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Decolonising Gender in South Asia (Hardcover)
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Decolonising Gender in South Asia (Hardcover)
Series: ThirdWorlds
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Decolonising Gender in South Asia is the first full-length
compilation of cutting-edge research on the challenging debates
around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. The
book elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside
the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity that is bound to the
European colonial project. Following Walter Mignolo, the book calls
for epistemic disobedience using border thinking as the necessary
condition for thinking decolonially. Borders in this case are
conceptualised not just as geographical borders of nation states,
they also signify the borders of modern/colonial world, epistemic
and ontological orders that the gendered and racialised populations
of ex-colonies inhabit. Dwelling, thinking and writing from these
borders create conditions of epistemic disobedience to
coloniality/modernity discourses of the West. The contributors to
this collection, all ethnic minority women from South Asia and the
South Asian diaspora, write from and about these borders that
challenge the colonial universality of thinking about gender. They
are writing from, and with, subalternised racial/ethnic/sexual
spaces and bodies located geographically in South Asia and South
Asian diasporic contexts. In this way, when coloniality/modernity
is shaping universalist understandings of gender, we are able to
use a broader canon of thought to produce a more pluriversal
understanding of the world. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.
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