| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 211 pages) |
| Contents |
Forward. The Power of Knowing / Crain Soudien. pt. II. Epistemology -- Struggles Over Meaning-Making. 1. Validated Knowledge -- Confronting Myths about Africa / Lansana Keita -- 2. Re-theorizing the Indigenous Knowledge Debate / Lesley Green -- 3. Battlefields of Knowledge -- Conceptions of Gender in Development Discourse / Signe Arnfred -- 4. Knowing Time -- Temporal Epistemology & the African Novel / Bill Ashcroft -- 5. Black Boxes & Glass Jars -- Classification in the Hunt for Africa-centred Knowledge / Brenda Cooper -- 6. ̀This is a Robbers' System' -- Popular Musicians' Readings of the Kenyan State / Mbugua Wa Mungai |
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pt. II. Policy & Practice -- Applying the Knowledge. 7. Science, Fishers' Knowledge & Namibia's Fishing Industry / Lesley Green -- 8. ICT for Development -- Extending Computing Design Concepts / Edwin Blake -- 9. ̀Good Houses Make Good People' -- Making Knowledge about Health & Environment in Cape Town / Vanessa Watson -- 10. Men of God & Gendered Knowledge / Michael Pk Okyerefo -- 11. Retrieving the Traces of Knowledge-making while Editing a Book on Postgraduate Writing / Lucia Thesen -- 12. Hunhuism (Personhood) & Academic Success in a Zimbabwean Secondary School / Leadus Madzima |
| Summary |
Proposes a dynamic new approach to the production of knowledge on Africa, one that is global, multiple and heterogeneous, elucidating this through both discursive theoretical chapters and case histories |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of -- Africa
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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sociology of knowledge.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
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Historiography
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Knowledge, Theory of
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cooper, Brenda, editor
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Morrell, Robert, editor
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Soudien, Crain, contributor
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| ISBN |
9781782043652 |
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1782043659 |
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