Epistemological moor-ing. Re-positioning Foucault, Bourdieu and Derrida theory to its Northern African origins
Keenan, John and Kadi-Hanifi, Karima (2019) Epistemological moor-ing. Re-positioning Foucault, Bourdieu and Derrida theory to its Northern African origins. Teaching in Higher Education. pp. 1-16. ISSN 1356-2517
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Abstract
The question of why the works of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida are often attributed to France by HE lecturers and students when the origins or developments of their key ideas come from Africa is examined from critical and personal standpoints. The article joins the call for the decolonisation of the HE curriculum and gives detail to why the theory of these oft-cited thinkers and philosophers comes ‘out of Africa’ through an examination of their experiences in the Moorish regions of Tunisia and Algeria. Reasons for the attribution of the ideas to France are given including Eurocentrism, Wikipedisation of theory and the mythologization of France. This article is a response to the act of positioning theory which came from Africa as French in HE lectures. The authors consider why they might have done this including a deep reflection on the subject, listening to voices from Africa.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is the Author’s Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on 11/11/2019 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13562517.2019.1688781. |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Education > Department of Education, Multi-professional Practice and Early Childhood |
| Depositing User: | Ms Hazel Barham |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Dec 2020 18:22 |
| Last Modified: | 11 May 2021 04:00 |
| URI: | https://newman.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17298 |
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