Knowing - unknowing African studies at the crossroads edited by Katharina Schramm, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schramm, Katharina, editor.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., editor.

Series:

Africa multiple : contributions to the study of Africa and its diasporas 2772-7157 volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--Africa.

Decolonization.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Organizational change.

Africa--Study and teaching (Higher).

Africa.

epistemology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

African studies at the crossroads

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston Brill [2024]

Summary:

"This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new horizons of knowledge appear and new epistemic practices (e.g. symmetry, collaboration, undisciplining) gain traction. Through our critical engagements with structural, relational, and personal aspects of knowing and unknowing we work towards a greater multiplicity of knowledges and practices. Calling into question the asymmetrical global economy of knowledge and its uneven division of intellectual labour, our interdisciplinary volume explores what a decolonial horizon could entail for African Studies at the crossroads. Contributors are Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Eric A. Anchimbe, Edwin Asa Adjei, Susan Arndt, Muyiwa Falaiye, Katharina Greven, Christine Hanke, Amanda Hlengwa, Catherine Kiprop, Elísio Macamo, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Lena Naumann, Thando Njovane, Samuel Ntewusu, Anthony Okeregbe, Zandisiwe Radebe, Elelwani Ramugondo, Eleanor Schaumann"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Thinking as Moving : Knowledge Practices and Decolonial Frames in African Studies / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Katharina Schramm

African Studies, or How to Make the Canon Apocryphal / Elísio Macamo

Dissecting and Transcending Enduring Fallacies / Elelwani Ramugondo

Knowledge Matters : Racism and Its Wording as a Tool for Reconfiguring African Studies / Susan Arndt

The Ongoing Tune of the African Genius at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana / Edwin Asa Adjei, Samuel Ntewusu and Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Written in Water : the Legon School of History and the Publication of the Past / Cassandra Mark-Thiesen

Gender, Feminism and Politics of Knowledge Production : an Interrogation of Institutional Cultures of Africa's Institutions of Higher Learning / Catherine Kiprop

Transformation beyond the Surface : Race, Power and Young Academics after #RhodesMustFall / Thando Njovane and Amanda Hlengwa

On Access and Responsibility : Questioning Ulli Beier's Legacy through Collaborative Approaches / Katharina Greven and Lena Naumann

Women Sages in Male Epistemic Spaces : an Analysis of Patriarchal Forces in Female Knowledge Production / Anthony Okeregbe and Muyiwa Falaiye

Knowledges in Conflict : Conceptualizations of Age in Colonial Letters / Eric A. Anchimbe

Haunted Numbers : the Lingering Legacies of Colonial Statistics and Measurement / Christine Hanke

Lamb Description : a Circulation of Knowledge Practices / Eleanor Schaumann

Combative Decoloniality and the BlackHouse Paradigm of Knowledge, Creation and Action / Zandi Radebe and Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Other Format:

Print version Knowing - unknowing

ISBN:

9004701443

9789004701441

OCLC:

1449678392

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