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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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
James Currey,
©2014.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.