African Epistemologies for Criticality, Decoloniality and Interculturality

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-01989-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: New Perspectives on Teaching Interculturality

This book addresses the underrepresentation and, more importantly, the misrepresentation of African epistemologies and traditions of thought in theorizing, making sense of, and doing interculturality.

Africa remains (probably) the most oppressed and silenced sphere throughout centuries of colonialism and contemporary coloniality. Therefore, such an anthology provides a platform for those insights that have substantial epistemic capacity to alter our taken-for-granted notions of what interculturality is and what it is about. While a number of works have charted the contributions of African epistemologies in advancing our understanding of our intercultural realities, this book argues that the processes of decoloniality through and within interculturality have never been about (under) (mis)representation per se, but about how the politics of representation can provide inaccurate, tokenistic and false inclusion. This book aims to substantiate the notion that decoloniality and interculturality are mutually inclusive, to demonstrate the affordances of African epistemologies in advancing intercultural knowledge, and to support the need to make visible philosophical and power-literate approaches to interculturality.

The book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in African philosophy, African epistemology, and, more broadly, interculturality and intercultural communication.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

R'Boul, Hamza

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Madkhal  Part 1: Epistemology and Criticality in Navigating Interculturality  2. Wole Soyinka: Critical Theory and Indigenous Mythology  3. Between ‘Modernity’ and ‘Contemporaneity’: Toward a Critical Theory of Interculturality  4. Historicising African Epistemology: Postcolonial, Decolonial and Trans-colonial Dimensions  Part 2: Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice through and within Interculturality  5. Interculturality, Decoloniality, and Epistemic Justice: A North African Perspective  6. Roots and horizons: Decolonizing intercultural discourse through African epistemologies  7. Interculturality as Epistemic Decolonization: through Appropriate  Part 4: Disrupting White Western Dominance  8. Interfacing with Euro - American Epistemologies from an African Perspective: Views from two Zimbabwean Humanities Scholars  9. Interculturality and White Cultural Hegemony in South African Professional Psychology  10. Why We Need Decolonial Methods in the Humanities

Über Autor(innen)

Hamza R’boul is a research assistant professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching and postcoloniality. His books include Intercultural Communication Education and Research: Reenvisioning Fundamental Notions (Routledge, 2023, with Dervin), and Postcolonial Challenges to Theory and Practice in ELT and TESOL: Geopolitics of Knowledge and Epistemologies of the South (Routledge, 2023).