialisation, and other unseen anthropogenic activities. Should [All] Humans be responsible for mass extinction and be wise in adapting near planetary future? The answer is open-ended because all of us are always possible contributors to anthropogenic wastes, even in small amounts, as non-neutrality accumulation. So, we cannot really hide in the image of the decolonisation of the Anthropocene, although it challenges Western thought categories about geophysical force and geopolitical agents in postcolonial view. It has never been (geo) decolonised—dwelling on the Earth—but we are only possible to decolonise our humanity. The limitation of our perception grasps the real-uncertainty-materiality world, breaking the wall of narcissistic self-exceptionalism. Conceptually, decentering subject helps us feel the strangeness of non-human entities, opening a more-than-human possible world. Additionally, (re)questioning the status of ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene is critically important to remind us that it is part of our concern to consider the prospect of new interrelations between human and non-human. To do so, the recent revival of new weird materialism and speculative turn can open up the context of agency and materiality in the global Anthropocene.<o:p></o:p></p>

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Whither Epistemic Decolonization

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Asking the Buddha for Help: Overcoming the Bifurcation and Coloniality of Philosophy Through an Engagement With the Madhyamaka Tradition

Asking the Buddha for Help: Overcoming the Bifurcation and Coloniality of Philosophy Through an Engagement With the Madhyamaka Tradition

Reflections on Decolonising of Medium of Instruction at South African Universities

Rethinking “Decoloniality and Futurity” for the Anthropocene: A Speculative Spectrality

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