Decolonizing what? Categories, concepts and the enduring 'not yet'

dc.contributor.authorAshar, Meera
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:29:57Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.date.updated2020-12-27T07:36:18Z
dc.description.abstractWhat does it mean to decolonize? At one level, decolonization refers to the attainment of political sovereignty. The transfer of power from colonial to regional and indigenous authorities, however, also involves a handover of political forms and institutions. This process leaves behind some of the narratives that accompany coloniality, even if refashioned versions of these. This enduring coloniality resides within and proliferates through the categories of political discourse. In India, we may find its continual hum in tirades against ‘corruption’ or in laments that Indians lack a ‘civic sense’. The decolonial project, having found expression in nationalist movements, in political and epistemic resistance, and in reform and revival, therefore continues to be undertaken in the language of coloniality, which obscures all that resides outside the colonial worldview.
dc.identifier.issn0921-3740
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/34293
dc.publisherSage Publications Inc
dc.sourceCultural Dynamics: Theory Cross-Cultures
dc.titleDecolonizing what? Categories, concepts and the enduring 'not yet'
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage265
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage253
local.contributor.affiliationAshar, Meera, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu5248505@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidAshar, Meera, u5248505
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160806 - Social Theory
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5025248xPUB111
local.identifier.citationvolume27
local.identifier.doi10.1177/0921374015585231
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84936855504
local.identifier.thomsonID000363893900007
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu5025248
local.type.statusPublished Version

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