Title Africa at the Crossroads : Theorising Fundamentalisms in the 21st Century / edited by Artwell Nhemachena & Munyaradzi Mawere

Published Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (330 pages) Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; List of Contributors; Contents; Chapter One -- Theorising Fundamentalisms and Fetishisms in the 21st Century; Terrorist Africa or Terrorised Africa? Fundamentalism and Terrorism in the World; Chapter Outlines; References; Chapter Two -- "Humanitarian" Fundamentalism: Interrogating "Global" Processes of Fishing in African Troubled Waters; Introduction; Fishing in Troubled African Waters: Retracing the Strangulations and Tribulations; The "Humanitarianism" of Genetically Modified Food and Herbicides Donations; Conclusion; References Chapter Three -- On the Coloniality of Research in Africa: The Case of HIV/AIDS in South AfricaIntroduction: Epistemic Justice and Fundamentalisms; Ignorance, Coloniality and Fundamentalisms; Africa as the "field" is Part of the Colonial Matrix of Power; The speaking individual and the devil that is the detail; Curing their Ills with our Superior Knowledge; When Black Lives are not seen Through Colonial Lenses; Accounting for Differences; Power-Knowledge: The Making of Sexuality; Scholarship on HIV/AIDS in Africa: Engendering African AIDS; The politics of location: Who speaks for whom and why? Conclusion References; Chapter Four -- Poverty and Fundamentalism in Africa; Introduction; Poverty and Fundamentalism; Poverty in Africa; Poverty, Wars and Development in Africa; Poverty, Inequality and Democracy in Africa; Religious Fundamentalism; Christian Fundamentalism; Islamic Fundamentalism; Economic Fundamentalism; References; Chapter Five -- Questioning the Cult of the State: Evangelicals on the Zimbabwean National Pledge 2014-2016; Introduction; The Historical Background; The Minister's Position on the National Pledge; Responses to the National Pledge Religious versus State FundamentalismConclusion; References; Chapter Six -- Foot Soldiers of the New Empire or Horizontal Saviours? Interrogating Civil Society Organisations and Fundamentalisms in Twenty-First Century Africa; Introduction; Deliverance to Godly Freedom or Deliverance to the Imperial Leviathan? Coloniality and the New Empire; Possessing the Genes of Missionaries of the Old? The Fundamentalism of Resilient Missionary Callings; Mozambique; Kenya; Conclusions; References Chapter Seven -- Dismantling Fundamentalisms in Science:T railing Feyerab End's Epistemological Anarchism and the Place of African ScienceIntroduction; What is African Science?; Paul Feyerabend and epistemological anarchism; Reading Feyerabend in the Practice of African Science; Could African Conceptual Frames be Fundamentalist?; Traditional Medicine as an example of modern-day practice of African Science; Conclusion; References; Chapter Eight -- Fetishisation of Knowledge: A Case of Patriotic History in Zimbabwe; Introduction; The concept of fundamentalism(s) Summary This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people. The book valiantly rethinks and unpacks these forms of fundamentalisms and fetishisms, offering in the process critical vistas for students, scholars and activists on matters of decoloniality and transformation. By meticulously and painstakingly unpacking pertinent issues, the book provides unparalleled intellectual milestones and platforms for the oncoming revolution and quest for justice in the form of decoloniality and transformation. Drawing from several disciplinary domains such as Development Studies, Security Studies, Political Anthropology and Sociology, Economic Anthropology and Social studies, English Studies, History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and drawing from scholars from across different universities in the Southern African region, the book provides multiple lenses from which to understand the complex goings on in a continent that can no longer afford to simply fold hands and watch while its citizens suffer multiple forms of coloniality, fetishisms and fundamentalisms Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Land reform, Patriotic history and Third Chimurenga Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 13, 2017).] Subject HISTORY -- Africa -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies. Civilization Economic history Social conditions Fundamentalismus Neokolonialismus Fetischismus SUBJECT Africa -- 21st century Africa -- Civilization -- 21st century Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century Subject Africa Simbabwe South Africa Afrika Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Nhemachena, Artwell Mawere, Munyaradzi ISBN 9789956762576 9956762571

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