Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780857459510
  • 9780857459527
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.6 23
LOC classification:
  • JZ1318 .N425 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART 1: GLOBAL IMPERIAL DESIGNS AND EMPIRE -- Chapter 1 Empire and Global Coloniality Towards a Decolonial Turn -- Chapter 2 Global Imperial Designs and Pan-Africanism -- Chapter 3 Coloniality of Power and African Development -- PART 2: SUBJECT, SUBJECTION AND SUBJECTIVITY -- Chapter 4 The Ticklish Subject in Africa -- Chapter 5 Subjection and Subjectivity in South Africa -- Chapter 6 Nationality of Power in Zimbabwe -- PART 3: COLONIALITY, KNOWLEDGE AND NATIONALISM -- Chapter 7 Coloniality of Knowledge and Higher Education -- Chapter 8 The African National Project and National Question -- PART 4: CONCLUSION -- Chapter 9 Global Crisis and Africa Today -- References -- Index
Summary: Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa’s subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author’s sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART 1: GLOBAL IMPERIAL DESIGNS AND EMPIRE -- Chapter 1 Empire and Global Coloniality Towards a Decolonial Turn -- Chapter 2 Global Imperial Designs and Pan-Africanism -- Chapter 3 Coloniality of Power and African Development -- PART 2: SUBJECT, SUBJECTION AND SUBJECTIVITY -- Chapter 4 The Ticklish Subject in Africa -- Chapter 5 Subjection and Subjectivity in South Africa -- Chapter 6 Nationality of Power in Zimbabwe -- PART 3: COLONIALITY, KNOWLEDGE AND NATIONALISM -- Chapter 7 Coloniality of Knowledge and Higher Education -- Chapter 8 The African National Project and National Question -- PART 4: CONCLUSION -- Chapter 9 Global Crisis and Africa Today -- References -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa’s subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author’s sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)