The Politics of Cultural Knowledge

Cover......Page 1
The Politics of Cultural Knowledge......Page 4
ISBN: 9789460914805 (hardback)......Page 5
DEDICATION......Page 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10
FOREWORD......Page 12
1. INTRODUCTION: The Politics of Cultural Knowledge......Page 16
LOCATION OF ESSAYS......Page 18
REFERENCE......Page 21
INTRODUCTION......Page 22
INDIGENOUS THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AS AN ANTI-COLONIAL TOOL......Page 23
HISTORICAL ROOTS OF AFRICAN FEMINISM......Page 24
WHAT IS AFRICAN FEMINISM?......Page 28
DECOLONIZATION AND RESISTANCE: THINKING THROUGH A FEMINIST LENS......Page 31
AFRICAN FEMINISM AS ACTIVISM......Page 32
CONCLUSION......Page 33
REFERENCES......Page 34
INTRODUCTION......Page 38
MODERNITY AND POST-COLONIAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 41
AN IMMIGRANT’S STORY: IMPLICATING MYSELF IN TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS OF PROGRESS......Page 43
Photographs of Progress......Page 44
Branding the Self Through Imported Goods......Page 46
IMPERIALISM’S CONTINUATION AND THE UNEASE OF DECOLONIZATION......Page 49
REFERENCES......Page 51
INTRODUCTION......Page 52
CITIZENSHIP AND HUMANISM......Page 53
THEORIZING CULTURE, DIASPORA AND KNOWLEDGE FORMATION......Page 54
ETHNICITY AND QUESTIONS CONCERNING CULTURAL RESOURCES OF THE DIASPORA......Page 55
MASS MEDIA SURVEILLANCE OF THE DIASPORA......Page 57
MODERNITY AND THE GOVERNANCE OF ENLIGHTENED SUBJECTIVITIES......Page 59
PERMANENCE AND FLUX: THE EBB OF TRANSNATIONAL CULTURE......Page 62
CONCLUSION......Page 63
REFERENCES......Page 64
INTRODUCTION – HISTORY, MYSTORY, OURSTORY......Page 66
PART I – CONTENDING WITH THE INSIDER VOICE......Page 68
Our Understanding of Izzat......Page 72
Honorably Dead then and Now......Page 73
Living a Double Life......Page 79
CONCLUSION......Page 83
REFERENCES......Page 84
INTRODUCTION......Page 86
TOWARDS UBUNTU INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHIES......Page 87
OUR SPIRITUALITY, OUR RITUALS, OUR CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS......Page 88
OUR LANGUAGE......Page 90
HOW MASEKO GOVERNANCE ADDRESS CONTEMPORARY LIFE......Page 91
CONCLUSION......Page 93
REFERENCES......Page 94
ANTI-COLONIALISM AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES IN EDUCATION......Page 98
IMPACT OF WESTERN IDEOLOGIES IN JAPAN......Page 100
LANGUAGE AS A POWERFUL TOOL OF COLONIZATION......Page 101
POWER OF WORDS AND THOUGHTS......Page 103
ETHNOMEDICINE......Page 104
CONCLUSION......Page 105
REFERENCES......Page 106
INTRODUCTION......Page 108
ON LOCATION .........Page 110
MARTIN BERNAL’S BLACK ATHENA......Page 111
MOLEFI ASANTE’S THE EGYPTIAN PHILOSOPHERS......Page 114
MAULANA KARENGA’S MAAT: THE MORAL IDEAL......Page 116
Sample Assignment #1......Page 119
Description......Page 120
Corresponding Ontario Ministry of Education Expectations5......Page 121
NOTES......Page 122
REFERENCES......Page 123
INTRODUCTION......Page 126
CULTURAL REPRESENTATION AND RESISTANCE: EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES......Page 127
THE COLOR OF THEORY, KNOWLEDGE AND COLONIAL EDUCATION......Page 130
DECOLONIALIZATION: WHOSE PROJECT SHOULD IT BE? TOWARDS A LIBERATING PEDAGOGY......Page 132
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 134
REFERENCES......Page 135
INTRODUCTION......Page 136
‘STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE’ AND INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR CHANGE......Page 137
PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR CHANGE......Page 139
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION & PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES......Page 141
‘COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS’: A BREAK WITH CONVENTION......Page 143
INTERGROUP DIALOGUE AND SOCIAL CAPITALS......Page 144
DIALOGUE AS RESISTANCE......Page 146
DIALOGUE AND EMPOWERMENT......Page 147
CONCLUSION......Page 148
NOTES......Page 149
REFERENCES......Page 150
INTRODUCTION......Page 152
THE ARTICULATION OF DEVELOPMENT BY RURAL EMBU WOMEN IN KENYA......Page 153
HOLISTIC INDIGENOUS MODELS OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 155
PATRIARCHY IN AFRICA......Page 156
PERCEPTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 160
DISCUSSION......Page 161
CONCLUSION......Page 165
REFERENCES......Page 166
12. CONCLUSION......Page 170
REFERENCES......Page 174
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 176