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Foundational Concepts of Decolonial and Southern Epistemologies

Author : Sinfree Makoni,Anna Kaiper-Marquez,Magda Madany-Saá,Bassey E. Antia
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800418875

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Foundational Concepts of Decolonial and Southern Epistemologies by Sinfree Makoni,Anna Kaiper-Marquez,Magda Madany-Saá,Bassey E. Antia Pdf

This book brings together 11 prominent scholars and political activists to discuss and explore issues around postcolonialism, decoloniality, Theories of the South and Epistemologies of the South. These wide-ranging discussions touch upon issues from academic research methods and writing conventions to global struggles for justice. Together the chapters, as well as the interventions from forum participants which are characteristic of this series, paint a complex and dynamic picture of areas of thought and action that are constantly evolving in response to the demands of a world in flux. The book is a major intervention in current debates about the geopolitics of knowledge, as well as an illustration of the ways in which scholarship in the Global North(s) is indebted to the diverse traditions of scholarship in the Global South(s).

Concept Formation in Global Studies

Author : Gennaro Ascione
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538178430

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Concept Formation in Global Studies by Gennaro Ascione Pdf

The book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Eurocentrism and specism. It elaborates a method enabling global epistemics to cope with multiplex challenges coming from geohistorical as well as epistemological standpoints whose methodological potential remains unexplored. It assumes monstrosity as the generative grammar of a new holistic approach to human knowledge, and draws from postcolonial, decolonial or post-western perspectives to place new methodological cornerstones, as well as from arts, astrology and magic from the Islamic and European Renaissance, indigenous knowledge, genetics, theoretical physics or Afrofuturism. The book aims at provoking a shift in critical perspectives, which do not acknowledge their own inability to steam an appropriate methodology of terminological and conceptual elaboration for the lexicon of contemporary human knowledge, out of a pressing demand: once agreed upon the world as a single yet multilayered spacetime of analysis, how should research about large-scale/long-term processes of social change advance, in order to cope with the asymmetrical power relations that materialize colonial history through heterarchies of class, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, knowledge, cosmology and ecology? This book struggles against the prejudice that the instances heterogeneous yet non canonical epistemics are in fact exclusively confined to provincial, exotic or solipsistic particularisms; therefore never as universalistic as the dominant ones. To address this problem, the book proposes: a different way to think of the relation between the abstract and the concrete; a new relation between data or histories, and concepts; an alternative pathway to cross-cultural translation in conceptual and terminological analysis; a new posture to inhabit the spacetimes at the border between translation and untranslatability.

Translingual Practices

Author : Sender Dovchin,Rhonda Oliver,Li Wei
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009075510

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Translingual Practices by Sender Dovchin,Rhonda Oliver,Li Wei Pdf

Bringing together work from a team of international scholars, this groundbreaking book explores how language users employ translingualism playfully, while, at the same time, negotiating precarious situations, such as the breaking of social norms and subverting sociolinguistic boundaries. It includes a range of ethnographic studies from around the globe, to provide us with insights into the everyday lives of language users and learners and their lived experiences, and how these interact in translingual practices. A number of mixed methodological frameworks are included to study language users' behaviours, experiences and actions, cover the complexity of language evolutionary processes, and ultimately show that precarity is as fundamental to translingualism as playfulness. It points to a future research direction in which research should be pragmatically applied into real pedagogical actions by revealing the sociolinguistic realities of translingual users, fundamentally addressing broader issues of racism, social injustice, language activism and other human rights issues.

Language and Decolonisation

Author : Finex Ndhlovu,Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781040039687

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Language and Decolonisation by Finex Ndhlovu,Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Pdf

Language and Decolonisation is the first collection to bring together views from across scholarly communities that are committed to the agenda of decolonising knowledge in language study. Edited by leading figures in the field, the chapters offer new insights on how ‘decolonising’ can be adopted as a methodology for charting the next steps in solving practical language-related problems in educational and related social policy areas. Divided into two sections, the book covers the coloniality of language, the materiality of culture and colonial scripts, the decolonisation imperative, multilingualism discourse and decolonisation, and decolonising languages in public discourse. With 20 chapters authored by experts from across the globe, this pioneering collection is an essential reference and resource for advanced students, scholars, and researchers of language and culture, sociolinguistics, decolonial studies, racial studies, and related areas.

Epistemologies of the South

Author : Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317260349

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Epistemologies of the South by Boaventura de Sousa Santos Pdf

This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.

The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South

Author : Last Moyo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030528324

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The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South by Last Moyo Pdf

This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity’s histories of imperialism, colonialism, and the ideologies of Eurocentrism and neoliberalism. While Africa and the Global South dismantled the physical empire of colonialism after independence, the metaphysical empire of epistemic and academic colonialism is still intact and entrenched in the postcolonial university’s academic programmes like media and communication studies. To address these problems, Moyo argues for the development of a Southern theory that is not only premised on the decolonization imperative, but also informed by the cultures, geographies, and histories of the Global South. The author recasts media studies within a radical cultural and epistemic turn that locates future projects of theory building within a decolonial multiculturalism that is informed by trans-cultural and trans- epistemic dialogue between Southern and Northern epistemologies.

Decolonizing Epistemologies

Author : Ada María Isasi-Díaz,Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823241354

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Decolonizing Epistemologies by Ada María Isasi-Díaz,Eduardo Mendieta Pdf

This anthology gathers the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and philosopher who have taken up the task of decolonizing epistemology by transforming their respective disciplines from the standpoint liberation thought and of what has been called the "decolonial turn" in social theory, theology, and philosophy. At the heart of this collection is the unveiling of subjugated knowledge elaborated by Latina/o scholars who take seriously their social location and that of their communities of accountability and how these impact the development of a different episteme. Refusing to continue to allow to be made invisible by the dominant discourse, this group of scholars show the unsuspecting and original ways in which Latina/o social and historical loci in the US are generative places for the creation of new matrixes of knowledge. The book articulates a new point of departure for the self-understanding of Latina/os, for other marginalized and oppress groups, and for all those seeking to engage the move beyond coloniality as it continues to be present in this age of globalization.

The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies

Author : Tsitsi Chataika,Dan Goodley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003854715

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The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies by Tsitsi Chataika,Dan Goodley Pdf

This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. It argues that disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies and that progressive disability politics arise from postcolonial concerns. By drawing these two subjects together, this handbook challenges oppression, voicelessness, stereotyping, undermining, neo-colonisation and postcolonisation and bridges binary debate between global North and the global South. The book is divided into eight sections i Setting the Scene ii Decolonising Disability Studies iii Postcolonial Theory, Inclusive Development iv Postcolonial Disability Studies and Disability Activism v Postcolonial Disability and Childhood Studies vi Postcolonial Disability Studies and Education vii Postcolonial Disability Studies, Gender, Race and Religion viii Conclusion And comprised of 27 newly written chapters, this book leads with postcolonial perspectives – closely followed by an engagement with critical disability studies – with the explicit aim of foregrounding these contributions; pulling them in from the edges of empirical and theoretical work where they often reside in mainstream academic literature. The book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies and postcolonial studies as well as those working in sociology, literature and development studies.

Southernizing Sociolinguistics

Author : Bassey E. Antia,Sinfree Makoni
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000772623

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Southernizing Sociolinguistics by Bassey E. Antia,Sinfree Makoni Pdf

This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern sociolinguistics. It showcases voices from the Global South that substitute alternative and complementary narrations of the link between language and society for canonical renditions of the field. Drawing on Southern epistemologies, the volume critically explores the entangled histories of racial colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in perpetuating prejudice in and around language as a means of encouraging the conceptualization of alternative epistemological futures for sociolinguistics. The book features work by both established and emerging scholars, and is organized around four parts: The politics of the constitution of language, and its metalanguage, in the Global South; Who gets published in sociolinguistics? Language in the Global South and the social inscription of difference; and Learning and the quotidian experience of language in the Global South. This book will be of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, critical race and ethnic studies, and philosophy of knowledge. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Epistemologies from the Global South

Author : Cheikh Thiam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040037584

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Epistemologies from the Global South by Cheikh Thiam Pdf

This book argues that the pervasiveness of the modern paradigm and its corollary, the colonial matrix of power, have led scholars of Negritude to think of Leopold Sedar Senghor’s work either as an anti-thesis to the anti-Blackness constitutive of European modernity or as another manifestation of the West as subject of history. As opposed to this tradition, the book reads Negritude through the prism of endogenous African world views without the filter of the modern Western paradigm. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

Intersectional Colonialities

Author : Robel Afeworki Abay,Karen Soldatić
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040027462

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Intersectional Colonialities by Robel Afeworki Abay,Karen Soldatić Pdf

This book provides a rich synthesis of empirical research and theoretical engagements with questions of disability across different practices of colonialism as historically defined – post/de/anti/settler colonialism. It synthesises, critiques, and expands the boundaries of existing disability research which has been undertaken within different colonial contexts through the rich examination of recent empirical work mapping across disability and its intersectional colonialities. Filling an existing gap within the international literature through embedding the importance of grounding these within scholarly debates of colonialism, it empirically demonstrates the significance of disability for the broader scholarly fields of postcolonial, decolonial, and intersectional theories. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, critical studies, sociology of race and ethic relations, intersectionality, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and human geography.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s

Author : Sinfree Makoni,Anna Kaiper-Marquez,Lorato Mokwena
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000600131

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s by Sinfree Makoni,Anna Kaiper-Marquez,Lorato Mokwena Pdf

This Handbook centers on language(s) in the Global South/s and the many ways in which both "language" and the "Global South" are conceptualized, theorized, practiced, and reshaped. Drawing on 31 chapters situated in diverse geographical contexts, and four additional interviews with leading scholars, this text showcases: Issues of decolonization Promotion of Southern epistemologies and theories of the Global South/s A focus on social/applied linguistics An added focus on the academy A nuanced understanding of global language scholarship. It is written for emerging and established scholars across the globe as it positions Southern epistemologies, language scholarship, and decolonial theories into scholarship surrounding multiple themes and global perspectives.

Postcolonial Challenges to Theory and Practice in ELT and TESOL

Author : Hamza R'boul
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000927122

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Postcolonial Challenges to Theory and Practice in ELT and TESOL by Hamza R'boul Pdf

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing inequalities, the book highlights the importance of postcolonial narratives within Global Southern epistemologies in English language teaching (ELT) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Chapters consider the epistemological landscapes of these fields, their dedication to English teaching and English-related topics, and the intersection of the coloniality of language and the supremacy of English worldwide. The book explores the type of discussion that is needed to advance a more nuanced understanding of sociopolitical circumstances and how they shape our academic practices and theorizations of ELT and TESOL. In doing so, chapters examine the current geopolitics of knowledge that are found in journal publishing, citing how it favours the Global North, and further exploring ways of decolonizing language practices, teaching approaches and research cultures. Calling for greater visibility and recognition of Southern ways of knowing within ELT and TESOL practice and research, the book will be an essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of TESOL, ELT, Applied Linguistics and multilingualism.

Anti-colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis

Author : George Jerry Sefa Dei,Meredith Lordan
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Anti-imperialist movements
ISBN : 1433133881

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Anti-colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis by George Jerry Sefa Dei,Meredith Lordan Pdf

Are we living in a post-colonial world? Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis uses case studies from around the world to explore this concept as it relates to education. It takes up the subject of anti-colonial praxis and its specific implications--the larger questions of schooling and education in global contexts.

Decolonizing Geography

Author : Sarah A. Radcliffe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781509541614

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Decolonizing Geography by Sarah A. Radcliffe Pdf

The first book of its kind, Decolonizing Geography offers an indispensable introductory guide to the origins, current state and implications of the decolonial project in geography. Sarah A. Radcliffe recounts the influence of colonialism on the discipline of geography and introduces key decolonial ideas, explaining why they matter and how they change geography’s understanding of people, environments and nature. She explores the international origins of decolonial ideas, through to current Indigenous thinking, coloniality-modernity, Black geographies and decolonial feminisms of colour. Throughout, she presents an original synthesis of wide-ranging literatures and offers a systematic decolonizing approach to space, place, nature, global-local relations, the Anthropocene and much more. Decolonizing Geography is an essential resource for students and instructors aiming to broaden their understanding of the nature, origins and purpose of a geographical education.