1774Social beingTTen-USCOEXISTENCE - Thesaurus of intersectionality and decolonial issues: black studies, gender, sexuality and feminist studies active approved Social beingA term to replace the use of ‘man’, ‘human’ and challenge epistemic control of the nature of being that allows subalternisation. Social being is a translation of ‘an-naas’, a Quranic concept usually mistranslated as ‘man’, ‘human’ in modern translation sthat internalise gendered, otherising discourses within European discourses. ‘Social being’ comes from the roots of án-naas’ and undermines the idea that otherisation of fellow social beings is possible. All are socially interconnected by their state of being – no ‘man’or ‘human’ can deny another’s ‘humanity’ or worth within a universal understanding of being.

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]]>A term to replace the use of ‘man’, ‘human’ and challenge epistemic control of the nature of being that allows subalternisation. Social being is a translation of ‘an-naas’, a Quranic concept usually mistranslated as ‘man’, ‘human’ in modern translation sthat internalise gendered, otherising discourses within European discourses. ‘Social being’ comes from the roots of án-naas’ and undermines the idea that otherisation of fellow social beings is possible. All are socially interconnected by their state of being – no ‘man’or ‘human’ can deny another’s ‘humanity’ or worth within a universal understanding of being.

Source: https://decolonialityeurope.wixsite.com/decoloniality/key-concepts

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