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For to change the world is necessary to first change the hegemonic white North Atlantic vision of the world
Daurius FIGUEIRA
Monday, November 18, 2002 12:02 AM
Dear Participants, The central issue of the world parliament lies in the
epistemology and ontology that underpin the reference documents to which we
have been guided to . The underlying documents and the debate so far are
couched in the worldview and discourse of the white North Atlantic. The debate
so far is about a view of the world which takes for granted the hegemony of
the white North Atlantic.
The debate is therefore inclusive, mono-cultural, mono-discursive and racist.
A world parliament founded on these praxes is therefore of no use to me in my
peripheral realities.
In a rapidly globalised world one cannot expect to constitute a world
parliament on the basis of the imperialist epistemology of the enlightenment
and expect it to work for diversity and empowerment.
More so one cannot constitute a world parliament on the tacit acceptance of
capitalism and expect it to work for me of the periphery.
The forum has then to grapple with first self-criticism and self-
deconstruction to question the very discourse being utilized to constitute the
world parliament and then move from there.
It was apparent at the Lille Assembly the gulf that existed between the white
North Atlantic discourse that was hegemonic at Lille and those held by
delegates of the periphery.
There is then no progress to be made with the continued adherence of the
Alliance to discourses and worldviews that form the basis of the barbarity and
injustices of the world. To change the world is then to first change the
manner in which you view the world.
Daurius Figueira.
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
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