{"title":"The decolonisation of the mind and history as an academic discipline","authors":"Irina Filatova","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2232626","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT History as an academic discipline is going through a methodological crisis, caused by the decolonising revolution in historiography. Having emerged in the 1980s–2000s, the present-day decolonial theories have created a new dominant paradigm in the public consciousness and in a whole complex of academic disciplines. The aim of the decolonisation of the mind is to liberate these disciplines, first of all the humanities, from any vestiges of Eurocentrism. However, decolonialists operate in the realm of ideas and methodologies some of which are incompatible with the existence of history as an academic discipline, and which have long been rejected by researchers. A comparison of decolonising ideas in Africa with similar ideas in Russia helps to understand their origins and the detrimental effect that their uncritical acceptance may have on history as an academic discipline and on popular consciousness and politics.","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2232626","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"AREA STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT History as an academic discipline is going through a methodological crisis, caused by the decolonising revolution in historiography. Having emerged in the 1980s–2000s, the present-day decolonial theories have created a new dominant paradigm in the public consciousness and in a whole complex of academic disciplines. The aim of the decolonisation of the mind is to liberate these disciplines, first of all the humanities, from any vestiges of Eurocentrism. However, decolonialists operate in the realm of ideas and methodologies some of which are incompatible with the existence of history as an academic discipline, and which have long been rejected by researchers. A comparison of decolonising ideas in Africa with similar ideas in Russia helps to understand their origins and the detrimental effect that their uncritical acceptance may have on history as an academic discipline and on popular consciousness and politics.
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Social Dynamics is the journal of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. It has been published since 1975, and is committed to advancing interdisciplinary academic research, fostering debate and addressing current issues pertaining to the African continent. Articles cover the full range of humanities and social sciences including anthropology, archaeology, economics, education, history, literary and language studies, music, politics, psychology and sociology.
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