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epistemic disobedience: a standalone construct

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Postcolonial studies

delinking from Western frameworks of knowledge to think from other locations, proposed as a path toward decolonial freedom.

In postcolonial studies, epistemic disobedience refers to delinking from Western frameworks of knowledge to think from other locations, proposed as a path toward decolonial freedom. This meaning comes from Mignolo (2009) in Theory, Culture & Society.[1]

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References

Mignolo, W. D. (2009). Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom. Theory, Culture & Society, 26(7-8), 159-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276409349275

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