Decolonising the Human

Reflections from Africa on Difference and Oppression

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting 'the human' in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressionsThe '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 of those excluded as the different and inferior Other, the less than human. Speaking from Africa, a key site where the category of the human has been used throughout European modernity to control, exclude and deny equality of being, the contributors use decoloniality as a potent theoretical and philosophical tool, gesturing towards a liberated, pluriversal world where human difference will be recognised as a gift, not used to police the boundaries of the human. Here is a transdisciplinary critical exploration of a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and decolonial studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-03-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:395 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Wits University Press
ISBN:9781776146512

Utforska kategorier

Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Melissa Steyn (Editor) Melissa Steyn holds the South African National Research Chair in Critical Diversity Studies and is the founding director of the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies. She is best known for her publications on whiteness and white identity in post-apartheid South Africa.William Mpofu (Editor) William Mpofu is a researcher at the WITS centre for diversity studies at the University of Witwatersrand. He is also a member of the Africa Decolonial Research Network.

Innehållsförteckning

Acronyms and AbbreviationsChapter 1 The Trouble with the Human - William Mpofu and Melissa SteynChapter 2 The Invention of Blackness on a World Scale - Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Patricia Pinky NketeChapter 3 To What Extent Are We All Humans? Of Culture, Politics, Law and LGBT Rights in Nigeria - Olayinka Akanle, Gbenga S. Adejare and Jojolola FasuyiChapter 4 Humanness and Ableism: Construction and Deconstruction of Disability - Sibonokuhle NdlovuChapter 5 Doing the Old Human - Cary BurnettChapter 6 Being a Mineworker in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Decolonial Perspective - Robert MasekoChapter 7 Meditations on the Dehumanisation of the Slave- Tendayi SitholeChapter 8 'Language as Being' in the Politics of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Brian SibandaChapter 9 The Underside of Modern Knowledge: An Epistemic Break from Western Science - Nokuthula HlabanganeChapter 10 The Fiction of the Juristic Person: Reassessing Personhood in Relation to People - C.D. Samaradiwakera-WijesundaraChapter 11 The Cultural Village and its Idea of the 'Human' - Morgan NdlovuChapter 12 A Fragmented Humanity and Monologues: Towards a Diversal Humanism - Siphamandla ZondiContributorsIndex

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Siphamandla Zondi, Tendayi Sithole, Brian Sibanda, Charmika Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara, Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sibonokuhle Ndlovu, Pinky Patricia Ndlovu, Morgan Ndlovu, Robert Maseko, Nokuthula Hlabangane, Jojolola Fasuyi, Cary Burnett, Olayinka Akanle, Gbenga S Adejare, William Mpofu, Melissa Steyn, William Mpofu, Melissa Steyn