Umachandran, Mathura
(ed.)
Ward, Marchella
(ed.)
Editorial: Routledge
Número de páginas: 284 págs.
Fecha de edición: 27-12-2023
EAN: 9781032120119
ISBN: 978-1-032-12011-9
Precio (sin IVA): 48,13 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 50,06 €
This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern West. Although it seeks to reckon with the discipline’s colonial history, it is not simply the application of decolonial theory or the search to uncover subaltern narratives in a subject that has special relevance to the privileged and powerful. Rather, it dismantles the structures of knowledge that have led to this privileging, and questions the categories, ideas, themes, narratives, and epistemological structures that have been deemed objective and essential within the inherited discipline of classics.