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23 janvier 2018
- doi: 10.4000/books.pum.5322
- isbn: 9782760632424
- eisbn: 9782821898219
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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Nishant Upadhyay, « Chapitre 10. Whither Decolonization: Indigenous Realities, Postcolonial Myths », Presses de l’Université de Montréal, ID : 10.4000/books.pum.5322
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My experiences as a student and teacher of South Asian Studies has made me question the role area studies and postcolonial theory play in (re)producing and institutionalizing hegemonic constructs of the “nation”—both, the nation “here” and “there”. My assumptions that theorizing colonialism in South Asia would easily enable critical conversations with (ongoing) settler colonialism and white supremacy on Turtle Island have proven wrong, many times. Within academic disciplines like postcolonial...