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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483744703321

Autore

Moyo Otrude Nontobeko

Titolo

Africanity and Ubuntu as Decolonizing Discourse / / by Otrude Nontobeko Moyo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030597856

3030597857

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Human Rights Interventions, , 2946-5125

Disciplina

895.134

325.3096

Soggetti

Africa - Politics and government

Human rights

Knowledge, Sociology of

African Politics

Human Rights

Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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 .

Sommario/riassunto

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.