Tag: African studies
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Knowing – Unknowing. African Studies at the Crossroads.
A new Open Access book edited by Katharina Schramm and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new horizons of knowledge appear and new epistemic practices (e.g.…
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Anthropology Lecture Series #4: Decolonizing the Study of the State: Max Weber, Colonialism and African Studies
by Aharon De Grassi Register here: https://t.co/xC6zf2Obao 24.05.2022 at 18:30 CET Conceptualizing the state, corruption, and patronage is crucial to understanding and pursuing justice and liberation, so how are we to grapple with problematic aspects of these concepts’ genealogies involving colonial, racist, and sexist thought and practice? Especially important is the prominent comparative political sociologist…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 