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Title: A Critical Synergy Condition: New Subtitle: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises Author: Ali Meghji Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1439922071 EAN: 9781439922071 ISBN: 9781439922071 Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, History Release Date: 15/09/2023 Description: Practitioners of decolonial theory and critical race theory (CRT) often use one or the other, but not both. In his provocative book, A Critical Synergy, Ali Meghji suggests using the two theories in tandem rather than attempting to hierarchize or synthesize them. Doing so allows for the study of social phenomena in a way that captures their global and historical roots, while acknowledging their local, national, and contemporary particularities.
The differences between decolonial thought and CRT, Meghji insists, does not necessarily imply one approach is stronger. Rather, he asserts, they often provide alternative but not incompatible viewpoints of the same social problem. Meghji presents case studies of capitalism, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, and twenty-first-century far-right populism to show that with both theories, we can understand more, as insights may be lost by using only one.
Meghji is not calling for a universal theoretical synthesis in A Critical Synergy, but rather a practice that can help open sociology and social science to the tradition of pluriversality much more broadly. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 210mm Item Length: 140mm Item Width: 18mm Item Weight: 227g Release Year: 2023 Missing Information?
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