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Traditionally, any scholarship that does not convey the white dominant order of knowledge has been continuously rejected on the grounds that it does not constitute credible science. Such a fact reveals the inadequacy of dominant scholarship in relating not only to marginalized subjects, but also to their experiences, discourses and theorizations. Science is, in this sense, not a simple apolitical study of truth, but the result of unequal power ‘race’ and gender relations, which define what counts as true and in whom to believe. What knowledge has been made part of academic agendas? And what knowledge has not? What knowledge is acknowledged as such? And what knowledge is not? Whose knowledge is this? Who is acknowledged to have the knowledge? And who is not? Who can teach knowledge? And who cannot?
In this course we will explore the complex intersection between ‘race’, gender, knowledge and Space Politics; the dialectic of Speaking and Silencing; Visibility and Invisibility; the notions of denial, projection, and exclusion within post-colonialism; scholarship, language, and racism, using Black Feminist thought, Post-colonial studies, Critical Whiteness and Psychoanalysis. We will approach forms of decolonizing knowledge production, language and aesthetics. |
