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In this conversation, the speakers discuss the politics of knowledge in the context of the North-South relationship. Focussing on three areas – Australian Aboriginal societies, Muslim minorities in the West and the processes of change in the Asia-Pacific region – the conversation explores the relationship between so-called local and global knowledges. It raises questions about whether Western knowledge formations can engage productively with everyday knowledges in the formerly colonised world, especially bearing in mind the colonising tendencies of liberal and neoliberal thought. The speakers raise associated issues including the different ways of learning of some non-European people, whether the vitality of everyday life can be translated into modern ways of living, the sense of dislocation generated in some quarters by 9/11 and the clash of knowledges in the debate about development.
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Darby, P., Morsi, Y., von Sturmer, J. (2016). A Conversation About the Politics of Everyday Knowledge at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies on the 14th of August 2014. In: Robertson, M., Tsang, P. (eds) Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 30. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0216-8_3
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