Resistance
Its an old idea with a renewed popularity and influence in some branches of the humanities and social sciences in the past forty years. Many books and articles have been written raising an eyebrow and smiling on concepts like rationality, well-conducted enquiry, evidence, inference, warrant and justification. Suspicion of metanarratives, hostility to totalizing projects, condemnation of universalism as a tool of colonialism, identification of knowledge with power, distrust of binary oppositions, resistance to hegemonic discourses, decentring,problematization, interrogation of authority, hierarchies, logocentrism, phallogocentrism- all part of the arsenal.
Why Truth Matters
Benson and Stangroom
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