Africanity and Ubuntu as Decolonizing Discourse

ISBN-13: 9783030597870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str.

Otrude Nontobeko Moyo

Opis

This book explores and discusses emerging perspectives of Ubuntu from the vantage point of “ordinary” people and connects it to human rights and decolonizing discourses. It engages a decolonizing perspective in writing about Ubuntu as an indigenous concept. The fore grounding argument is that one’s positionality speaks to particular interests that may continue to sustain oppressions instead of confronting and dismantling them. Therefore, a decolonial approach to writing indigenous experiences begins with transparency about the researcher’s own positionality. The emerging perspectives of this volume are contextual, highlighting the need for a critical reading for emerging, transformative and alternative visions in human relations and social structures.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: Situating Ubuntu Outside the Power of Coloniality

Chapter 2. Unpacking Public Discourses of Ubuntu:  A Decoloniality Approach

Chapter 3. Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves: Diverse Realities and Perspectives on Ubuntu in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Chapter 4. Performing Africanity: Southern African Immigrants’ Perspectives on Ubuntu

Chapter 5.  Africanity and Decolonizing Discourses: Ubuntu Emerging Perspectives​

O autorze

Otrude Nontobeko Moyo is a Social Work Professor & Program Director at Indiana University – South Bend, USA.

Blurb

This book explores and discusses emerging perspectives of Ubuntu from the vantage point of “ordinary” people and connects it to human rights and decolonizing discourses. It engages a decolonizing perspective in writing about Ubuntu as an indigenous concept. The fore grounding argument is that one’s positionality speaks to particular interests that may continue to sustain oppressions instead of confronting and dismantling them. Therefore, a decolonial approach to writing indigenous experiences begins with transparency about the researcher’s own positionality. The emerging perspectives of this volume are contextual, highlighting the need for a critical reading for emerging, transformative and alternative visions in human relations and social structures.

Otrude Nontobeko Moyo is a Social Work Professor & Program Director at Indiana University – South Bend, USA.