Overview
- Assembles critical perspectives of scholars in African studies
- Focuses on positionality and agency in the scholarship of teaching, learning, and researching Africa
- Reflects on the roles academics play in everyday knowledge production and dissemination
Part of the book series: Political Pedagogies (PP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
Centering Africa as a subject of study, Decolonizing African Studies Pedagogies offers nuanced, realistic, thought-provoking, and rich menu of ideas for addressing epistemic racism and disrupting oppressive structures of knowledge creation and mobilization. A great book for those seeking a fairer and an equitable world.
—Thomas Kwasi Tieku, King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario, Canada.
The theme and collection constitute a timely and an impressive cutting-edge contribution to both the theorizing and praxis of epistemic agency. This book will be powerful scholarly and practical reference for students and scholars across academic disciplines as well as practitioners and policymakers in treating with priority the defining knowledge matter.
—N’Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, Cornell University, USA.
This book makes a vigorous contribution to the struggle for epistemic decolonisation from Eurocentrism. It is daring yet still accessible. Just like that, the contributors masterfully attain the elusive balance between realistic cynicism and uplifting hope. Read this book and learn! It’s a gift to us.
—Leon Moosavi, Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool, UK
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nathan Andrews is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.
Nene Ernest Khalema is Professor and Dean/Head of School of Built Environment & Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decolonizing African Studies Pedagogies
Book Subtitle: Knowledge Production, Epistemic Imperialism and Black Agency
Editors: Nathan Andrews, Nene Ernest Khalema
Series Title: Political Pedagogies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37442-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37441-8Published: 17 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37444-9Due: 25 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37442-5Published: 16 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-7809
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7817
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 236
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour