Abstract
Alternative discourse in its various forms informs us simultaneously on collective disparate, mainstream and marginalized histories and identities. The various manifestations of these larger problems and their sources are identified as, namely, the critique of colonialism, academic imperialism, de- colonization (of knowledge), critical pedagogy, imitation and the captive mind, de- schooling, academic dependency, Orientlism and Eurocentrism (see Alatas, S.F., 2003). These are captured in the larger contexts of political, cultural and power relations between the former Western colonial powers and the ex- colonies.
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Merican, A.M. (2012). Beyond Boundedness: Imagining the Post-colonial Dislocation. In: Nair-Venugopal, S. (eds) The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East. Frontiers of Globalization Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137009289_3
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