Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of Technocolonialism: Recentring African Indigenous Knowledge and Belief Systems - Tapa blanda

 
9789956551866: Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of Technocolonialism: Recentring African Indigenous Knowledge and Belief Systems
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ISBN 10: 9956551864 ISBN 13: 9789956551866
Editorial: Langaa RPCIG, 2020

Sinopsis

Positing the notions of coloniality of ignorance and geopolitics of ignorance as central to coloniality and colonisation, this book examines how colonialists socially produced ignorance among colonised indigenous peoples so as to render them docile and manageable. Dismissing colonial descriptions of indigenous people as savages, illiterate, irrational, prelogical, mystical, primitive, barbaric and backward, the book argues that imperialists/colonialists contrived geopolitics of ignorance wherein indigenous regions were forced to become ignorant, hence containable and manageable in the imperial world. Questioning the provenance of modernist epistemologies, the book asks why Eurocentric scholars only contest the provenance of indigenous knowledges, artefacts and scientific collections. Interrogating why empire sponsors the decolonisation of universities/epistemologies in indigenous territories while resisting the repatriation/restitution of indigenous artefacts, the book also wonders why Westerners who still retain indigenous artefacts, skulls and skeletons in their museums, universities and private collections do not consider such artefacts and skulls to be colonising them as well. The book is valuable to scholars and activists in the fields of anthropology, museums and heritage studies, science and technology studies, decoloniality, policymaking, education, politics, sociology and development studies.

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Acerca de los autores

Artwell Nhemachena holds a PhD in Social Anthropology. He lectures at the University of Namibia. He is also a Research Fellow in the College of Humanities of the University of South Africa, Pretoria.

Nokuthula Hlabangane holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She teaches at the University of South Africa, Pretoria.

Joseph Z. Z. Matowanyika is a Professor at the Chinhoyi University of Technology where he is the Director of the Institute of Lifelong Learning and Development Studies. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

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Editorial
Langaa RPCIG
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
9956551864
ISBN 13 
9789956551866
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
350
Editor
Nhemachena Artwell, Matowanyika Joseph Z. Z., Hlabangane Nokuthula
Contacto del fabricante
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