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10 - The Rest Is History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2022

Harri Englund
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University of Cambridge
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Scott and his closest African associates are not generally remembered in contemporary Malawi. The Presbyterian churches and their Scottish partners have played a significant role in Malawi’s late-colonial and postcolonial history, but other religious and political entities have also been influential. The racialized order and the emphasis on peoplehood have effaced Scott’s vision for racial equality. His insistence on mutual recognition in an unequal encounter between Europeans and Africans sought a permanent transformation in the relationship. The figure of the risen Christ gave an injunction to examine prejudices. As such, Scott’s vision differed from more recent cosmopolitan ideas as well as the reversals promised in participatory development. Scott’s theology of reversals sought epistemic justice in a world in which the racialized others barely participated as co-knowers. Doing epistemic justice to his vision in the twenty-first century requires asking questions about who are admitted to imagine the moral and political horizons of racial equality.

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Visions for Racial Equality
David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi
, pp. 265 - 282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • The Rest Is History
  • Harri Englund, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Visions for Racial Equality
  • Online publication: 10 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009076487.012
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  • The Rest Is History
  • Harri Englund, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Visions for Racial Equality
  • Online publication: 10 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009076487.012
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  • The Rest Is History
  • Harri Englund, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Visions for Racial Equality
  • Online publication: 10 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009076487.012
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