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Pedagogies Of Intellectual Equality for Connecting with Non-Western Theories

Alternatives to Celebrating Multicultural or Sanctioning Fundamentalist Identities

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Part of the book series: Transgressions ((TRANS,volume 84))

Abstract

Ella Shohat and Robert Stam (1994) dedicated their exhilarating study of multiculturalism, Unthinking Eurocentrism: “To our families in Latin America and the Middle East.” They go onto explore the tensions in the unthinking dominance of multiculturalism by issues of identity. They dispute the reification of ethnic identities and people’s imprisonment in the indices of ethnic differences. Identity is critiqued for providing restricted perspectives; constricting allegiances and sanctioning parochial interests. The ‘Shohat/Stam’ epistemic critique demonstrates, and their argument points to Latin American and the Middle Eastern students’ co- implication in otherness, their complex relationalities and their diverse positionings. The celebration of ethno-specific identities denies this possibility.

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Singh, M. (2012). Pedagogies Of Intellectual Equality for Connecting with Non-Western Theories. In: Wright, H.K., Singh, M., Race, R. (eds) Precarious International Multicultural Education. Transgressions, vol 84. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-894-0_13

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