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Fall 2021: Alternative Epistemologies: Is there an alternative to the European framework?

Affiliations:
Project Leader: Jyothis James
jyothis@tamu.edu
Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: Jaima, Amir PhD; Howard, Nathan PhD; Brady, Emily PhD
Meeting Times:
TBD
Team Size:
5
Open Spots: 0
Special Opportunities:
I expect students to be able to investigate a project that will be either presented at a conference or sent in for publication
Team Needs:
I need people who are tech savvy or familiar with coding.
Description:
In the United States, the Black Lives Matter protests have investigated possibilities of seeing and being in the world outside the Western framework. But are these “alternative” ways of being genuinely free of the pitfalls of Western thought?
People in Black Africa and her diaspora have generated anti-colonial strategies from indigenous languages and ways of being.
People in the Americas have developed anti-colonial strategies from indigenous languages and practices.
People in the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania have generated anti-colonial methods from indigenous languages and lifestyles in response to European domination.
These approaches are seen as too strange or impractical when framed next to the familiar European notions of protests, liberalism, Marxism, anarchism, etc. Are there commonalities in anti-colonial strategies rooted in non-European schools of thought? If so, what are they, and what can we apply from them?

 

Written by:
Andrew McNeely
Published on:
August 24, 2021

Categories: FullTags: Fall 2021

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