Knowing - Unknowing

African Studies at the Crossroads
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70143-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Africa Multiple

This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new horizons of knowledge appear and new epistemic practices (e.g. symmetry, collaboration, undisciplining) gain traction. Through our critical engagements with structural, relational, and personal aspects of knowing and unknowing we work towards a greater multiplicity of knowledges and practices. 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.

Contributors are Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Eric A. Anchimbe, Edwin Asa Adjei, Susan Arndt, Muyiwa Falaiye, Katharina Greven, Christine Hanke, Amanda Hlengwa, Catherine Kiprop, Elísio Macamo, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Lena Naumann, Thando Njovane, Samuel Ntewusu, Anthony Okeregbe, Zandisiwe Radebe, Elelwani Ramugondo, Eleanor Schaumann

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schramm, Katharina

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Thinking as Moving – Knowledge Practices and Decolonial Frames in African Studies

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Katharina Schramm

PART 1: Un-doing the Canon

1 African Studies, or How to Make the Canon Apocryphal

Elísio Macamo

2 Dissecting and Transcending Enduring Fallacies

Elelwani Ramugondo

3 Knowledge Matters: Racism and Its Wording as a Tool for Reconfiguring African Studies

Susan Arndt

PART 2: Institutional Challenges and Transformations

4 The Ongoing Tune of the African Genius at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana

Edwin Asa Adjei, Samuel Ntewusu and Akosua Adomako Ampofo

5 Written in Water: the Legon School of History and the Publication of the Past

Cassandra Mark-Thiesen

6 Gender, Feminism and Politics of Knowledge Production: an Interrogation of Institutional Cultures of Africa’s Institutions of Higher Learning

Catherine Kiprop

7 Transformation beyond the Surface: Race, Power and Young Academics after #RhodesMustFall

Thando Njovane and Amanda Hlengwa

8 On Access and Responsibility – Questioning Ulli Beier’s Legacy through Collaborative Approaches

Katharina Greven and Lena Naumann

PART 3: Thinking as Moving: Future Pathways

9 Women Sages in Male Epistemic Spaces – an Analysis of Patriarchal Forces in Female Knowledge Production

Anthony Okeregbe and Muyiwa Falaiye

10 Knowledges in Conflict: Conceptualizations of Age in Colonial Letters

Eric A. Anchimbe

11 Haunted Numbers: the Lingering Legacies of Colonial Statistics and Measurement

Christine Hanke

12 Lamb Description – a Circulation of Knowledge Practices

Eleanor Schaumann

13 Combative Decoloniality and the BlackHouse Paradigm of Knowledge, Creation and Action

Zandi Radebe and Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katharina Schramm, Ph.D. 2004, holds the Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. She is facilitating the research group “Anthropology of Global Inequalities” which is invested in a critical public anthropology at the interface of Science & Technology Studies (STS) and political anthropology.

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Ph.D. 2004, is Professor and Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research in the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He has published extensively on decolonization and decoloniality and various aspects of African Studies. His latest publication is Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South (CODESRIA, 2024).