Decolonising the Human Reflections from Africa on difference and oppression
Heftet /
2021
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781776146512
Publisert
2021-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Wits University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264
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Om bidragsyterne
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 is a researcher at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is also a member of the Africa Decolonial Research Network.
Gbenga S Adejare is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Olayinka Akanle is Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Cary Burnett has a background in directing, writing and editing. Her MA dissertation focussed on new forms of youth programming.
Jojolola Fasuyi is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Nokuthula Hlabangane is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Robert Maseko is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Morgan Ndlovu is Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Pinky Patricia Ndlovu is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology at the University of South Africa and a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sibonokuhle Ndlovu is a postdoctoral fellow at Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Research Professor and Director of Scholarship in the Department of Leadership and Transformation (DLT) in the Principal and Vice-Chancellor’s Office at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Charmika Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara is a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg School of Law, Associate Researcher at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa.
Brian Sibanda is Researcher, Facilitator and Academic Literacy Coordinator in the Unit for Language Development, Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Tendayi Sithole is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa. He is a founding member of Africa Decolonial Research Network.
Siphamandla Zondi is a professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and coordinates the Department's Institute for Strategic and Political Affairs.
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. 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.
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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.
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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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African scholars examine the construction of ‘the human’ as it’s been conceived through the power of coloniality, arguing for indigenous knowledge systems and traditional wisdom to be part of the conversation.
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Here is a fine articulation of the social and political constructions that have been central to the removal and disqualification of some human beings from the human family. It is an important and timely contribution to the field of decolonial studies, especially now when African scholars are grappling with the need to decolonise the space and the mind. – Kezia Batisai, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781776146512
Publisert
2021-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Wits University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
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 is a researcher at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is also a member of the Africa Decolonial Research Network.
Gbenga S Adejare is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Olayinka Akanle is Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Cary Burnett has a background in directing, writing and editing. Her MA dissertation focussed on new forms of youth programming.
Jojolola Fasuyi is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Nokuthula Hlabangane is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Robert Maseko is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Morgan Ndlovu is Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Pinky Patricia Ndlovu is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology at the University of South Africa and a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sibonokuhle Ndlovu is a postdoctoral fellow at Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Research Professor and Director of Scholarship in the Department of Leadership and Transformation (DLT) in the Principal and Vice-Chancellor’s Office at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Charmika Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara is a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg School of Law, Associate Researcher at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa.
Brian Sibanda is Researcher, Facilitator and Academic Literacy Coordinator in the Unit for Language Development, Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Tendayi Sithole is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa. He is a founding member of Africa Decolonial Research Network.
Siphamandla Zondi is a professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and coordinates the Department's Institute for Strategic and Political Affairs.