Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms

Volume II: Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and Migration
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52357-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 7298 g

Reihe: Annals of the International Institute of Sociology

Volume II of Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms continues the broad themes of radicalisms and conservatisms that were examined in volume I. Like volume I, the essays examine why the two “isms” of radicalisms and conservatisms should not be viewed as mere irreconcilable conceptual tools with which to categorize or structure knowledge. The volume demonstrates that these concepts are intertwined, have multiple and diverse meanings as perceived and understood from different disciplinary vantage points, hence, the deliberate pluralization of the terms. The twenty-two essays in the volume show what happens when one juxtaposes the two concepts and when different peoples’ lived experiences of politics, pop culture, democracy, liberalism, the environment, colonialism, migration, identities, and knowledge, etc. across the length and breadth of Africa are brought to bear on our understandings of these two particularisms.

Contributors are: Adesoji Oni, Admire M. Nyamwanza, Akin Tella, Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle, Bamidele Omotunde Alabi, Charles Nkem Okolie, Craig Calhoun, Diana Ekor Ofana, Edwin Etieyibo, Folusho Ayodeji, Gabriel Akinbode, Godwin Oboh, Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, Julius Niringiyimana, Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya, Maxwell Mudhara, Muchaparara Musemwa, Nathan Osareme Odiase, Obvious Katsaura, Okpowhoavotu Dan Ekere, Olaniran Olakunle Lateef, Omolara V. Akinyemi, Owen Mafongoya, Paramu Mafongoya, Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule,
Rutanga Murindwa, Sandra Bhatasara, Takesure Taringana, Tunde A. Abioro, Victor Clement Nweke, William Muhumuza, and Zainab M. Olaitan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Etieyibo, Edwin

Katsaura, Obvious

Musemwa, Mucha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Boxes, Maps and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Edwin Etieyibo, Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa

PART 1: Pop-Culture, Identities, Knowledge, and Politics

1 Knowledge and Social Transformations in Africa

Craig Calhoun

2 Belongingness and Obligation to the Community: Rethinking the Foundation for Human Flourishing in the 21st Century

Victor Clement Nweke and Charles Nkem Okolie

3 Democracy, Politics, and the Media in Nigeria

Edwin Etieyibo and Godwin Ehiarekhian Oboh

4 Implications of Ubuntu for Ordinary Encounters in South Africa: A Philosophical Enquiry

Diana Ekor Ofana

5 Axiological Proximisation and Discourse Strategies in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Anti-establishment Songs

Akin Tella

6 Multiple Social Identities: A Theoretical Review of the Complexities of Conflicting Social Identities

Ayodeji Folusho, Akinbode A. Gabriel and Nathan Osareme Odiase

7 Discourse on Restructuring in Nigeria

Edwin Etieyibo

PART 2: Environment, Climate Change and Justice

8 Ezi n’ulo as an African Paradigm for Eco-conservation

Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya

9 ‘De-Epistemiciding’ Knowledge in the Quest for Environmental Justice in Post-colonial Africa

Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle

10 Climate Injustice and the Role of Climate Justice Movements in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe

Sandra Bhatasara and Admire M. Nyamwanza

11 The Role of Local Institutions in Building Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptive Capacity against Climate Change Impacts in Bikita, Zimbabwe

Owen Mafongoya, Paramu Mafongoya and Maxwell Mudhara

PART 3: Colonialism and Globalization

12 The Anti-colonial Revolution Converse: Limitations of Nationalism and the Demands of Positive Freedom and Positive Justice

Joseph C. A. Agbakoba

13 Developing Nations and the Imperatives of Globalization

Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule

14 Racism, Colonialism and African Philosophy

Edwin Etieyibo

15 Global Oil Capital and the Alienation of Women Land Rights in Uganda’s Oil Village Communities (OVC s)

Julius Niringiyimana, William Muhumuza and Rutanga Murindwa

16 Enclavism and Dependency: Coffee Production and Illusive Development in Zimbabwe

Takesure Taringana

17 Enlightenment Ideas and Colonialism

Zainab Monisola Olaitan

18 Mental Decolonization: Towards a Self-reliant Africa

Okpowhoavotu Dan Ekere

PART 4: Migration and Economy

19 A Liberal World With or Without Borders

Edwin Etieyibo

20 Trafficking and Migration Crises in West Africa: The Case of Nigeria and Benin Republic Border

Tunde A. Abioro and Omolara Victoria Akinyemi

21 Dialectics of Migration as a Vital Household Investment Strategy in Nigeria and a Major Source for Libya’s ‘Slave’ Market

Bamidele Omotunde Alabi

22 Unemployment, Youth Restiveness and Skills Development in Nigeria

Adesoji A. Oni and Olakunle Lateef Olaniran

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edwin Etieyibo, PhD (2009), University of Alberta, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. His most recent works include Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum; Method, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy; Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms I: Politics, Poverty, Marginalization and Education and African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective.

Obvious Katsaura, PhD (2013), University of the Witwatersrand, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests are at the intersections of the fields of transnational urbanism, transnational religiosity, religious urbanism, urban politics and urban violence.

Muchaparara Musemwa, PhD (2003), University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, is Professor of History and Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of Water, History and Politics in Zimbabwe: Bulawayo’s Struggles with the Environment, 1894-2008 (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2014).