Reconstructing Local Knowledge

TL;DR: The authors examines the epistemological underpinnings of a more general sociocultural turn in the human sciences and the impact that this turn has had on the field's understanding of how L2 teachers learn to do their work.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical examination of another form of racism, epistemological racism, is presented, highlighting the importance of the intersectional nature of identity categories, and drawing scholars' attention on how epistemology racism marginalizes and erases the knowledge produced by scholars in the Global South, women scholars of color, and other minoritized groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Phenomonology of modernity and post-modernity in the context of trust in abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy in the modern world.

TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as discussed by the authors, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.

TL;DR: Postmodernism has been particularly important in acknowledging 'the multiple forms of otherness as they emerge from differences in subjectivity, gender and sexuality, race and class, temporal and spatial geographic locations and dislocations'.