Fugitive Knowledge

Encounters between cultures are also encounters between knowledge systems. This volume brings together a number of case studies that explore how some knowledge in cultural contact zones becomes transient, evanescent, and ephemeral. The essays examine various aspects of cultural, especially colonial,...

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description Encounters between cultures are also encounters between knowledge systems. This volume brings together a number of case studies that explore how some knowledge in cultural contact zones becomes transient, evanescent, and ephemeral. The essays examine various aspects of cultural, especially colonial, epistemic exchanges, placing special emphasis on the fate of those knowledges that are not easily appropriated by or translated from one cultural sphere into another and thus remain at the margins of cross-cultural exchanges. In addition, the imposition of colonial power is unthinkable without the strategic deployment and use of knowledge; most colonial states, including those of Germany in the Baltic and in West Africa, were knowledge-acquiring machines – yet, acquisition always includes rejection, detainment and subjugation of recalcitrant epistemes. Bringing together insights from various scholarly disciplines, including literary studies, history, historical anthropology, and political science, the essays in this volume investigate how different or unfamiliar knowledge was, and in some cases still is, disarticulated by being belittled, discredited, and demonized. But they also show the strategies of resilience deployed by subjugated and subaltern people: the ways in which certain materials have escaped the coloniality of knowledge – how fragments and shards of other epistemologies remain inscribed in the polyphony and fuzziness of intercultural documents and archives.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-975062024-04-04T14:41:33Z Fugitive Knowledge Beer, Andreas Mackenthun, Gesa Kulturkontakt Wissensgeschichte Wissensarchiv Kolonialismus Imperialismus Postcolonial Studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government Encounters between cultures are also encounters between knowledge systems. This volume brings together a number of case studies that explore how some knowledge in cultural contact zones becomes transient, evanescent, and ephemeral. The essays examine various aspects of cultural, especially colonial, epistemic exchanges, placing special emphasis on the fate of those knowledges that are not easily appropriated by or translated from one cultural sphere into another and thus remain at the margins of cross-cultural exchanges. In addition, the imposition of colonial power is unthinkable without the strategic deployment and use of knowledge; most colonial states, including those of Germany in the Baltic and in West Africa, were knowledge-acquiring machines – yet, acquisition always includes rejection, detainment and subjugation of recalcitrant epistemes. Bringing together insights from various scholarly disciplines, including literary studies, history, historical anthropology, and political science, the essays in this volume investigate how different or unfamiliar knowledge was, and in some cases still is, disarticulated by being belittled, discredited, and demonized. But they also show the strategies of resilience deployed by subjugated and subaltern people: the ways in which certain materials have escaped the coloniality of knowledge – how fragments and shards of other epistemologies remain inscribed in the polyphony and fuzziness of intercultural documents and archives. Published 2023-02-22T11:23:44Z 2023-02-22T11:23:44Z 2015-08-21 book 9783830932819 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/97506 eng Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://www.waxmann.com/buch3281 https://www.waxmann.com/buch3281 Waxmann Verlag 10.31244/9783830982814 10.31244/9783830982814 73f853dd-22eb-4606-af25-819fc9d6debf 9783830932819 8 232 open access
spellingShingle Kulturkontakt
Wissensgeschichte
Wissensarchiv
Kolonialismus
Imperialismus
Postcolonial Studies
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
Fugitive Knowledge
title Fugitive Knowledge
title_full Fugitive Knowledge
title_fullStr Fugitive Knowledge
title_full_unstemmed Fugitive Knowledge
title_short Fugitive Knowledge
title_sort fugitive knowledge
topic Kulturkontakt
Wissensgeschichte
Wissensarchiv
Kolonialismus
Imperialismus
Postcolonial Studies
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
topic_facet Kulturkontakt
Wissensgeschichte
Wissensarchiv
Kolonialismus
Imperialismus
Postcolonial Studies
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
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