Grigoreva K.S. (Anti)racism, (de)colonization, symbolic power and the new science. Voprosy nacional’nyh i federativnyh otnoshenij. 2021. Vol. 11. No. 11 (80). P. 3093-3101.

Abstract

Today it is increasingly possible to hear pessimistic predictions about the future of the social sciences. Reading articles published in international journals on racial and ethnic relations, cultural anthropology and archeology is indeed suggestive. A considerable proportion of such publications looks ideologically biased, methodologically untenable and empirically unfounded. Their authors, who postulate reliance on postmodern and poststructuralist theories, superficially assimilating the idea of ​​deconstruction by Jacques Derrida, seek to deconstruct everything except their own activities and what meets their moral standards (although the poststructuralist impulse leads in the opposite direction). Why is left-wing discourse spreading so rapidly, especially in the social sciences? What are the new radical critical theorists striving for? And how does this relate to competition within the academic field? This article is devoted to these issues.