Knowing - Unknowing : : African Studies at the Crossroads.

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
:
Schramm, Katharina.
TeilnehmendeR:
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.
©2025.
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Africa Multiple Series
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.

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