Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa

ISBN-13: 9783031355301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

This book, Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Language, Literature and Religion, contributes to the polemical conversations about existing architectures of knowledge and research practices in postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa. It creates an academic platform for multi-interdisciplinary research that brings to the fore inspiring efforts to break away from long-standing disciplinary bordering thinking and practices in modern-day sub-Saharan Africa. This distinctive edited collection is a valuable resource for scholars, researchers and students of multi-interdisciplinary research across the globe. The volume also promotes wide-ranging research focused on how to address complexities which hamper the promise of multi-interdisciplinary research in contemporary sub-Saharan African contexts. It provides thought-provoking perspectives on academic conversations about the uniqueness of embracing multidisciplinary research. The traditional methods of interpretation are challenged by the radical emerging demand to shift from a mono-disciplinary thinking to a cross-disciplinary epistemic endeavour in order to successfully address unfolding problematic realities that demand the pursuit of novel heuristic terrains.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: New Methods and New Meanings 

2. The Interface of Intertextuality and Cognitive Linguistics in Reading Literary Discourse: Interdisciplinary Sensibilities in Contemporary Zimbabwean Novel 

3. Rupturing the Traditional Thought in Search of Novel Heuristic Voyages in New Testament Studies: New Reflections on Narratological Methodology 

4. Postcolonial African Feminist Research Agenda: African Women Theologians’ Search for Liberating Paradigms in Oral and Written Religious and Cultural Texts 

5. Discipline, Decolonisation and Agency 

6. (Re)thinking and (Re)theorising ‘Multi’ and Its Futures in Academic Discourse Studies

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7. ‘Collective Intelligence’ a Precursor for Multidisciplinary Research in Africa: An Appreciative Inquiry Perspective 

8. Shifting Methodological Pathways in New Testament Studies and Linguistics: A Stylistic Paradigm 

9. Decentring Research in Universities in Africa 

10. What Has Jerusalem to Do with Athens? Deflecting Traditional Disciplinary Boundaries in Biblical Studies 

11. Critiquing the Shona Novel in an Interdisciplinary Manner Through the Social Historical Approach 

12. Breaking Boundaries: Current Research Trends in Zimbabwean Linguistics—A Case of the University of Zimbabwe 

13. Evolution of Multi-disciplinary Philosophies of Method: Colonial Antecedents and Post-colonial

Paradigm Shifts 

14. New Directions in Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production  

O autorze

Tobias Marevesa is Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, UNISA, South Africa.

Ernest Jakaza is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication, Film and Theatre Arts at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe and Research Fellow at the University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa. . 

Esther Mavengano is a lecturer who teaches Linguistics and Literature in the Department of English and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. She is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, College of Human Sciences, UNISA, South Africa, and also a von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at TU (Techische Universistat Dresden) Institute of English and American Studies, Department of English, Germany.