Thinking with the South
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Edited by:
Andrea Fleschenberg
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Funded by:
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
About this book
This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came out of the Berlin-based "co2libri" networking initiative, with longstanding collaborative partners based in the global South. "Co2libri" stands for "conceptual collaboration: living borderless research interaction". As an interdisciplinary and transregional oriented initiative, co2libri envisages a multicentric perspective that integrates neglected positions of Southern theory and praxis into the heart of academic conversations. Co2libri’s collaborative endeavor builds on long-standing active connections with partners in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Instead of setting an agenda from the North, it proposes to figure out ways forward through collaborative engagement, building on relationships of mutual trust. Using formats that facilitate substantial and open-ended discussion, we are re-thinking theory and method, academic practices, and research ethics, while keeping material inequalities in view.
Contributors to this edited volume are working toward the implementation of various innovative activities, research perspectives and collaboration formats which all subscribe to the principle of dialogue on equal footing with scholars and activists based in divergent positionalities along and beyond the Global North-South divide. In different ways, the authors work toward the goal of producing more adequate, and more sensitive, critical knowledge, and applying a fresh view to approach, methods, and ethical standards. Overall, the volume works, sometimes in exploratory ways, with alternative frames of reference while it presents diverse theorizations of lived experiences.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface and Acknowledgements
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About the Cover Image
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Introduction: Reframing, Re-enacting Research and Collaboration
1 - Part One: Openings
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What Good Is Southern Theorising?
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Marxism, Communitarianism and Communalism in Africa
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Forum I: Decolonising Academic Cooperation
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Forum II: ‘Reversing the Gaze’?! – Revisiting a Key Concept
95 - Part Two: Reflections
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The Conflicted Decolonial Scholar: A Journey Through the Dialectics of Becoming, Un-becoming and Being, in Struggle with the People
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Feminist Research and Civil Society Engagement as Scholactivism: The Case of the Women and Memory Forum in Egypt
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Pragmatic Research, Critical Knowledge and Political Relevance: A Self-Reflexive Perspective
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Whose Stories, Whose Voices, Whose Narratives? Challenging the Western Gaze on Afghanistan – Exploring Ethical Knowledge Co-Production in Afghanistan
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Academic Tamasha and Its Limits under the Shadow of Authoritarianism
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Hegemony and Decolonising Research Praxis: A Researcher’s Journey in the Peripheries of Pakistan
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A Political Ecology of Remembering for Dayaks of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
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Visualising Research in South Asia Beyond Pandemic Times: Reflections and Future Directions
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List of Contributors
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