DuBoisian, Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories

Graduate credit

The twenty-first century has so far witnessed a crisis in humanity marked by sporadic violence. Existing mainstream social science theories fall short of fully explaining how meaning is produced out there at this particular juncture. Recently, approaches critical of the mainstream have started to emerge. Among these, decolonial, postcolonial and DuBoisian theories stand out in providing an alternate way of approaching the world at large. The course will consist of studying these emerging theories in three parts: Part I. Destabilizing the Origins of Western Knowledge Production: European Modernity; Part II. Rethinking American Social Science Knowledge Construction: DuBoisian Intervention; and Part III. Reconsidering Global Knowledge Production: Postcolonial Involvement.