Immutable: Beyond Eurocentrism: Reflecting Postcolonial Perspectives Then and Now. Part 2 Session 12 of the digital lecture series „Decolonizing Anthropology: A Self-Critical Appraisal of the Current State of Research and Teaching"; German speaking departments of social and cultural anthropology.
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Title
Beyond Eurocentrism: Reflecting Postcolonial Perspectives Then and Now. Part 2 Session 12 of the digital lecture series „Decolonizing Anthropology: A Self-Critical Appraisal of the Current State of Research and Teaching"; German speaking departments of social and cultural anthropology.
Editor
boasblogs
Other contributor
Flader, Ulrike
Publishing institution
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Date of publication
11 July 2024
Terms of use
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Namensnennung + nicht kommerziell + keine Bearbeitung
Abstract
The aim of this event is to engage with and learn from past efforts in critical self-reflection into the discipline’s colonial entanglement and attempts to re-envisage epistemological and methodological approaches to anthropology that tackle eurocentric biases and colonial continuities. An early attempt was the publication of the volume ‘Jenseits des Eurozentrismus. Postkoloniale Perspektiven in den Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften’, co-edited by Sebastian Conrad and Shalini Randeria. The book – first published in 2002 and revised in 2013 – was extremely influential in bringing the postcolonial debate to a broad German-speaking readership across many disciplines.
In conversation with Shalini Randeria (CEU), this event aims at revisiting the key intentions and challenges of introducing these perspectives to the debate in Germany. We will ask what it actually means to think beyond eurocentrism and engaging in an anthropology that is cognizant of entangled histories of modernity, and what key conceptual and methodological challenges these entail for ‘decolonizing’ anthropology. Furthermore, we will discuss the current state of postcolonial critique admidst the rise of the far-right and authoritarian “anti-intellectualism” (Fassin 2024).
Keywords
Decolonizing Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Social Anthropology
Decolonization
History of Ideas
Epistemology
Eurocentrism
Postcoloniality
GND Keywords
Sozialanthropologie 4129436-1
Kulturanthropologie 4133903-4
Ideengeschichte 4138031-9
Wissenschaftstheorie 4117665-0
Methodologie 4139716-2
Postkolonialismus 4566658-1
Entkolonisierung 4070860-3
Eurozentrismus 4200132-8
Ethnologie 4078931-7
DDC
301 Soziologie und Anthropologie, 306 Kultur und Institutionen, 325 Internationale Migration und Kolonisation, 378 Hochschulbildung (Tertiärbereich), 909 Weltgeschichte
RVK
LB 31000
LB 53000
Language
eng
Publication type
MovingImage
File format
MP4
Publisher DOI
Duration
01:04:45