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Africa-centred Knowledges - Crossing Fields and Worlds (Hardcover)
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Africa-centred Knowledges - Crossing Fields and Worlds (Hardcover)
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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. Knowledge production is a highly political and
politicized practice. This book questions the way in which
knowledge of and about Africa is produced and how this influences
development policy and practice. Rebutting both Euro-and
Afrocentric production of knowledge, this collection proposes a
multiple, global and dynamic Africa-centredness in which scholars
use whatever concepts and research tools are most appropriate to
the different African contextsin which they work. In the first part
of the book key conceptual themes are raised and the
epistemological foundations are laid through questions of gender,
literature and popular music. Contributors in the second part apply
andtest these tools and concepts, examining the pressures on
doctoral students in a South African university, the crisis in
knowledge about declining marine fish populations, perplexities
around why certain ICT provisions fail, or how some Zimbabwean
students, despite being beset by poverty, succeed. The light thrown
on the mechanics of how knowledge comes into being, and in whose
interests, illuminates one of the key issues in African Studies.
Brenda Cooper is an Honorary Research Associate at the University
of Manchester. She was for many years the Director of the Centre
for African Studies and a Professor in the English department at
the University of Cape Town, where she is now Emeritus Professor.
Robert Morrell is Coordinator of the Programme for the Enhancement
of Research Capacity at the University of Cape Town.
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