دانلود کتاب Africa at the Crossroads: Theorising Fundamentalisms in the 21st Century

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Cover
Title page
Copyright page
List of Contributors
Contents
Chapter One - Theorising Fundamentalisms and Fetishisms in the 21st Century
Terrorist Africa or Terrorised Africa? Fundamentalism and Terrorism in the World
Chapter Outlines
References
Chapter Two - “Humanitarian” Fundamentalism: Interrogating “Global” Processes of Fishing in African Troubled Waters
Introduction
Fishing in Troubled African Waters: Retracing the Strangulations and Tribulations
The “Humanitarianism” of Genetically Modified Food and Herbicides Donations
Conclusion
References
Chapter Three - On the Coloniality of Research in Africa: The Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Introduction: Epistemic Justice and Fundamentalisms
Ignorance, Coloniality and Fundamentalisms
Africa as the “field” is Part of the Colonial Matrix of Power
The speaking individual and the devil that is the detail
Curing their Ills with our Superior Knowledge
When Black Lives are not seen Through Colonial Lenses
Accounting for Differences
Power-Knowledge: The Making of Sexuality
Scholarship on HIV/AIDS in Africa: Engendering African AIDS
The politics of location: Who speaks for whom and why?
Conclusion
References
Chapter Four - Poverty and Fundamentalism in Africa
Introduction
Poverty and Fundamentalism
Poverty in Africa
Poverty, Wars and Development in Africa
Poverty, Inequality and Democracy in Africa
Religious Fundamentalism
Christian Fundamentalism
Islamic Fundamentalism
Economic Fundamentalism
References
Chapter Five - Questioning the Cult of the State: Evangelicals on the Zimbabwean National Pledge 2014-2016
Introduction
The Historical Background
The Minister’s Position on the National Pledge
Responses to the National Pledge
Religious versus State Fundamentalism
Conclusion
References
Chapter Six - Foot Soldiers of the New Empire or Horizontal Saviours? Interrogating Civil Society Organisations and Fundamentalisms in Twenty-First Century Africa
Introduction
Deliverance to Godly Freedom or Deliverance to the Imperial Leviathan? Coloniality and the New Empire
Possessing the Genes of Missionaries of the Old? The Fundamentalism of Resilient Missionary Callings
Mozambique
Kenya
Conclusions
References
Chapter Seven - Dismantling Fundamentalisms in Science:T railing Feyerab End’s Epistemological Anarchism and the Place of African Science
Introduction
What is African Science?
Paul Feyerabend and epistemological anarchism
Reading Feyerabend in the Practice of African Science
Could African Conceptual Frames be Fundamentalist?
Traditional Medicine as an example of modern-day practice of African Science
Conclusion
References
Chapter Eight - Fetishisation of Knowledge: A Case of Patriotic History in Zimbabwe
Introduction
The concept of fundamentalism(s)
Land reform, Patriotic history and Third Chimurenga
Fetishising Knowledge
Conclusion
References
Chapter Nine - History, culture, religion and [under-]development in Africa
Introduction
Religion and slavery
Religion and colonialism as two bedfellows
[Under] development
Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Chapter Ten - Interfacing the Past and the Present: Traditional Leaders, Politics and Materialism in Zimbabwe since the Pre-colonial Period
Introduction
Material benefits of traditional leaders during the pre-colonial period
Material pursuits of traditional leaders during the colonial period
The disempowerment of traditional leaders from independence to the late 1990s
Material benefits offered to traditional leaders by the ZANUPF government
Materialism and political polarisation among traditional leaders in 21st century Zimbabwe
The way forward: Traditional leaders as agents of development and mediators in political violence
Conclusion
References
Chapter Eleven - A Constitutional ‘Gamble’: Re-visiting the COPAC Driven Constitutional Making Process in Zimbabwe
Introduction
Background to the COPAC process
The unfolding of the COPAC led constitutional initiative
A critical reflection of the process
Logistical challenges
An inhibiting environment
Political party influence and coaching
Citizen attendance and participation
Special interest groups
Racial discrimination
The timing of the constitution making process
Media reforms
Concluding Remarks
References
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