Decolonising the human : reflections from Africa on difference and oppression /
The 'human' emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle, and the degradation, marginalisation and immiseration...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
2021.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
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- The intervention of blackness on a world scale / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Patricia Pinky Ndlovu
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- Humanness and ableism: Construction and deconstruction of disability / Sibonokuhle Ndlovu
- Doing the old human / Cary Burnett
- Being a mineworker in post-apartheid South Africa: a decolonial perspective / Robert Maseko
- Meditations on the dehumanisation of the slave / Tendayi Sithole
- 'Language as being" in the politics of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o / Brian Sibanda
- The underside of modern knowledge: an epistemic break from Western science / Nokuthula Hlabangane
- The fiction of the juristic person: reassessing personhood in relation to people / C. D. Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara
- The cultural village and the idea of the 'human' / Morgan Ndlovu
- A fragmented humanity and monologues: towards a diversal humanism / Siphamandla Zondi.