دانلود کتاب Decolonising The Human: Reflections From Africa On Difference And Oppression

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Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acronyms and abbreviations......Page 8
1 The Trouble with the Human......Page 10
The philosophical dilemma of the human in the Global South......Page 12
The human and war in the modern world......Page 16
Violence and knowing the human......Page 20
Being human in the modern colonial world order......Page 23
Organisation of the book......Page 25
References......Page 30
2 The Invention of Blackness on a World Scale......Page 34
The invention of blackness on a world scale......Page 40
Blackness: from dismemberment to re-membering......Page 45
Conclusion......Page 49
References......Page 51
3 To What Extent Are We All Humans? Of Culture, Politics, Law and LGBT Rights in Nigeria......Page 55
Theoretical and philosophical bases of the humanity of human beings: the LGBT corridor......Page 57
The trajectory of LGBT issues in Nigeria......Page 59
The social dimension of LGBT rights in Nigeria......Page 60
The political dimension of LGBT rights in Nigeria......Page 62
The law and legal framework of LGBT rights in Nigeria......Page 63
Existentialities of LGBT rights in Nigeria......Page 66
Conclusion......Page 69
References......Page 70
4 Humanness and Ableism: Construction and Deconstruction of Disability......Page 74
Making the invisible visible......Page 75
Tracing disability construction......Page 78
Construction of disability: the notion of dehumanisation......Page 81
Barriers confronted by persons with impairments......Page 83
Everyone is human: deconstruction of disability......Page 85
Bringing back the body: the corporeality of disability......Page 86
Emancipation through decoloniality......Page 87
Intersectionality......Page 89
Conclusion......Page 91
References......Page 92
5 Doing the Old Human......Page 95
References......Page 116
6 Being a Mineworker in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Decolonial Perspective......Page 118
The history of mining in South Africa......Page 119
Decolonial understanding of a mineworker in South Africa......Page 123
The socio-economic condition of a black mineworker......Page 126
Sondela informal settlement......Page 127
Jabula Hostel......Page 128
Diseases, injuries and compensation......Page 130
Conclusion......Page 133
References......Page 135
Interviews......Page 138
7 Meditations on the Dehumanisation of the Slave......Page 139
References......Page 151
8 ‘Language as Being’ in the Politics of Ngu˜gi˜ wa Thiong’o......Page 152
Language and being......Page 155
Wa Thiong’o goes naked......Page 160
Conclusion......Page 168
References......Page 169
9 The Underside of Modern Knowledge: An Epistemic Break from Western Science......Page 173
Coloniality of knowledge, power and being......Page 175
Modernity/coloniality......Page 177
Modernity/coloniality and social evolution......Page 179
The primacy of Western science: history and context......Page 181
The nature of science......Page 184
HIV/Aids as an über othering site......Page 186
Conclusion......Page 191
References......Page 192
10 The Fiction of the Juristic Person: Reassessing Personhood in Relation to People......Page 195
Unpacking the nature and purpose of juristic personality......Page 197
Similarity of design and purpose: an ideological golden thread......Page 202
Colonialism and the company’s participation in zones of being......Page 205
The modern company: (post)-colonial South Africa and the Constitution......Page 207
Limitations of human rights: serving the zone of being......Page 211
Possibilities of the fiction/construct: power and responsibility of the state to govern......Page 213
References......Page 215
11 The Cultural Village and its Idea of the ‘Human’......Page 218
The modern world system and the invention of the sub-human......Page 219
The modern world system and the politics of knowing......Page 222
The ‘brighter side’ and ‘darker side’ of cultural village tourism in South Africa......Page 224
References......Page 230
12 A Fragmented Humanity and Monologues: Towards a Diversal Humanism......Page 233
The human line and humanism of a colonial nature......Page 234
An alternative humanism is possible: the will to co-exist is necessary......Page 240
Implications for Africa......Page 244
Practically speaking: an alternative humanism......Page 246
Conclusion......Page 248
References......Page 249
Contributors......Page 252
Index......Page 256
Back Cover......Page 261