Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"... looking at the roots of our wealth broadly, globally, and looking at the ways that we relate, especially in the field of global aid ... who's making decisions in that space and what are they for? We can think about philanthro-capitalism ... leveraging philanthropy to perpetuate a lot of the harm in our society."

, Decolonizing Wealth Project

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"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."

, University of Johannesburg, 2017

theconversation.com/it-will-ta

Sy Taffel
@sy@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@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.
Worik
@worik@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@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
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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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.

@sy

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