Decolonising the Human : Reflections from Africa on difference and oppression /
Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting 'the human' in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions. The 'human' emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. On...
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- The trouble with the human / William Mpofu and Milissa Steyn
- The intervention of blackness on a world scale / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Patricia Pinky Ndlovu
- To what extent are we all humans?: Of culture, politics, law. and LGBT rights in Nigeria / Olayinka Akanle, Gbenga S. Adejare, and Jojolola Fasuyi
- Humanness and ableism: Construction and deconstruction of disability / Sibonokuhle Ndlovu
- Doing the old human / Cary Burnett
- Being a mineworker in post-apartheid South Africa: a decolonial perspective / Robert Maseko
- Meditations on the dehumanisation of the slave / Tendayi Sithole
- 'Language as being" in the politics of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o / Brian Sibanda
- The underside of modern knowledge: an epistemic break from Western science / Nokuthula Hlabangane
- The fiction of the juristic person: reassessing personhood in relation to people / C. D. Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara
- The cultural village and the idea of the 'human' / Morgan Ndlovu
- A fragmented humanity and monologues: towards a diversal humanism / Siphamandla Zondi.