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Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa : Myths of Decolonization.
This lively book interrogates the African postcolonial condition with a focus on the thematics of liberation predicament and the long standing crisis of dependence (epistemological, cultural, economic, and political) created by colonialism and coloniality. A sophisticated deployment of historical, p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
CODESRIA,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Part I
- Colonial Matrix of Power; 1. Introduction. A Neocolonized Africa; 2. In the Snare of Colonial Matrix of Power; Introduction; Mapping the key contours of colonial matrix of power; Idea of progress and developmentalism; Coloniality and the limits of decolonization; Towards African epistemological freedom; Conclusions; 3. Myths of Decolonization and Illusions of Freedom; Introduction; Disentangling 'emancipation' from 'liberation' in the decolonization discourse; Myths of decolonization and problems of juridical freedom.
- Struggles to translate juridical freedom into popular freedomSeeking freedom from the state; Seeking to democratize the postcolonial state; Seeking to reconfigure the postcolonial state into an engine of development; Conclusion; Part II
- Discursive Constructions; 4. Discursive Construction of the African People; Introduction; The social construction of global human identities and spatialization of the world; The making of African identities; African nationalism and the making of Africans; Who then is an African?; Autochthonous discourses and Afro-phobias; Conclusion.
- 5. Coloniality of Being and the Phenomenon of ViolenceIntroduction; Coloniality and the creation of a racialized/ethnicized adversarial world; Coloniality of being and practises of violence; Racist Manichean Misanthropic Scepticism in practice: German-Herero War, 1904-1907; Violence as a colonial mode of governance: King Leopold II and the Congo Free State; Neo-apartheid and systemic violence in South Africa; Conclusion; Part III
- Case Studies; 6. The Idea of South Africa and Pan-South African Nationalism; Introduction; Framing the debates on identity.
- The genealogies of the idea of South AfricaAnglicization as an identifiction process; Afrikaner republicanism and apartheid as versions of South Africanism; African nationalism and imagination of a non-racial 'rainbow' nation; Conclusion; 7. Zimbabwe and the Crisis of Chimurenga Nationalism; Introduction; Is Zimbabwe a victim of new imperialism?; The ideology of Chimurenga; Framing the debates and discourses on the nation; Social identities; Nation formation; Birth of neocolonial Zimbabwe; Fighting racial domination in a neocolonial state; Ethnocracy and the nation.
- MDC imagination of a new Zimbabwe nationConclusions; Conclusion; 8. The Murky Present and the Mysterious Future; Introduction; Epistemologies of freedom; Murky present and the mysterious future; Conclusion: Is another world therefore possible?; Bibliography; Back cover.