African feminist epistemic communities and decoloniality

IF 1.3 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
A. Okech
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Abstract

Decolonization as a pathway to transforming higher education institutions in the United Kingdom has led to quick fixes such as ‘diversity’ hires and reviewing syllabi thus sidestepping the fundamental structural deficits that demand these efforts. The Eurocentricism that continues to shape knowledge production and transfer processes sits at the heart of demands for decolonization. Therefore, decolonization projects require an attentiveness to how power travels within universities as sites that are argued to be arbiters of knowledge production. This article examines how decolonization projects in universities in the United Kingdom and South Africa ignore the invisible labour and penalties that accompany this work by illustrating the wider constellations of gender and racialized power operating within them. I draw on the experiences of feminist academics to offer emancipatory teaching praxis emerging from African feminist epistemic communities to rethink decolonization projects.
非洲女权主义认知社区与去殖民化
非殖民化作为改变英国高等教育机构的途径,导致了诸如“多元化”招聘和审查教学大纲等快速解决办法,从而回避了需要这些努力的基本结构性缺陷。继续影响知识生产和转移过程的欧洲中心主义是非殖民化要求的核心。因此,非殖民化项目需要关注权力如何在大学内部传播,因为大学被认为是知识生产的仲裁者。本文考察了英国和南非大学的非殖民化项目如何通过说明在其中运作的更广泛的性别和种族化权力星座,来忽视伴随这项工作而来的无形劳动和惩罚。我借鉴女权主义学者的经验,提供来自非洲女权主义认知社区的解放式教学实践,以重新思考非殖民化项目。
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Critical African Studies
Critical African Studies Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
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期刊介绍: Critical African Studies seeks to return Africanist scholarship to the heart of theoretical innovation within each of its constituent disciplines, including Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Law and Economics. We offer authors a more flexible publishing platform than other journals, allowing them greater space to develop empirical discussions alongside theoretical and conceptual engagements. We aim to publish scholarly articles that offer both innovative empirical contributions, grounded in original fieldwork, and also innovative theoretical engagements. This speaks to our broader intention to promote the deployment of thorough empirical work for the purposes of sophisticated theoretical innovation. We invite contributions that meet the aims of the journal, including special issue proposals that offer fresh empirical and theoretical insights into African Studies debates.
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