Beyond disciplines : African perspectives of theory and method / edited by Wanjala S. Nasong'o, Eka Ikpe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nasong'o, Shadrack Wanjala, editor.

Ikpe, Eka, editor.

Series:

Codesria book series http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/3f7a0cbe-593d-8007-cbb5-9a75189fde06

CODESRIA book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Africa.

Economic development.

Eurocentrism--Africa--Social policy.

Eurocentrism.

Africa--Social policy.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xx, 150 pages illustrations 24 cm

illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Dakar : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, [2025]

Summary:

To what extent can we go beyond disciplinary boundaries in order to produce knowledge on Africa that has emancipatory and transformational power? Beyond Disciplines: African Perspectives on Theory and Method, attempts to address this question. Among the critical issues covered by contributors to the book include the limitations of Eurocentric approaches on illuminating and explaining African social contexts; the value of critical African scholarship to our understanding of the continent's political economy of development; the descriptive, explanatory, and predictive potency of interpretivist emancipatory approaches vis-à-vis positivist developmental ones; the significant of gender power analysis for understanding women's experiences of violent extremism; application of social science research across research communities on the key issue of environmentalism; as well as theorizing the confluence of internal displacement, weaponisation and agency of women and violent extremism. The book, authored by scholars from multiple disciplinary backgrounds based at institutions across three continents, underscores the imperative value of transformational epistemologies for Africa, and demonstrated that the generation of such epistemologies is contingent upon collaborative knowledge-production projects across epistemic communities. -- From back cover.

Contents:

Introduction : emancipatory epistemologies beyond disciplinary boundaries / Eka Ikpe and Wanjala S. Nasong'o

Eurocentrism and the contemporary social sciences / Lansana Keita

Political science and African political epistemologies : the dialectics of developmentalist vs. emancipatory approaches / Wanjala S. Nasong'o

Transcending the state-market dichotomy, developmentalism and industrial change : learning from critical African scholars / Eka Ikpe

Governing gender : violent extremism in Northern Nigeria / Awino Okech

Weaponised and displaced women in mass atrocities and the R2P / Cecilia Idika-Kalu

Use of social science and research by environmental NGOs in Africa : evidence from Morocco / Brahim El Morchid and Hind Hourmat Allah.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782382340929

2382340924

OCLC:

1519570418