Foundational Concepts of Decolonial and Southern Epistemologies

2023-10-06 Political Science

Author : Sinfree Makoni
Release : 2023-10-06
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Foundational Concepts of Decolonial and Southern Epistemologies written by Sinfree Makoni. This book was released on 2023-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

2024-06-13 Philosophy

Author : Gennaro Ascione
Release : 2024-06-13
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Concept Formation in Global Studies by : Gennaro Ascione

Download or read book Concept Formation in Global Studies written by Gennaro Ascione. This book was released on 2024-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Language and Decolonisation

2024-07-23 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Finex Ndhlovu
Release : 2024-07-23
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Language and Decolonisation written by Finex Ndhlovu. This book was released on 2024-07-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Translingual Practices

2024-05-09 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Sender Dovchin
Release : 2024-05-09
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Translingual Practices written by Sender Dovchin. This book was released on 2024-05-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Research Handbook on Communication and Prejudice

2024-08-06 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Elvis Nshom
Release : 2024-08-06
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Research Handbook on Communication and Prejudice written by Elvis Nshom. This book was released on 2024-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative Research Handbook brings together a unique combination of methodological, philosophical and theoretical perspectives to present a comprehensive overview of communication and prejudice research

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