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Author Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961- author

Title Decolonising the Academy / Francis B Nyamnjoh
Published Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, [2020]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
[2020]

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Description 1 online resource (38 pages)
Series Carl Schlettwein lecture ; 14, 2297-7058
Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- FOREWORD -- SETTING THE SCENE: KNOWLEDGE AND GLOBAL POWER -- CREATIVELY COPING WITH EXTRAVERSION AND INEQUALITIES -- FROM IMPERIAL SCIENCE TO RESPECTFUL RELATIONS -- MAKING INTERCONNECTIONS AND PRIORITIZING INTERDEPENDENCIES -- INCOMPLETENESS AND CONVIVIAL SCHOLARSHIP -- DISMANTLING PERIPHERIES OF A DICTATORIAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY -- ENDNOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CARL SCHLETTWEIN LECTURES -- Back cover
Summary "The scarcity of conviviality in universities, within and between disciplines, and among scholars suggests that the position in and production and consumption of knowledge are far from neutral, objective, and disinterested processes. They are socially and politically mediated by webs of humanity, hierarchies of power, and instances of human agency. Given the resilience of colonial education in Africa and among Africans, endogenous traditions of knowledge are barely recognised and grossly underrepresented. Conviviality in knowledge production would entail not just seeking conversations and collaboration with and across disciplines in the conventional sense but also the integration of sidestepped popular epistemologies informed by popular universes and ideas of reality. Such scholarship is predicated upon recognising and providing for incompleteness as a necessary attribute of being, from persons to disciplines and traditions of knowing, and knowledge making."
Notes "Centre for African Studies Basel"--Cover
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Subject 2019.
speeches (form)
decolonization.
science.
anthropology.
Africa.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Education, Higher
Africa -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Switzerland -- Basel
Switzerland -- Basel
Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Basler Afrika Bibliographien, publisher
Project Muse. distributor
ISBN 9783906927268
3906927261