Cooper / Morrell Africa-centred Knowledges

Crossing Fields and Worlds
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78204-365-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Proposes a dynamic new approach to the production of knowledge on Africa, one that is global, multiple and heterogeneous, elucidating this through both discursive theoretical chapters and case histories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Brenda

Morrell, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the possibility of Africa-centred knowledges - PART ONE Epistemology: struggles over meaning-making
Validated knowledge: confronting myths about Africa by Lansana Keita
Re-theorizing the indigenous knowledge debate by Lesley Green
Battlefields of knowledge: conceptions of gender in development discourse by Signe Arnfred
Knowing time: temporal epistemology in the African novel by Bill Ashcroft
Black boxes and glass jars: classification in the hunt for Africa-centred knowledge by Brenda Cooper
'This is a robbers' system': popular musicians' readings of the Kenyan state by Mbugua wa-Mungai - PART TWO Policy and practice: applying the knowledge
Science, fishers' knowledge and Namibia's fishing industry by Barbara Paterson, Marieke Norton, Astrid Jarre and Lesley Green
ICT for development: extending computing design concepts by Ulrike Rivett, Gary Marsden and Edwin Blake
'Good houses make good people': making knowledge about health and environment in Cape Town by Warren Smit, Ariane de Lannoy, Robert VH Dover, Estelle V Lambert, Naomi Levitt and Vanessa Watson
Men of God and gendered knowledge by Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Michael PK Okyerefo
Retrieving the traces of knowledge-making while editing a book on postgraduate writing by Linda Cooper and Lucia Thesen
Hunhuism (personhood) and academic success in a Zimbabwean secondary school by Leadus Madzima