Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity

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Produktbeschreibung

The author's sharply critical perspective reveals how an epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781782381938
• ISBN-10: 1782381937
• Artikelnr.: 42968748

Autorenporträt

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is the director of the Archie Mafeje Research Institute (AMRI) and is also a professor in the Department of Development Studies at the University of South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
PART I:  GLOBAL IMPERIAL DESIGNS AND EMPIRE
Chapter 1. Introduction: Empire and Global Coloniality-Towards a Decolonial
Turn
Chapter 2. Global Imperial Designs and Pan-Africanism
Chapter 3. Coloniality of Power and African Development
PART II: SUBJECT, SUBJECTION AND SUBJECTIVITY
Chapter 4.  The Ticklish Subject in Africa
Chapter 5. Subjection and Subjectivity in South Africa
Chapter 6. Nationality of Power in Zimbabwe
PART III: COLONIALITY, KNOWLEDGE AND NATIONALISM
Chapter 7. Coloniality of Knowledge and Higher Education
Chapter 8. African National Project and National Question
PART IV: CONCLUSION
Chapter 9. Global Crisis and Africa Today
Bibliography