A decolonial anthropology: You can dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools
Venkatesan, Soumhya, Ntarangwi, Mwenda, Mills, David, Gillespie, Kelly, Davé, Naisargi, and Backhaus, Vincent (2024) A decolonial anthropology: You can dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools. Critique of Anthropology, 44 (2). pp. 99-140.
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Abstract
The 2022 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT) Social Anthropology, University of Manchester. The motion is, of course, a riff on Audre Lorde’s well-known 1984 claim that ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.’ Lorde is asking about the tools of a racist and constitutionally exclusionary world, but we can ask similar questions about the tools of an academic discipline, anthropology, which arose during the height of empire, and the house that anthropology has built and its location in the university. Are anthropology's tools able to dismantle a house built on oppression, exploitation and discrimination and then build a different better house? If not, then what kinds of other tools might we use, and what is it that we might want to build? The motion is proposed by David Mills and Mwenda Ntarangwi and opposed by Kelly Gillespie and Naisargi Davé with Soumhya Venkatesan convening and editing the debate for publication
| Item ID: | 82954 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 0308-275X |
| Keywords: | decolonial anthropology, debate, reform, abolish, tools, Audre Lorde |
| Copyright Information: | ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL 4.0 INTERNATIONAL Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Funders: | Critique of Anthropology, Association of Social Anthropologists |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2024 00:38 |
| FoR Codes: | 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4401 Anthropology > 440107 Social and cultural anthropology @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society @ 100% |
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