#UCTSummerSchool2021: Decolonising the Social Sciences

The current discourse on the colonial character of knowledge in South Africa places emphasis on the colonial period, suggesting that the problem of social scientific thought was its overt support for, or open alliance with, the colonial project. Such a view does not take into account the deeper implication of South African social sciences with Enlightenment thought, from which it emerges. This double lecture will demonstrate what is left unthought when modern rational social scientific thought encounters, or tries to make sense of, non-western modes of being-in-the-world.