Decolonizing Truth:

This essay reflects on the notions of objectivity and truth. Taking Palestine as an urgent political call and a precondition for a decolonial future, it argues that in the context of genocidal violence and the systematic distortion of reality, objectivity and truth cannot be dismissed merely as tools of oppression. Instead, approaching them as counter-narratives grounded in embodied experiences that have been violently erased by colonial apparatuses of knowledge production, this essay reclaims truth as situated and from below and as a potential vehicle of justice and epistemic resistance.

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Kvinder Køn & Forskning
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2026-01-20
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https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v38i1.159565
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Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
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Decolonizing Truth:

Sophia Zisakou
Kvinder Køn & Forskning
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
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Decolonizing Truth:

Sophia Zisakou
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Abstract

This essay reflects on the notions of objectivity and truth. Taking Palestine as an urgent political call and a precondition for a decolonial future, it argues that in the context of genocidal violence and the systematic distortion of reality, objectivity and truth cannot be dismissed merely as tools of oppression. Instead, approaching them as counter-narratives grounded in embodied experiences that have been violently erased by colonial apparatuses of knowledge production, this essay reclaims truth as situated and from below and as a potential vehicle of justice and epistemic resistance.

Kvinder Køn & ForskningVol. 38(1)
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