Titel
Changing the Frame: New Epistemic Frameworks and Social Transformation in African Feminist Theory
Autor*in
Anke Graness
University of Hildesheim
Autor*in
Martina Kopf
Abstract
This article discusses African feminist approaches to decolonization and social transformation. In recent years, there has been a significant shift in African feminist scholarship towards African concerns and Africa-centered solutions. Today’s turn to Indigenous knowledge, social structures, and gender relations is no longer just about shedding light on the precolonial past, but about fundamentally changing the epistemic framework in the sense of developing alternative epistemologies beyond the dominant ‘Western’ framework. But what is meant by ‘alternative epistemologies’? How do African feminist thinkers conceptualize social change today? And how do they relate epistemic and social change in their thinking? These questions are explored in this article, focusing on work by Sylvia Tamale (Uganda), Wangari Maathai (Kenya), and Anthonia Kalu (Nigeria) and drawing on the discourse of ecofeminism and Ubuntu as two models of alternative epistemologies.
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2086317
Erschienen in
Titel
The Monist
Band
107
Ausgabe
3
ISSN
0026-9662
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Seitenanfang
279
Seitenende
293
Verlag
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Projektnummer
V554 – Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
© The Author(s), 2024

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