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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Superior document: | Africa Multiple Series ; v.4 |
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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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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.