Crossing Fields and Worlds
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Köp båda 2 för 1251 krHighlights the need for syncretic knowledge systems which include knowledges, knowledge producers, and the intelligensia of the southern regions to be accepted as equals with those of the North. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS * [This volume] should point the way for equity and inclusion in the context of seeing Africa-centered research and products on equal footing with Euro-centric and Afro-centric paradigms. * AFRICAN & ASIAN STUDIES * The book thus contains a huge diversity of subject matter, which is drawn together by a common interrogation of dominant ways of knowing and a quest for holding open alternatives. . . . It is a book to be recommended to any reader interested in moving beyond the tired binaries of 'western' versus 'indigenous' knowledge. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY * Contains a rich assembly of ideas and observations. * ANTIPODE * The book contains many valuable thoughts and quotable statements, including a note that Hegel believed that the great historical dialectic bypassed Africa altogether, as well as insights about the relation between epistemology and method, the freeing and inhibiting qualities of classification systems, and the potential danger of knowing. * ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW DATABASE * highlights the need for syncretic knowledge systems which include knowledges, knowledge producers, and the intelligensia of the southern regions to be accepted as equals wiht those of the North. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *
Introduction: the possibility of Africa-centred knowledges - PART ONE Epistemology: struggles over meaning-making Validated knowledge: confronting myths about Africa by Lansana Keita Re-theorizing the indigenous knowledge debate by Lesley Green Battlefields of knowledge: conceptions of gender in development discourse by Signe Arnfred Knowing time: temporal epistemology in the African novel by Bill Ashcroft Black boxes and glass jars: classification in the hunt for Africa-centred knowledge by Brenda Cooper 'This is a robbers' system': popular musicians' readings of the Kenyan state by Mbugua wa-Mungai - PART TWO Policy and practice: applying the knowledge Science, fishers' knowledge and Namibia's fishing industry by Barbara Paterson, Marieke Norton, Astrid Jarre and Lesley Green ICT for development: extending computing design concepts by Ulrike Rivett, Gary Marsden and Edwin Blake 'Good houses make good people': making knowledge about health and environment in Cape Town by Warren Smit, Ariane de Lannoy, Robert VH Dover, Estelle V Lambert, Naomi Levitt and Vanessa Watson Men of God and gendered knowledge by Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Michael PK Okyerefo Retrieving the traces of knowledge-making while editing a book on postgraduate writing by Linda Cooper and Lucia Thesen Hunhuism (personhood) and academic success in a Zimbabwean secondary school by Leadus Madzima