Decolonising transdisciplinary research approaches: an African perspective for enhancing knowledge integration in sustainability science
| Autor: | Bagele Chilisa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Sustainable development
Indigenization Global and Planetary Change Health (social science) Sociology and Political Science Ecology 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Sustainability science 050301 education 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Indigenous Knowledge-based systems Knowledge integration Argument Mainstream Engineering ethics Sociology Social science 0503 education 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Science. 12:813-827 |
| ISSN: | 1862-4057 1862-4065 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11625-017-0461-1 |
| Popis: | The main argument in this article is that methodologies rooted in African philosophies, worldviews, and history, bring to the academic discourse, alternative ways of conducting research. Such methodologies question academic and methodological imperialism, and bring to the centre problem and solution-driven research agendas. The methodologies epitomise indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) as a body of thought that embraces all knowledge systems, and legitimise ILK holders, practitioners, and communities as scholars and authors of what they know and how it can be known. The article gives examples of how mainstream methodologies based on European/Western paradigms marginalise other knowledge systems. It illustrates the contested process of integrating academic and ILK. It further discusses the philosophical foundations of methodologies rooted in African cultures and how these methodologies can inform a decolonisation and indigenisation of sustainability science and transdisciplinary research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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