Title Africanity and Ubuntu as decolonizing discourse / Otrude Nontobeko Moyo

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG , [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations Series Human rights interventions Human rights interventions. Contents Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Situating Ubuntu Outside the Power of Coloniality -- Situating the Study of Ubuntu within Lived Experiences of Africa -- Starting Where One Is -- Voice as a Guide in Understanding Ubuntu -- Voice as Autobiography -- Voice as Witness -- Decolonializing Methods: Voice as Preoccupation -- Voice as Discerning Other Voices, Listening for Voice -- Voice as Dialogue: Researching and Learning Together -- Voice as Interpretation -- References -- 2 Unpacking Public Discourses of Ubuntu a Decoloniality Approach Introduction: Why a Decoloniality Approach? -- My Own Positionality as I Read Ubuntu -- Reading Ubuntu in Public Discourse -- Excavating the Meaning of Ubuntu in Written Texts -- Paradoxes in Prevailing Notions of Ubuntu -- Ubuntu as Personhood -- Ubuntu as the Essence of "Being" Human-Relationality -- Ubuntu as Human Value-Claims to Human Dignity -- Ubuntu as a Worldview Encompassing Every Facet of African Life -- The Contextual Definition of Ubuntu and Its Varied Meanings -- Figure 2.1: A Summary of Emerging Public Discourses of Ubuntu, 1990s-Present -- Uses of Ubuntu Discourses Ubuntu Images -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves: Diverse Realities and Perspectives on Ubuntu in Eastern Cape, South Africa -- Ubuntu-Situating the Voices of Ordinary People -- Developing the Portraits and Using Narratives -- Ordinary Folks, Extraordinary Perspectives of Ubuntu: What Does Ubuntu Mean to You? -- Ubuntu as Ethics of Care for One Another -- Ubuntu as Positive Affirmation of "Africanness" -- Ubuntu as Absent or Broken -- The Absence of Ubuntu Interpersonally, Structurally, and Culturally -- Ubuntu as Return to Indigeneity Awareness of Our Sociopolitical Context and Environment -- Regeneration of Community Through the Land -- Intentional Spiritual and Relational Consciousness -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Performing Africanity Southern African Immigrants' Perspectives on Ubuntu -- A Brief Overview of the Research Process: (W)Riting Ourselves -- Ubuntu as Regeneration of Community -- Ubuntu as (W)Riting Our Own Narratives -- Ubuntu as Spiritual Consciousness -- Ubuntu as Performing Africanity -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Africanity and Decolonizing Discourses: Ubuntu Emerging Perspectives Ubuntu and Positionality -- Contextual Definitions of Ubuntu -- Emerging Public Discourses of Ubuntu -- Emerging Perspectives on Ubuntu and the African Aesthetic -- Ubuntu as African Lived Realities (Ontology) -- Ubuntu as a Knowledge System (Epistemology) -- Ubuntu as Axiology: What Things Are Valued? -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Index Summary This book explores and discusses emerging perspectives of Ubuntu from the vantage point of ordinary people and connects it to human rights and decolonizing discourses. It engages a decolonizing perspective in writing about Ubuntu as an indigenous concept. The fore grounding argument is that ones positionality speaks to particular interests that may continue to sustain oppressions instead of confronting and dismantling them. Therefore, a decolonial approach to writing indigenous experiences begins with transparency about the researchers own positionality. The emerging perspectives of this volume are contextual, highlighting the need for a critical reading for emerging, transformative and alternative visions in human relations and social structures. Otrude Nontobeko Moyo is a Social Work Professor & Program Director at Indiana University South Bend, USA Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed September 1, 2021) Subject Decolonization -- Africa Ubuntu (Philosophy) Human rights -- Africa National characteristics, African. Human rights. Politics & government. Sociology. Law -- International. Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy. Social Science -- Sociology -- General. Decolonization Human rights National characteristics, African Ubuntu (Philosophy) Africa Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030597856 3030597857

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