Osha African Postcolonial Modernity

Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-44693-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: African Histories and Modernities

African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Osha, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Polis: From Greece to an African Athens 2. The Order/Other of Political Culture 3. Urbanscapes 4. Violence and the Production of Knowledge 5. Politics from the Global South 6. Global Activism and Discourses of Dispossession in South Africa 7. African Sexualities I 8. African Sexualities II 9. Yearnings of Modernity

Über Autor(innen)

Sanya Osha holds a PhD in Philosophy and has published extensively on anthropology, cultural studies, knowledge systems of Africa, the politics of the West African region, and the sociopolitical and cultural realities of Southern Africa. He joined the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Tshwane University of Technology as a research fellow in 2009.