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Decolonising science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in an age of technocolonialism : recentering African indigenous knowledge and belief systems / edited by Artwell Nhemachena, Nokuthula Hlabangane et Joseph Z.Z. Matowanyika.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Mathematics.
- Engineering--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Engineering.
- Technology--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Technology.
- Science--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Science.
- Imperialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2020]
- Summary:
- Positing the notions of coloniality of ignorance and geopolitics of ignorance as central to coloniality and colonisation, this book examines how colonialists socially produced ignorance among colonised indigenous peoples so as to render them docile and manageable. Dismissing colonial descriptions of indigenous people as savages, illiterate, irrational, prelogical, mystical, primitive, barbaric and backward, the book argues that imperialists/colonialists contrived geopolitics of ignorance wherein indigenous regions were forced to become ignorant, hence containable and manageable in the imperial world. Questioning the provenance of modernist epistemologies, the book asks why Eurocentric scholars only contest the provenance of indigenous knowledges, artefacts and scientific collections. Interrogating why empire sponsors the decolonisation of universities/epistemologies in indigenous territories while resisting the repatriation/restitution of indigenous artefacts, the book also wonders why Westerners who still retain indigenous artefacts, skulls and skeletons in their museums, universities and private collections do not consider such artefacts and skulls to be colonising them as well. The book is valuable to scholars and activists in the fields of anthropology, museums and heritage studies, science and technology studies, decoloniality, policymaking, education, politics, sociology and development studies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9956-551-98-8
- OCLC:
- 1153544021
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