Theory and Praxis

<p>This book proposes a New Enlightenment – a new way of looking at the non-Western world. Breaking new ground, the essays chart a course beyond Eurocentric discourses (which completely ignore the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin-America) and forms of nativism (which are usually ethnocentric discourses). </p><p>The volume: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Focuses on the historical aspects of knowledge-production and its colonization; </li> <p> </p> <li>Examines the genre of multilinear histories that displaces hegemonic Eurocentric discourses; </li> <p> </p> <li>Enlarges the scope of multilinear historicism whereby Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas are drawn in a new humanistic knowledge system;</li> <p> </p> <li>Studies how colonization is resisted in both the non-Western and Western world.</li> </ul><p>Lucid and engaging, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social theory, education, politics and public policy.</p>