Decolonizing Enlightenment

Decolonizing Enlightenment
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Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9783847403142
ISBN-13 : 3847403141
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Download or read book Decolonizing Enlightenment written by Nikita Dhawan and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do norms of justice, human rights and democracy enable disenfranchised communities? Or do they simply reinforce relations of domination between those who are constituted as dispensers of justice, rights and aid, and those who are coded as receivers? Critical race theorists, feminists and queer and postcolonial theorists confront these questions and offer critical perspectives.


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