Full Description
This groundbreaking book brings together scholars to explore African epistemologies as underrepresented and misrepresented sociologies of knowledge in interculturality research, challenging dominant narratives and promoting epistemic justice.
The volume affirms the validity of African perspectives based on their originality and non-derivativeness rather than their status of invisibility. It contributes to a critical reflection on how African spheres and epistemologies can be represented and ultimately understood as homogeneous entities, denying the particularities of their situated acts and processes of knowing. The contributors argue that (a) theorizing and practicing interculturality otherwise requires 'looking elsewhere' by foregrounding knowledge from spheres often marginalized by dominant mainstream discourses; (b) African stories, discourses, and epistemologies are crucial for enunciating interculturality through innovative and original knowledge and thus advancing the field. The book aims to promote diverse African interculturalities, strengthen alternative theorization methods, and position interculturality as a theory of hermeneutics and liberation that African people can draw upon to navigate and understand their own and others' experiences.
This book will be essential read for scholars and students of intercultural communication, sociology, African studies, and philosophy.
Contents
1. Tamhid Part 1 Alternative Praxes for Interculturality 2. Performing Arts as Cultural Decolonial Praxis in MENA: Applied Models from Egypt 3. Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu: Proverbial Lore and African Interculturalism 4. Embracing Africa(n)-centric Cultural Ethical Codes for Gender Agency Towards Equitable and Sustainable Research Praxis at African Institutions 5. Ordering Diversity, Governing Culture: The Emergence of Interculturality Regimes Part 2 Africanizing Intercultural Philosophy 6. The Epistemic Risks and Rewards of Intercultural Philosophy 7. How Global Philosophers Could Learn from Intercultural Exchanges with Africa 8. Africa's Ubuntu Philosophy: Intercultural Perspectives and Experiences of Global South Allies Part 3 Interculturality for Decolonial Resistance 9. Interculturality as a Veil of Exclusion: The Marginalization of Morocco in Global Self-Representation Through Tourism and the Transition from Travelogues to Photography 10. Algerian Women's Claustrophobic Experiences in the Sacred and the Profane in Assia Djebar's Children of the New World (2005) 11. Songlines as Transoceanic Intercultural Archives: A Case Study on the Swahili Creole Zikrs of the Siddis in Gujarat
