I was looking at this report:
https://worldhumanitiesreport.org/report/
The humanities are a resource of critical analysis and interpretation. At the same time, this report reveals a tension between the humanities understood as core practices of national identity formation, imperialism, and dominance, and the humanities understood as the critical global humanities: resources through which nationalism, imperialism, and dominance have been questioned, analyzed, dissected, and displaced."
What's wrong with this?
3 comments:
To me it sounds like the "tension" is being identified only to avoid engaging with it? Is that right?
It's more of an absolute dichotomy than a "tension." Also, most work in the humanities doesn't have to be either supporting colonialism or fighting against colonialism, etc... Some of us just want to see how things work.
Yes, and it's probably impossible to see how things work if you're only looking at them from the right side of history.
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