Knowledge Production and the Search for Epistemic Liberation in Africa (eBook)

Dennis Masaka (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2022
X, 233 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-07965-8 (ISBN)

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This book shows the importance of knowledge production using requisite terms and frameworks to the broader scheme of epistemic liberation in Africa. The text considers what this veritable direction to knowledge production would mean to other areas of concern in African philosophy such as morality, education and the environment.  These contributions are important because the success of decolonising projects in African countries depend upon the methods that underpin envisioned liberative knowledge production in light of Africa's historical and present condition. This volume appeals to students and researchers working in epistemology and African philosophy.

?Dennis Masaka obtained a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of South Africa in 2016. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe. He is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Free State, South Africa (2019-2023). His research interests are in knowledge production in Africa, philosophy of liberation, decolonisation and epistemic justice. He has published a number of papers in reputable journals such as Social Epistemology, South African Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Papers, African Identities Journal, Journal of Black Studies, Education as Change, African Study Monographs, Journal of Negro Education, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Alternation Journal, Journal on African Philosophy & CODESRIA Bulletin. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2022
• Zusatzinfo: X, 233 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Schlagworte: africa and epistemicide • African epistemologies • African higher education • African indigenous knowledges • Coloniality of Knowledge • decolonisation and philosophy • epistemic conquest • epistemic freedom in africa • epistemic liberation • Indigenous knowledge in Africa • Knowledge Production • knowledge production in africa • western and african philosophy
• ISBN-10: 3-031-07965-5 / 3031079655
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-07965-8 / 9783031079658