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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452803703321

Autore

Nabudere D. Wadada

Titolo

Afrikology and transdisciplinarity [[electronic resource] ] : a restorative epistemology / / by Dani Wadada Nabudere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pretoria, : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2012

ISBN

0-7983-0284-4

1-280-87547-X

0-7983-0313-1

9786613716781

0-7983-0312-3

0-7983-0314-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of - Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; A Restorative Epistemology; In memory of Prof Dani Wadada Nabudere - an Ode to an African Intellectual Giant; Contents; Introduction; A. Restorative movement; B. What is justice?; 1. Theoretical Problems. Revealed By The Research; 2. The Central Problem: A Fragmented Polarised Worldview; A. The historical origin of the problem; B. Hermeneutic attempt to resolve the problem; 3. Quantamasisation And Transdisciplinarity; A. The quantum leap; B. The transdisciplinary manifesto; 4. Research, Method And Methodology; A. The building blocks

B. Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences: The problem of epistemologyC. Hermeneutics and the sciences; i) Cognitive psychology and the schema theory; ii) Geometry and 'triangulation'; iii) Simulation and modelling; iv) Relational theory and philosophy; 5. Science, Non-Science And Co-Evolution; 6. Afrikology And Research; A. Continuity of the word; B. The spiritual and ethical foundations of the word; 7. Transdisciplinarity And The Word; A. A reconvergence of man and nature; B. Towards a theory of collective action; C. Social innovation; D.



Integral innovation; E. Social constructivism

F. Agricology and a global green economy8. The Deconstruction Of The Hegemonic Undirectional Scholarship; A. The recovery of ancient Egypt as black civilisation; B. Anthropology; C. History; D. African studies; E. African women andfeminist-gender studies; F. African philosophy; 9. Research, Language And Epistemology; 10. Indigeneous Knowledge Systems And Afrikology; 11. A Against Anti-Humanism; Conclusion; References; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph is intended to examine the epistemology of restorative rights in view of the continuing violation of rights in all aspects of life on the African continent and other parts of the world. It is based on the research, which the Marcus Garvey Pan-Afrikan Institute undertook between 2006ñ2008, under a cross-disciplinary research project entitled Restorative Justice and its Relationship to International Humanitarian Law, which resulted in a Comprehensive Report that was later discussed at an international conference in Nairobi in August 2008. This conference was opened by the Prime Mi