Knowing - Unknowing : : African Studies at the Crossroads.
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.
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2024. ©2025. |
Year of Publication: | 2024 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Africa Multiple Series
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505 | 0 | |a Front cover -- Half Title page -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Thinking as Moving - Knowledge Practices and Decolonial Frames in African Studies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Un-doing the Canon -- 3 Institutional Challenges and Transformations -- 4 Thinking as Moving: Future Knowledges -- 5 Chapter Overview -- References -- Part:1 Un-doing the Canon -- 1 African Studies, or How to -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Making the Canon Apocryphal -- 3 Reservations -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Dissecting and Transcending Enduring Fallacies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Thinking without the Body -- 3 Disciplines: A Real or False Promise for Humanity? -- 4 The Promise and Limitation of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity -- 5 Colonial Gifts of Twisted Tongues and Scrambled Thoughts -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Knowledge Matters: Racism and Its Wording as a Tool for Reconfiguring -- 1 Introduction -- 2 European Colonialism and the Politics of Othering -- 2.1 The Politics of Othering -- 2.2 Othering the Body -- 3 The Colonialist Politics of Silencing Knowledges and Languages -- 4 Linguistic Othering and Racist Neologisms -- 5 The M-word and the N-word -- 6 The N-word and the M-word and Contemporary German Debates -- 7 The If Debate -- 8 Decolonizing Language as a Pillar of Reconfiguring German-Based African Studies -- 9 Resistant Terminology -- 10 Naming Whiteness as a Positionality (of Knowing and Knowledge Production) -- 11 And Now? Concluding Considerations -- 11.1 Remembering -- 11.2 Towards New Futures -- References -- Part:2 Institutional Challenges and Transformations -- 4 The Ongoing Tune of the African Genius at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Pan-African Beginnings: Research in and on Africa. | |
505 | 8 | |a 3 Teaching: Developing Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes -- 4 Documentation: Archives, Library, Museum, Dance Ensemble and a Journal -- 5 Selected Contributions to the Institute's Academic and Intellectual Projects, Infrastructure and Collaborations -- 6 Linkages and an Agenda for Global Africa -- 7 By Way of a Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Ias Undergraduate Courses -- Appendix 3 -- Masters and PHD Courses -- References -- 5 Written in Water: the Legon School of History and the Publication of the Past -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historiography in Ghana Notes and Queries -- 2.1 Flattening Difference through Teaching -- 3 Self-Commemoration and the Historical Society of Ghana 50 Years after Independence -- 3.1 Flattening Difference through Memory -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Gender, Feminism and Politics of Knowledge Production: an Interrogation of Institutional -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Gender and the Politics of Knowledge Production -- 3 Gender and Institutional Cultures -- 4 Feminist Perspectives and Knowledge Production -- 5 Strategizing Gender Equity in African Universities -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Transformation beyond the Surface: Race, -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historically White Universities and the State -- 3 Power and the Politics of Intraracial Contact -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 8 On Access and Responsibility - Questioning Ulli Beier's Legacy through -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Established Narratives: the Construction of an Insider -- 3 Owning Responsibility: Opening the Archive -- 4 Shift of Access: the Return of the Photographic Estate -- 5 Decolonizing as a Collaborative Process -- References -- Part:3 Thinking as Moving: Future Pathways -- 9 Women Sages in Male Epistemic Spaces - an Analysis of Patriarchal Forces -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Field Trip Findings -- 3 Criteria for Sagacity. | |
505 | 8 | |a 4 The Reality of Women as Sages -- 4.1 On the Origin of the World -- 4.2 On the Question of Leadership -- 4.3 On the Issue of Gender Relations/Equality of the Sexes -- 5 Female Sages as Non-candidates for Orukan Philosophic Sagacity -- 6 Analysis: Patriarchal Forces in Female Knowledge Production -- 6.1 Control -- 6.2 Suppression -- 6.3 Acquiescence -- 7 Deviation from the Orukan Sense -- 8 Towards "Feminine Wisdom" -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- 10 Knowledges in Conflict: Conceptualizations of Age -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Colonial Correspondence: a Brief Review -- 3 A Brief History of the Southern Cameroons -- 4 The Data: the Manga Williams Personal Papers -- 5 Conceptualizations of Age: Conflicts of Knowledge -- 5.1 The Colonizers' Conceptualization of Age -- 5.3 The Colonized's Conceptualization of Age -- 6 Co-existence of Conceptualizations: Age and Spheres of Power -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 11 Haunted Numbers: the Lingering Legacies of Colonial Statistics -- 1 Historicity of Objectivity -- 2 Physical Anthropology -- 3 Modes of Metric-Statistical Knowing: Tables, Frequency Schemes and Curves -- 4 Conclusion: Colonial Legacies -- References -- 12 Lamb Description - a Circulation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Describing a Lamb - Moving from Subject to Object to Context -- 3 Point of Departure - Lamb Description Courses at Gellap Ost -- 4 Pelt - Subjective Knowledge - Beauty -- 5 Flock/ Stud - Breeding Knowledge - Genetics -- 6 Meat - Generating Income - Knowledge in Suspension -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 13 Combative Decoloniality and the BlackHouse Paradigm of Knowledge, -- 1 Genealogy of the BHK, Soweto (by Zandi Radebe) -- 1.1 From UCKAR to Siyaphambili Youth Pioneers (SYP): Black Consciousness Ideas and Praxis -- 1.2 The Blackwash Dream - "'Coz '94 Changed Fokol". | |
505 | 8 | |a 1.3 The BlackHouse Kollective Soweto (BHK) Paradigm of Decolonizing Knowledge -- 2 From the Summer School to the BlackHouse: Linking Combative Decolonial Projects (by Nelson Maldonado-Torres) -- 3 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index -- Back cover. | |
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