Description
Book SynopsisDebates about decolonisation of the mind and of our curricula reveal the dark shadow cast over the world by the adventurers of the modern era, beginning in 1492.
Decolonisation explores questions of justice, injustice and inhumanity that have geographically and intellectually shaped the course of history through overlapping colonial, decolonial and postcolonial eras.
This multidisciplinary collection uses the lenses of history, philosophy, literature and education to examine aspects of colonialism and decolonisation, and their revolutionary and evolutionary manifestations which, contributors argue, occurred simultaneously in the historical and epistemological record. The problems that come into focus have a kaleidoscopic effect on how we come to understand fraught issues, from the ‘invention’ of blacks, to the formulation of the ideology of trusteeship and the obligations to ‘lower civilisations’.
Decolonisation brings together an internationally renowned group of scholars to showcase their search for decolonial strategies within their disciplinary focus, covering ideas such as the different layers at which colonialism operates, strategies for a decolonisation that does not recolonise, and the importance of preserving and publishing in indigenous languages.
This is a much-needed reference book for students and scholars in the field of decolonisation, history, philosophy and pedagogy. The introductory chapter offers a clear and concise primer to this complex subject, covering colonialism, imperialism, decoloniality, and the various actors involved.
Table of Contents
- Acronyms
- Introduction Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives – David Boucher and Ayesha Omar
- Chapter 1 The Invention of Blacks: Notes on Conquest, Fear and Time – Ndumiso Dladla
Chapter 2 The Decolonisation of Southern Africa: Historical Reflections – Chris Saunders
- Chapter 3 The Border of Trust at Kat River for Coloured Settlers, 1851–1853 – Christopher Allsobrook and Camilla Boisen
- Chapter 4 Decolonisation and the Enduring Legacy of Colonial Borders in Africa – Ian S. Spears
- Chapter 5 Fanon’s Challenge: Identity, Recognition and Ideology – David Boucher
- Chapter 6 Beyond Redemption: Unsettling Progressive-Romantic Storyings of Colonial Injustice in Western Critical Thought – Michael Elliott
- Chapter 7 The Limits of Decolonisation and the Problem of Legitimacy – Paul Patton
- Chapter 8 Decolonisation – Real and Imagined – Steven Friedman
- Chapter 9 Decolonisation and the Crisis of African Literature in the Twenty-First Century
– Sule Emmanuel Egya
- Chapter 10 Pedagogical Disobedience in an Era of Unfinished Decolonisation – Amber Murrey
- Contributors
- Index
