Beyond the Master's Tools?: Decolonizing Knowledge Orders, Research Methods and Teaching (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions) - Hardcover

Bendix, Daniel; Müller, Franziska

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178661359X ISBN 13: 9781786613592

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020

Synopsis

This book provides a compendium of strategies for decolonizing global knowledge orders, research methodology and teaching in the social sciences. The volume presents recent work on epistemological critique informed by postcolonial thought, and outlines strategies for actively decolonizing social science methodology and learning/teaching environments that will be of great utility to IR and other academic fields that examine global order. The volume focuses on the decolonization of intellectual history in the social sciences, followed by contributions on social science methodology and lastly more practical suggestions for educational/didactical approaches in academic teaching. The book is not confined to the classical format of research articles but moves beyond such boundaries by bringing in spoken word and interviews with scholar-activists. Overall this volume enables researchers to practice a reflexive and situated knowledge production more suitable to confronting present-day global predicaments. The perspectives mobilise a constructive critique, but also allow for a reconstruction of methodologies and methods in ways that open up new lenses, new archives of knowledges and reconsider the who, the how and the what of the craft of social science research into global order.

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About the Author

Daniel Bendix is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Development and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kassel, Germany.



Franziska Müller is a research group leader at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Kassel, Germany.



Aram Ziai holds the Heisenberg chair for Development and Postcolonial Studies at the Institute of Political Science in Kassel, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178661359X
• ISBN 13: 9781786613592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286