Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa

Language, Literature and Religion

Tobias Marevesa, Ernest Jakaza, Esther Mavengano (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XVII, 229 Seiten

2024 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-35533-2 (ISBN)

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This book, Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Language, Literature and Religion, contributes to the polemical conversations about existing architectures of knowledge and research practices in postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa. It creates an academic platform for multi-interdisciplinary research that brings to the fore inspiring efforts to break away from long-standing disciplinary bordering thinking and practices in modern-day sub-Saharan Africa. This distinctive edited collection is a valuable resource for scholars, researchers and students of multi-interdisciplinary research across the globe. The volume also promotes wide-ranging research focused on how to address complexities which hamper the promise of multi-interdisciplinary research in contemporary sub-Saharan African contexts. It provides thought-provoking perspectives on academic conversations about the uniqueness of embracing multidisciplinary research. The traditional methods of interpretation are challenged by the radical emerging demand to shift from a mono-disciplinary thinking to a cross-disciplinary epistemic endeavour in order to successfully address unfolding problematic realities that demand the pursuit of novel heuristic terrains.

Tobias Marevesa is Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, UNISA, South Africa.

Ernest Jakaza is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication, Film and Theatre Arts at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe and Research Fellow at the University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa. .

Esther Mavengano is a lecturer who teaches Linguistics and Literature in the Department of English and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. She is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, College of Human Sciences, UNISA, South Africa, and also a von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at TU (Techische Universistat Dresden) Institute of English and American Studies, Department of English, Germany.

1. New directions in multidisciplinary knowledge production in sub-Saharan Africa: An introduction.- 2. From 'sitting on the fence' to rhizomatic thinking: An Appraisal of the heuristic 'lines of flight' in multi/inter disciplinary contemporary stylistics.- 3. Rupturing the traditional thought in search of novel heuristic voyages in New Testament studies. New reflections on Narratological methodology.- 4. Postcolonial African feminist research agenda: African women theologians' search for liberating paradigms in oral and written religious and cultural texts.- 5. Discipline, decolonisation and agency.- 6. (Re) thinking and (re)theorising 'multi' and its futures in academic discourse studies.- 7. 'Collective Intelligence' a precursor for multidisciplinary research in Africa: An Appreciative Inquiry Perspective.- 8. Multi-disciplinary Era and shifting methodological pathways in New Testament Studies: A Stylistic paradigm.- 9. Decentring research in African Universities.- 10. "...Get out, you seer! Go back to the Land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there" (Amos 7:12). Deflecting Traditional Disciplinary Boundaries in Biblical Studies.- 11. Methodological and epistemological misconceptions about Mixed Methods Approach amongst university students.- 12. Packaging new wine into old wineskins: Possibilities and challenges of using virtual Ethnography in knowledge production in Zimbabwe.- 13. An interdisciplinary research approach: opportunities and challenges from a Zimbabwean perspective.- 14. Researching Religious Indigenous Knowledge in Zimbabwe: Methodological Issues for African Scholars.- 15. Old Methods and New Methods in sub-Saharan Africa: The Recap.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 229 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	Decolonial Studies • Indigenous Religious Knowledge Studies • interdisciplinary research • Mixed methods researches • multidisciplinary research • postcolonial studies
ISBN-10	3-031-35533-4 / 3031355334
ISBN-13	978-3-031-35533-2 / 9783031355332
Zustand	Neuware