Black(ness) in German African Studies
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Edited by:
Stephanie Lämmert
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Funded by:
VolkswagenStiftung
About this book
By zooming in on African Studies in Germany, this book deals with questions around knowledge production on Africa and its diaspora; the workings of epistemic and geographic locations in "knowing" Africa; anti-Black structures in German academia; the making and sustaining of a canon and the role of the university as a gate-keeper of certain knowledges; and renderings of universalism and African history. It also engages with the specific German unease and delay to remember its colonial past and the attached problematique of discussing race and Blackness in Germany. As such, the collection interrogates the history, politics and affects of these developments within the project and politics of knowledge production on Africa. It features chapters written by students of African Studies based in different Universities in Germany from the B.A. to the Ph.D. level. The volume highlights their fresh insights on and theorizations of African Studies from their historically grounded epistemic and geographic locations. The chapters also problematize the disconnect between African Studies and African(a) Studies, critiquing how the fetishization of the "local" and the "micro" informs and shapes Africanist scholarship.
Thoughts on African Studies: Conversations at ASWAD and ASAA ConferencesAuthor / Editor information
Serawit B. Debele, University of Bayreuth, Germany; Stephanie Lämmert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
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Part I: African Studies from Different Geographic and Epistemic Locations
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Faheem Hemboum Open Access Download PDF |
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Samah Khalaf Allah and Asma Ben Hadj Hassen Open Access Download PDF |
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Taariqa-Rahamat Adepeju Ilupeju Open Access Download PDF |
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Darius Adu Bright and Adey-Fana Tefera Open Access Download PDF |
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Part II: Universalisms from Black Perspectives
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Samir Ammour Open Access Download PDF |
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Laetitia Caumes Open Access Download PDF |
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Part III: Anti-Black Structures in the Academic Landscape and the Archive Question
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Olive J. Casey Open Access Download PDF |
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Jaqueline Steinberger Open Access Download PDF |
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Part IV: Diaspora Identities
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Anna Frehiwot Maconi Open Access Download PDF |
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Sadia Marie Ouro-Gbele Open Access Download PDF |
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