On Gnosis and the Imaginary of the Modern/Colonial World System
On Gnosis and the Imaginary of the Modern/Colonial World System
This introductory chapter aims to move subjugated knowledge to the limits of the colonial difference where subjugated become subaltern knowledges in the structure of coloniality of power. It conceives subaltern knowledges in tandem with Occidentalism as the overarching imaginary of the modern/colonial world system: Occidentalism is the visible face in the building of the modern world, whereas subaltern knowledges are its darker side, the colonial side of modernity. This very notion of subaltern knowledges makes visible the colonial difference between anthropologists in the First World “studying” the Third World and “anthropologians” in the Third World reflecting on their own geohistorical and colonial conditions.
Keywords: colonial difference, subaltern knowledges, power, Occidentalism, modern colonial world, anthropologists, anthropologians
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