Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics

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Title

Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics

Subject

Humanities, Social Sciences

Description

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.

CAWS is a methodology for the study of antiquity that shifts away from the assumptions and approaches of the discipline known as classical studies and/or classics. 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. The contributions in this book, by an international group of researchers, offer a variety of situated, embodied perspectives on the question of how to imagine a more critical discipline, rather than a unified single view. The volume is divided into four parts – “Critical Epistemologies”, “Critical Philologies”, “Critical Time and Critical Space”, and “Critical Approaches” – and uses these as spaces to propose disciplinary transformation.

Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics is a must-read for scholars and practitioners teaching in the field of classical studies, and the breadth of examples also makes it an invaluable resource for anyone working on the ancient world, or on confronting Eurocentrism, within other disciplines.

Creator

Mathura Umachandran
Marchella Ward

Source

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003222637/critical-ancient-world-studies-mathura-umachandran-marchella-ward?context=ubx&refId=283c3b42-77ea-4c36-be1a-07c005af0a20

Publisher

Routledge

Date

27 December 2023

Contributor

Guruh Haris Raputra

Rights

Creative Commons,
CC BY

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Tektbooks

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003222637

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