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Africa-centred knowledges : crossing fields and worlds /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cooper, Brenda (Editor ), Morrell, Robert (Editor ), Soudien, Crain (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : James Currey, ©2014.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Forward. The Power of Knowing / Crain Soudien. pt. II. Epistemology
  • Struggles Over Meaning-Making. 1. Validated Knowledge
  • Confronting Myths about Africa / Lansana Keita
  • 2. Re-theorizing the Indigenous Knowledge Debate / Lesley Green
  • 3. Battlefields of Knowledge
  • Conceptions of Gender in Development Discourse / Signe Arnfred
  • 4. Knowing Time
  • Temporal Epistemology & the African Novel / Bill Ashcroft
  • 5. Black Boxes & Glass Jars
  • Classification in the Hunt for Africa-centred Knowledge / Brenda Cooper
  • 6. ̀This is a Robbers' System'
  • Popular Musicians' Readings of the Kenyan State / Mbugua Wa Mungai.
  • pt. II. Policy & Practice
  • Applying the Knowledge. 7. Science, Fishers' Knowledge & Namibia's Fishing Industry / Lesley Green
  • 8. ICT for Development
  • Extending Computing Design Concepts / Edwin Blake
  • 9. ̀Good Houses Make Good People'
  • Making Knowledge about Health & Environment in Cape Town / Vanessa Watson
  • 10. Men of God & Gendered Knowledge / Michael Pk Okyerefo
  • 11. Retrieving the Traces of Knowledge-making while Editing a Book on Postgraduate Writing / Lucia Thesen
  • 12. Hunhuism (Personhood) & Academic Success in a Zimbabwean Secondary School / Leadus Madzima.