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dc.contributor.authorSimmons, Marlon-
dc.contributor.authorSefa Dei, George J.-
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-01T09:32:37Z-
dc.date.available2017-06-01T09:32:37Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.citationSimmons, Marlon & Sefa Dei, George J. (2012). Reframing anti-colonial theory for the diasporic context. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 1(1), 67-99.en_GB
dc.identifier.issn2304-5388-
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/19585-
dc.description.abstractIn teaching and dialoguing with students and colleagues we have on a number of occasions had to grapple with questions such as: What is the ‘anti-colonial’? How is this different from a ‘post-colonial’ approach? And how are we to articulate an anti-colonial prism as a way of thinking and making sense of current colonial relations and procedures of colonization? These are tough questions complicated by the apparent mainstream privileging and intellectual affection for the “post-colonial” over “anti-colonial”. This paper is purposively written to provoke a debate as a contestation of ideas of the current ‘post’ context. We are calling for a nuanced reading of what constitutes an intellectual subversive politics in the ongoing project of decolonization for both colonized and dominant bodies. We ask our readers to consider the possibilities of a counter theoretical narrative or conception of the present in ways that make theoretical sense of the everyday world of the colonized, racialized, oppressed and the Indigene. We bring a politicized reading to the present as a moment of practice, to claim and reclaim our understandings of identity in the present with implications for how we theorise a Diasporic identity. We challenge the intellectual seduction to equally flatten notions of identity and relations as simply fluid, in flux or something to be complicated/contested. We believe there is something that must not be lost in reclaiming past powerful notions regarding particularly the marginalized understandings of their identities for the present. Thus we revive anti-colonial discourse, building on early anticolonial thinking and practice. We are bringing a particular reading of the ‘colonial’ that is relevant to the present in which both nations, states and communities, as well as bodies and identities are engaged as still colonized and resisting the colonial encounter.en_GB
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dc.publisherPostcolonial Directions in Educationen_GB
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dc.subjectPostcolonialism -- Political aspectsen_GB
dc.subjectPostcolonialism -- Study and teachingen_GB
dc.subjectAnti-imperialist movementsen_GB
dc.titleReframing anti-colonial theory for the diasporic contexten_GB
dc.typearticleen_GB
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