@solarpunkpresents are there any Decolonizing Wealth Project folks active in the fediverse? Are there any ways we can help them use fediverse tools to support their work?
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@solarpunkpresents are there any Decolonizing Wealth Project folks active in the fediverse? Are there any ways we can help them use fediverse tools to support their work?
@strypey not sure! We did this interview before we created a Mastodon account and it wasn't on our radar, so it wasn't something we'd thought to ask or search out. Wish we could be more helpful that way...
"Decolonisation is sometimes presented, not as an attempt to resurrect the dispassionate search for knowledge, but as a rejection of the idea of objectivity, which is seen as a sort of heritage of colonial thinking.
[but]
One can reject universal truths without endorsing relativism."
#AlexBroadbent, University of Johannesburg, 2017
@strypey 'If curricula and ideas and knowledge are colonised, that means they have been shaped in part by considerations that are political, economic, social, cultural or otherwise tangential to the ideals of academic inquiry. '
WTAF is this rubbish?
Politics, economics, sociology and cultural studies are all areas of academic inquiry, not things that are tangential to its ideals
Given that most things that aren't covered by the above areas are affected by them - arts, science, literature, technology, history, etc - by virtue of the fact that they exist with societies that are shaped by political, economic and cultural forces, I'm left struggling to grasp what this moron is trying to say.
@sy
> I'm left struggling to grasp what this moron is trying to say
> I'm left struggling to grasp what this moron is trying to say
I'm guessing you're feeling really challenged by this article, and inclined to defend whatever you think is being attacked. I suspect that defensive impulse is worth unpacking a bit, to see what might be in there driving it. I'll leave you to it.
@strypey @sy to be fair it was a dreadful article for some one who has not "drunk the koolaid"
> Decolonisation is sometimes presented.... as a rejection of the idea of objectivity, which is seen as a sort of heritage of colonial thinking.
The article does nothing to dispel that. "Objectivity" is central to the identity of western intellectual traditions (I only really know that tradition) and is mostly misunderstood
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@worik
> The article does nothing to dispel that
Oh it absolutely does.
> "Objectivity" is central to the identity of western intellectual traditions
That in itself is a colonial idea. Every culture is capable of discovering and utilising knowledge frameworks like "objectivity". As the article says, about half way down, decolonising knowledge has nothing to do with the absolute relativism of the postmodernists.
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