Decolonising African Studies?
| Autor: | Christopher Clapham |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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060101 anthropology
Sociology and Political Science 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Authoritarianism 0507 social and economic geography 06 humanities and the arts 050701 cultural studies Indigenous Knowledge production Politics Political science Political economy 0601 history and archaeology African studies Period (music) Decolonization |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Modern African Studies. 58:137-153 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7777 0022-278X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0022278x19000612 |
| Popis: | Insistent calls to ‘decolonise’ African studies beg the question of what this quest actually involves. If it refers to an attempt to understand the continent's diverse and complex societies that builds on their indigenous structures and values, this was a task initiated during the decolonisation era of the 1950s and early 1960s. Led by historians and drawing heavily on insights from anthropology, it led to a revolution in the understanding of Africa, which nonetheless failed to maintain its impetus as a result of the political authoritarianism and economic decay of the post-independence period, which had a particularly damaging impact on Africa's universities. Of late, however, the phrase has come to refer to developments notably in North America and Europe, which in subordinating the study of Africa to agendas in the global North may appropriately be described not as decolonisation but as recolonisation. A genuine decolonisation of knowledge production for Africa must rest on a return to its roots within the continent itself. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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