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Decolonising the Human : Reflections from Africa on difference and oppression /

Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting 'the human' in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions. The 'human' emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. On...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mpofu, William (William J.) (Editor ), Steyn, Melissa E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The trouble with the human / William Mpofu and Milissa Steyn
  • The intervention of blackness on a world scale / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Patricia Pinky Ndlovu
  • To what extent are we all humans?: Of culture, politics, law. and LGBT rights in Nigeria / Olayinka Akanle, Gbenga S. Adejare, and Jojolola Fasuyi
  • 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.