Beyond Decolonisation: Bridging Disciplines, Rethinking Futures
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A bold and timely intervention, Beyond Decolonisation: Bridging Disciplines, Rethinking Futures asks the question many have avoided: what comes after decolonisation? Moving across education, law, culture, migration, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary volume explores how colonial power endures and how more just, plural, and imaginative futures can be made. Grounded in African and global contexts, it goes beyond critique to offer fresh thinking on transformation, belonging, epistemic justice, and human flourishing. Urgent, original, and wide-ranging, this is an essential book for anyone rethinking knowledge, institutions, and possibility in the contemporary world.
Authors
Jonathan Jansen is Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University and Past President of the Academy of Science of South Africa. As a curriculum theorist, he specialises in the politics and poetics of knowledge.
Shireen Motala is NRF/DHET SARChI Chair: Teaching and Learning (Tier 1) at the University of Johannesburg. Prof Motala has held numerous leadership roles related to higher education. An NRF-rated researcher, her research record is substantial.
Marcina Singh is an interdisciplinary higher education researcher working between South Africa and the Netherlands. She previously served as the Acting Deputy Director at the Centre for International Teacher Education, at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
Beyond Disciplines: African Perspectives on Theory and Method
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Beyond Disciplines: African Perspectives on Theory and Method
To what extent can we go beyond disciplinary boundaries to produce knowledge on Africa that has emancipatory and transformational power? Beyond Disciplines: African Perspectives on Theory and Method, attempts to address this question. Among the critical issues covered by contributors to the book include the limitations of Eurocentric approaches on illuminating and explaining African social contexts; the value of critical African scholarship to our understanding of the continent’s political economy of development; the descriptive, explanatory, and predictive potency of interpretivist emancipatory approaches vis-à-vis positivist developmental ones; the significance of gender power analysis for understanding women’s experiences of violent extremism; application of social science research across research communities on the critical issue of environmentalism; as well as theorising the confluence of internal displacement, weaponisation and agency of women and violent extremism. The book, authored by scholars from multiple disciplinary backgrounds based at institutions across three continents, underscores the imperative value of transformational epistemologies for Africa and demonstrates that the generation of such epistemologies is contingent upon collaborative knowledge-production projects across epistemic communities.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.555
ISBN : 978 2 38234 092 9
Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o, PhD, is a Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. His research interest lies in democratisation, identity politics, social conflict, governance and development. Nasong’o has been honoured with the Rhodes College’s Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity, and the Ali Mazrui Award for Research and Scholarly Excellence from the University of Texas at Austin.
Eka Ikpe, PhD, is a Reader and Director, African Leadership Centre at King’s College London. Her themes of interest include developmentalism, industrial development and structural transformation, peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction and the economic costs of conflict and creative economies.
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