DECOLONIZING KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN BELARUS AND UKRAINE

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F24%3A10487428" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/24:10487428 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=FiXBjJ83vk" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=FiXBjJ83vk</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.61095/815-0047-2024-2-5-17" target="_blank" >10.61095/815-0047-2024-2-5-17</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

DECOLONIZING KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN BELARUS AND UKRAINE

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The issue is dedicated to decolonization in the domains of education and social and humanitarian research. We assume that in our societies, knowledge production, to a certain degree, remains under the influence of Soviet and/or Russian ideological narratives and approaches. Importantly, not just local, but also Western scholars can act as agents of this influence. Both Belarus and Ukraine are stifled by the &quot;double colonial loop&quot;: Russian imperial claims to control our countries have long been reinforced by the dominance of Russia as a thematic focus in Western centers of post-Soviet, Slavic, and East European studies, and the dominance of the Russia-centered approach to our countries in Western academic and expert environments. Thus, our task of revising the politics of knowledge production in education and science has a direct link to the critical rethinking of the understanding of Eastern Europe itself in Western academia. Releasing the &quot;double colonial loop&quot; implies at least three things: a) different positioning of our countries in the cultural imaginary of European and other societies; b) filling in the gaps in the knowledge about our countries and working out productive approaches to their study in the global academia; c) overcoming the inferiority complex of our scholars, who might treat their intellectual work as secondary to Western - but also often to Russian - scientific discourses. We - Be-larusian and Ukrainian scholars - need to rethink and redefine our-selves as independent epistemic subjects (knowledge producers) and, from this perspective, to develop new epistemologies of the region.

Název v anglickém jazyce

DECOLONIZING KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN BELARUS AND UKRAINE

Popis výsledku anglicky

The issue is dedicated to decolonization in the domains of education and social and humanitarian research. We assume that in our societies, knowledge production, to a certain degree, remains under the influence of Soviet and/or Russian ideological narratives and approaches. Importantly, not just local, but also Western scholars can act as agents of this influence. Both Belarus and Ukraine are stifled by the &quot;double colonial loop&quot;: Russian imperial claims to control our countries have long been reinforced by the dominance of Russia as a thematic focus in Western centers of post-Soviet, Slavic, and East European studies, and the dominance of the Russia-centered approach to our countries in Western academic and expert environments. Thus, our task of revising the politics of knowledge production in education and science has a direct link to the critical rethinking of the understanding of Eastern Europe itself in Western academia. Releasing the &quot;double colonial loop&quot; implies at least three things: a) different positioning of our countries in the cultural imaginary of European and other societies; b) filling in the gaps in the knowledge about our countries and working out productive approaches to their study in the global academia; c) overcoming the inferiority complex of our scholars, who might treat their intellectual work as secondary to Western - but also often to Russian - scientific discourses. We - Be-larusian and Ukrainian scholars - need to rethink and redefine our-selves as independent epistemic subjects (knowledge producers) and, from this perspective, to develop new epistemologies of the region.

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů