"World"-travelling: Identity, culture, knowledge in post-colonial times.
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Title
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"World"-travelling: Identity, culture, knowledge in post-colonial times.
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Identifier
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AAI9315473
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identifier
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9315473
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Creator
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Johnson-Riordan, Lorraine.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Stanley Aronowitz
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Date
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1993
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Theory and Methods
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Abstract
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This project takes as its point of departure the "crisis" of knowledge in the contemporary historical juncture, and, in particular, its manifestation as discursive colonization of mainstream sociological discourse in contemporary neo/post-colonial introductory sociology classrooms. Sociological narratives, categories, metaphors and frameworks are no longer able to offer questions for the present cultural juncture. Therefore, the notion of the "world"-traveller who daily crosses cultural boundaries, inhabiting multiple worlds, times and places is suggested as the new political subject who can contribute to de-colonizing sociological discourse and create new narratives, categories and frameworks. Moreover, arguing that colonizing discourses involve a strategy of disavowal (a twofold process of self-erasure and cultural disavowal), this project suggests there are possibilities for sociological critique in the notion of "autobiography as cultural critique." A constellation of contemporary cultural theories (feminism, postmodernism and post-colonial discourses) are turned to in order to articulate the practical/political classroom practices surrounding this notion.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
