The advent and implementation of European colonialism have disrupted innumerable epistemological geographies around the globe. Countless cultural ways of knowing and local educational practices have in some way been displaced and dislocated within the universalizing project of the Euro-Colonial Empire. This book revisits the colonial relations of culture and education, questions various embedded imperial procedures and extricates the strategic offerings of local ways of knowing which resisted colonial imposition. The contributors of this collection are concerned with the ways in which colonial education forms the governing edict for local peoples. In The Politics of Cultural Knowledge, the authors offer an alternative reading of conventional discussions of culture and what counts as knowledge concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, identity, and difference in the context of the Diaspora.

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Acknowledgements;Foreword;1. Introduction: The Politics of Cultural Knowledge;2. African Indigenous Feminist Thought: An Anti-Colonial Project;3. Circulating Western Notions: Implicating Myself in the Transnational Traffic of 'Progress' and Commodities;4. The Race to Modernity: Understanding Culture Through the Diasporic-Self;5. Remembering the 1947 Partition of India Through the Voices of Second Generation Punjabi Women;6. Moving Beyond Neo-Colonialism to Ubuntu Governance;7. Being Part of the Cultural Chain;8. North African Knowledges and the Western Classroom: Situating Selected Literature;9. What Might We Learn if We Silence the Colonial Voice?: Finding Our Own Keys;10. A Conversation About Conversations: Dialogue Based Methodology and HIV/AIDS In Southern Africa;11. The Politics of African Development: Conversations with Women from Rural Kenya;12. Conclusion;Notes On Contributors