Theory and Praxis: Reflections on the Colonization of Knowledge

This book proposes a New Enlightenment – a new way of looking at the non-Western world. Breaking new ground, the essays chart a course beyond Eurocentric discourses (which completely ignore the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin-America) and forms of nativism (which are usually ethnocentric discourses).

The volume:

• Focuses on the historical aspects of knowledge-production and its colonization;











• Examines the genre of multilinear histories that displaces hegemonic Eurocentric discour...