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Lecture 1: Introduction (17 items)This lecture will introduce you to the module and give timetable and assignment details.Sources that are very important to read are marked as essential; the reminder arebackground reading, or will help you with your assignment. For more extensive book listson each lecture, see blackboard, under course documents, under each specific lecture.
Key reading (7 items)
Theory from the south, or, How Euro-America is evolving toward Africa - Comaroff, Jean,Comaroff, John L., 2012
Book | Please concentrate on Chapter 1.
Perspectives on Africa: a reader in culture, history, and representation - Grinker, Roy R,Lubkemann, Stephen C., Steiner, Christopher Burghard, 2010
Book | Essential | Please read Chapter 4: Discourse of power and knowledge ofotherness by Mudimbe (2010)
Provocations beyond one’s own presence: towards cultural geographies of development? -Patricia Noxolo, 2016-08-17
Article
Jazeel, T. (2012). Postcolonialism: Orientalism and the geographical imagination.Geography, 97, 4.
Article
Jazeel, T. (2012). Postcolonial spaces and identities. Geography, 97, 60.Article
See also special issues of journals:
Geographical Journal 2006, 172, 1, Special issue: Postcolonialism and Development: NewDialogues?
Singapore Journal of Geography 2006, 27, 3, Special issue: Postcolonial geographies ofdevelopment
Geoforum 2009, 40, 1 Special issue: Postcoloniality, Responsibility and Care
Social and Cultural Geographies 2013, 14, 2 Special issue: Postcolonial migrations
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South African Journal of International Affairs, 20, 1, 2013 Special Issue: 'Emerging' Africa:Critical Transitions
Singapore Journal of Geography 2014, 35, 1. Special issue: Advancing PostcolonialGeographies
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 2016, 3, 3 Special Issue: African ScienceFiction
Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies NEW SERIES: 1, 1, 2013 Special Issue:African Writing in the Twenty-First Century
‘Geography is Pregnant’ and ‘Geography's Milk is Flowing’: Metaphors for a PostcolonialDiscipline? - Pat Noxolo, Parvati Raghuram, Clare Madge, 2008-02
Article
Toward Expanding Links Between Political Geography and African Studies - Garth AndrewMyers, 2014-02
Article
African studies and the postcolonial challenge - R. Abrahamsen, 2003-04-01Article | Essential
Postcolonialism: space, textuality and power - C BarnettChapter
Postcolonialism: space, textuality and powerChapter | Ebook
Perspectives on Africa: a reader in culture, history, and representation - Grinker, Roy R,Lubkemann, Stephen C., Steiner, Christopher Burghard, 2010
Book | Essential | Please see Chapter 1: Introduction
Postcolonialism and development - McEwan, Cheryl, 2009Book | Essential | Please read Chapter 1
Global Rebalancing: Crisis and the East-South Turn - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 2011-01Article
Postcolonialising Geography: Tactics and Pitfalls - Jenny Robinson, 2003-11Article
Geographies of Development: New Maps, New Visions? - James D. Sidaway, 2012-02Article
The Rise of Postcolonial States as Donors: a challenge to the development paradigm? -Clemens Six, 2009
Article
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Lecture 2: The postcolonial frame (22 items)SynopsisThis lecture will introduce the notion of postcolonialism. It will explain how and why apostcolonial approach is useful in understanding contemporary Africa. It will explore thepostcolonial approach through the example of the transatlantic slave trade, showing thatthe legacies of slavery are far reaching and profound for all of us, both in Africa and the‘West’. If we are intricately linked with Africa, I want to argue that it is essential that weconsider our postcolonial responsibility towards Africa. The lecture therefore finishes byasking you: ‘Do you care about the African continent and its people’?
Key reading (8 items)
Black rice: the African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas - Carney, Judith Ann, 2001Book
The wretched of the earth - Fanon, Frantz, 1965Book | Essential
The Place of Africa, in Theory: Pan-Africanism, Postcolonialism, Beyond - Shaden MTageldin, 2014-09
Article
Planetary postcolonialism - James D. Sidaway, Chih Yuan Woon, Jane M. Jacobs, 2014-03Article
Cullen D et al Postcolonialsm in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography -2013
Book
Jazeel, T. (2013). Postcolonialism. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography,15-22
Book
Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world - Parvati Raghuram, ClareMadge, Pat Noxolo, 2009-1
Article | See special issue papers by Noxolo, Newstead and Power
NOXOLO P RAGHURAM P MADGE C (2012) Unsettling responsibility: postcolonialinterventions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 37, 3, 418-429.
Article
The post-colonial studies reader - Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth, Tiffin, Helen, 2006Book
On post-colonial futures: transformations of colonial culture - Ashcroft, Bill, 2001Book
On post-colonial futures: transformations of colonial culture - Ashcroft, Bill, 2001Book
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Black rice: the African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas - Carney, Judith Ann, 2001Book
Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change - Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2012Article
Reflections on the politics and practices of knowledge production beyond theAnglo-American core: An introductory note - Daniel Hammett, Gijsbert Hoogendoorn,2012-11
Article | Essential
The postcolonial science and technology studies reader - Harding, Sandra G., 2011Book | Essential | Ebook. Please read Chapter 7: Out of Africa: Colonial rice history in
the Black Atlantic
The postcolonial science and technology studies reader - Harding, Sandra G, 2011Book | Essential | Please read Chapter 7: Out of Africa: Colonial rice history in the Black
Atlantic by Carney, J (2011)
Postcolonialism and development - McEwan, Cheryl, 2009Book | Essential | Please read Chapter 2
Unsettling responsibility: postcolonial interventions - Pat Noxolo, Parvati Raghuram, ClareMadge, 2012-07
Article
Towards a method for postcolonial development geography? Possibilities and challenges -Parvati Raghuram, Clare Madge, 2006-11
Article
Confronting the ghostly legacies of slavery: the politics of black bodies, embodiedmemories and memorial landscapes - Alan Rice, Johanna C. Kardux, 2012-09
Article
Comparisons: colonial or cosmopolitan? - Jennifer Robinson, 2011-07Article
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography - Nuala C. Johnson, , Richard H.Schein, , and Jamie Winders, 2013
Book
Lecture 3 : Development under the postcolonial lens (15 items)Lecture synopsisThis lecture places development under postcolonial scrutiny. It shows how the early originsof development, as based on enlightenment philosophy, fed into both colonialinterventions and discourse and contemporary forms of post-war development theories,including modernisation theory, neoliberal approaches and contemporary developmentdiscourses. Key concepts of othering (Said), mimicry (Bhabha) and worlding (Spivak) areintroduced. Counter discourses challenge such ways of imagining the world: we explorethe case of African poetry.
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Select an African poet, and read some poems! (e.g. Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), KofiAnyidoho (Ghana), Kofi Awoonor (Ghana), Dennis Brutus (South Africa), Abbe Gubenga(Ethiopia), Jonathan Kariara (Kenya), Susan Kiguli (Uganda), Christopher Okigbo (Nigeria),Lenrie Peters (Gambia) and Dagnachew Werku (Ethiopia)
Key reading (7 items)
Spatial practices and imaginaries: Experiences of colonial officers and developmentprofessionals - Uma Kothari, 2006-11
Article | Essential
Formations of modernity - Hall, Stuart, Gieben, Bram, 1992Book | Essential | Please read Chapter 6: The West and the rest: discourse and power
by Hall, S (1992)
The postcolonial science and technology studies reader - Harding, Sandra G, 2011Book | Essential | Please read Chapter 1: Discovering the oriental west by Hobson, JM
(2011)
Postcolonial Approaches to Development. - Pat NoxoloChapter
Another Colonialism: Africa in the History of European Integration - Peo Hansen, StefanJonsson, 2014-09
Article
“Now let me share this with you”: Exploring Poetry as a Method for Postcolonial GeographyResearch - Gabriel Eshun, Clare Madge, 2012-09
Article | Essential
RAGHURAM P and MADGE C (2006) Towards a method for postcolonial developmentgeography: possibilities and challenges. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 27, 3,270-
Article
Disseminating Africa: Burdens of representation and the African Writers Series - C BarnettArticle | This item is not available via the University Library
Buzzwords and Fuzzwords: Deconstructing Development Discourse - Andrea Cornwall,2007
Article | Essential
The postcolonial science and technology studies reader - Harding, Sandra G., 2011Book | Essential | Ebook: Please read Chapter 14: Development and the anthropology of
modernity by Escobar A (2011)
The postcolonial science and technology studies reader - Harding, Sandra G, 2011Book | Please read Chapter 14: Development and the anthropology of modernity by
Escobar A (2011)
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Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life - J FergusonChapter
The postcolonial science and technology studies reader - Harding, Sandra G., 2011Book | Essential | Ebook: Please read Chapter 1: Discovering the oriental west by
Hobson, JM (2011)
Postcolonialism and development - McEwan, Cheryl, 2009Book | Essential | Please read Chapter 3: Postcolonial theory and development
One world, big society: a discursive analysis of the Conservative green paper forinternational development - P Noxolo, 2012-03
Article
Lecture 4 : History matters! (20 items)SynopsisThis lecture explores Africa in historical perspective, to highlight that the structures ofpower established by the colonizing process remain pervasive (although often hidden) inexplaining Africa’s social, economic and political position today. This arbitrary dominationof African peoples, economies and political systems by the colonising powers waslegitimised by a patronising and paternal racist attitude towards the ‘backward natives’ ofthe ‘dark continent’. However, it is also important to recognise the achievements ofAfrican civilisations before European contact and to acknowledge African resistance toEuropean empire building, occupation or particular economic or social policies. Africa isnot, as has sometimes been suggested, a continent ‘without history’. Moreover, Africa isnot simply a ‘recipient’ of history- but has played an active role in making the globalisedworld what it is today. That said, European intervention does mark an important stage inAfrica’s history: the beginning of underdevelopment for some nations and some people.There is a lot to fit into this lecture of 50 minutes so you will need to supplement thelecture with reading to supplement the general lecture notes with specific country casestudies.
Key reading (8 items)
Measuring African development: past and present. Introduction to the Special Issue -Morten Jerven, 2014-01-09
Article | See also other papers in Special Issue: Measuring African Development: Pastand Present
Empire, development and colonialism: the past in the present - Mark R. Duffield, VernonMarston Hewitt, 2009
Book
How Europe underdeveloped Africa - Rodney, Walter, 2012Book
Hidden histories made visible? Reflections on a geographical exhibition - Felix Driver,2013-07
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Article | Essential
Picturing empire: photography and the visualization of the British Empire - James R. Ryan,1997
Book
Geography militant: cultures of exploration and empire - Felix Driver, 2000Book
Missionary Travels: Livingstone, Africa and the Book Felix Driver 2013Journal
MADGE C RAGHURAM P AND NOXOLO P (2009) Engaged pedagogy and responsibility: Apostcolonial analysis of international students. Geoforum, 40, 1, 34-45.
Webpage
Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart: 1958-2008 - Whittaker, D., 2011Book | Background | Ebook
Visuality, Hybridity, and Colonialism: Imagining Ethiopia Through Colonial Aviation,1935–1940 - Federico Caprotti, 2011-03-16
Article
Theory from the south, or, How Euro-America is evolving toward Africa - Comaroff, Jean,Comaroff, John L., 2012
Book | Please read chapters 1 and 6
Perspectives on Africa: a reader in culture, history, and representation - Grinker, Roy R,Lubkemann, Stephen C., Steiner, Christopher Burghard, 2010
Book | Essential | See whole section with readings from Lugard (The Dual Mandate inBritish topical Africa), Rodney (How Europe underdeveloped Africa), Ranger (The inventionof tradition in colonial Africa) and Thiong’O (Detained: a prison writer’s diary). pp. 423-471.
At home with the empire: metropolitan culture and the imperial world - Hall, Catherine,Rose, Sonya O., 2006
Book | ebook
At home with the empire: metropolitan culture and the imperial world - Hall, Catherine,Rose, Sonya O., 2006
Book
Contesting colonial rule: Politics of exile in the Indian Ocean - Uma Kothari, 2012-6Article
‘Taken captive by the mystery of the Great River’: towards an historical geography ofBritish geography and Atlantic slavery - David Lambert, 2009-1
Article
Urban planning as a tool of power and social control in colonial Africa - Ambe J. Njoh,2009-07
Article
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A companion to postcolonial studies - Ray, Sangeeta, Schwarz, Henry, 2000Book | See Olaniyan, T (2000) Africa: Varied colonial legacies. pp. 269-281.
Sex, politics and empire: a postcolonial geography - Phillips, Richard, 2006Book
Perspectives on Africa: a reader in culture, history, and representation - Grinker, Roy R,Lubkemann, Stephen C., Steiner, Christopher Burghard, 2010
Book | see Van Allen J (2010) ‘Sitting on a man’: Colonialism and the lost politicalinstitutions of Igbo women’, Chapter 27.
Lecture 5 : ‘The dark continent’? (10 items)
Lecture synopsisIn this lecture we will consider in greater depth one specific stereotype of Africa: that ofthe ‘Dark Continent’. The lecture explores the historical roots of this enduring metaphor. Itdraws on Lucy Jarosz’s and Cheryl McEwan’s work to explore four themes: (i) Africanenvironment as dark, hostile, stupifying; (ii) Christianity as the bringer of salvation (’thelight’); (iii) opening up the dark continent to the ‘light’ of Western science and capitalism;(iv) gendered variations in the dark continent. A stringent counterpoint to therepresentation of Africa as a dark continent is provided by Chinua Achebe.
Key reading (7 items)
An Image of Africa - Chinua Achebe, 1978Article | Essential
Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent - PatrickBrantlinger, 1985
Article | Essential
Constructing the Dark Continent: Metaphor as Geographic Representation of Africa - LucyJarosz, 1992
Article | Essential
Irish Empire: assembling the geographical imagination of Irish missionaries in Africa - D.Linehan, 2014-07-01
Article
The morality of China in Africa: the Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent - StephenChan, c2013
Book
Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind - Curtis A. Keim, CarolynSomerville
Book | See chapter 1-4
The West African forest zone in the European geographical imagination - C Madge, RCLINE-COLE, 1996
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Perspectives on Africa: a reader in culture, history, and representation - Grinker, Roy R,Lubkemann, Stephen C., Steiner, Christopher Burghard, 2010
Book | Essential | see COMAROFF J AND COMAROFF J (2010) Africa observed: discoursesof the imperial imagination. chapter 1. See also pages 21-31.
Paradise or pandemonium ? West African landscapes in the travel accounts of Victorianwomen - Cheryl McEwan, 1996-1
Article
Journey out of darkness? Images of Africa in American travelogues at the turn of themillennium - Steven Fabian, 2013-02
Article
Lecture 6: Seminar 1 : (Postcolonial) development in practice: FatimahWobi and girl child education in Nigeria Fatimah Wobi, a Leicester University Geography alumni, is coming to speak to us abouther experiences of working on a DFID-funded evaluation of a UNICEF girl child educationproject in Nigeria.
In preparation, please find out as much as you can about Nigeria- history, politics,economic situation, cultural groups, social life, resent news events etc
You might want to look at the following, for example:
Africa debate has debates about African affairs see:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02hy6h6http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021d1l7
Another site to try is http://allafrica.com/ which archives stories from different newspapersfrom across the subcontinent. Another good source is www.pambazuka.org which is more academic/in-depth discussionbased African perspectives.
https://theconversation.com/africa An independent news and commentary site producedby academics and journalists.
Lecture 7 : Representing Africa in contemporary times (21 items)SynopsisIn the last lecture we explored the relationship between imperialism/colonialism and theconstruction of knowledge about Africa in the West. Africa was portrayed as Europe’s‘other’ through series of hierarchical dualisms. In the lecture today we will explore whethersuch representations continue to exist in representing Africa in contemporary Britaintoday. This is important because a postcolonial approach demands that we question the
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categories/assumptions of western thought, and link language and representation to action(in this case, development interventions). So by thinking critically about contemporaryrepresentations of Africa we can move towards a process of what Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o calls‘decolonising the mind’. We will explore this argument through a series of contemporaryrepresentations of Africa in the media, aid and tourist industries. We will also reflectcritically on very recent representations of ‘Africa rising’.
Key reading (7 items)
British media representations of South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup - DanielHammett, 2011-06
Article | Essential
Fu Manchu versus Dr Livingstone in the Dark Continent? Representing China, Africa andthe West in British broadsheet newspapers - Emma Mawdsley, 2008-6
Article | Essential
Decolonising the mind: the politics of language in African literature - Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo,1986
Book | Essential
Representation of China and the United States in Africa in Online Global News - ChrisPaterson, Toussaint Nothias, 2016-03
Article
Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind - Curtis A. Keim, CarolynSomerville
Book | See chapters 50-10
Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century : From the 'Heart of Darkness' to 'Africa Rising'Article
Images of Africa: creation, negotiation and subversion - V. Y. Mudimbe, 2015Book
Communication, Culture & CritiqueArticle | see special issue. some very interesting articles.
Development and the 'New' Imperialism: A Reinvention of Colonial Discourse in DFIDPromotional Literature - Review by: April R. Biccum, 2005
Article | Essential
Beyond imaginative geographies? Critique, co-optation, and imagination in the aftermathof the War on Terror - Angharad Closs Stephens, 2011
Article
Fear of a Black Planet: Anarchy Anxieties and Postcolonial Travel to Africa - Kevin C. Dunn,2004
Article
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Colonial Imaginaries and Postcolonial Transformations: exiles, bases, beaches - UmaKothari, Rorden Wilkinson, 2010-12
Article
‘With Love from Band Aid’: Sentimental exchange, affective economies, and popularglobalism - Cheryl Lousley, 2013-3
Article
Feel-good tourism: an ethical option for socially-conscious Westererners? - Gada Mahrouse, 2011
Article
The inscription of difference: news coverage of the conflicts in Rwanda and BosniaArticle
Postcolonial Imaginations: Approaching a "Fictionable" World through the Novels of MaryseCondé and Wilson Harris
Article
‘They Called Them Communists Then … What D'You Call ‘Em Now? … Insurgents?’.Narratives of British Military Expatriates in the Context of the New Imperialism - BenRogaly, Becky Taylor, 2010-09
Article
Imagining the dark continent: the Met, the media and the Thames torso - T Sanders, 2003Article | Essential | This is available in print in the David Wilson Library
A subaltern critical geopolitics of the war on terror: Postcolonial security in Tanzania -Joanne Sharp, 2011-6
Article
Racial Metaphors: Interpreting Sex and AIDS in Africa - Eileen Stillwaggon, 2003-11Article
Geographical Association - JournalsWebpage
Lecture 8: Moving beyond stereotypes (15 items)
SynopsisThis lecture seeks to move beyond stereotypical and racist images and perspectives ofAfrica. These have their roots in the colonial encounter but are drawn on in often verysubtle and transformed ways into the contemporary period to justify Africa’sbackwardness and the hopelessness of its peoples in a manner that has been termed‘reductive repetition’. ‘Reductive repetition’ reduces the diversity of historical experiencesand trajectories, socio-cultural contexts and political situations of Africa nations into ahomogenised set of ‘core deficits’ for which external solutions must be devised. Threeways in which we can move beyond these stereotypes and this reductive repetition areexplored in the lecture: firstly by exploring the diversity of the African continent whichbaulks against any homogenising view of Africa and Africans; secondly, by listening to
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African views of themselves; and thirdly by by careful attentiveness to attempt todecolonise our minds. These issues are explored in the lecture today through video clips,map work and literature.
Watch Africa United and think about how the film relates to/resists ‘the dangers of a singlestory’
Key reading (7 items)
Orientalism and African Development Studies: The 'Reductive Repetition' Motif in Theoriesof African Underdevelopment - Stefan Andreasson, 2005
Article | Essential
The dangers of the single story: Child-soldiers in literary fiction and film - C. Martins,2011-11-01
Article | Essential
Negotiating China: Reinserting African agency into China-Africa relations - G. Mohan, B.Lampert, 2013-01-01
Article
Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind - Curtis A. Keim, CarolynSomerville
Book | See chapters 11 and 12.
Africa: On the Rise, but to Where? - Franklin Obeng-Odoom, 2015-09-02Article
‘The Ethiopian famine’ revisited: Band Aid and the antipolitics of celebrity humanitarianaction - Tanja R. Müller, 2013-01
Article
MADGE C and ESHUN G (2016) Poetic world-writing in a pluriversal world: a provocation tothe creative (re)turn in geography. Social and Cultural Geography 17, 6, 778-
Journal
'From the Best Authorities': The Mountains of Kong in the Cartography of West Africa -Thomas J. Bassett and Philip W. Porter, 1991
Article
Postcolonialism and development - McEwan, Cheryl, 2009Book | Essential | See chapter 4.
Postcolonialism and development - McEwan, Cheryl, 2009Book | Essential | see chapter 4
Trilateral Development Cooperation: Power and Politics in Emerging Aid Relationships -Cheryl McEwan, Emma Mawdsley, 2012-11
Article
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The Elephant in the Corner? Reviewing India-Africa Relations in the New Millennium -Emma Mawdsley, Gerard McCann, 2010-02
Article
Introductory Human Geography Textbook Representations of Africa - Garth Andrew Myers,2001-11
Article | Essential
Taylor & Francis Online :: Livingstone and the legacy of Empire in the journalisticimagination - Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies - Volume 35, Issue 1
Webpage
Africa south of the Sahara: a geographical interpretation - Stock, Robert F., 2004Book | Chapters 1, 2, 3 mapping Africa, images of Africa and culture and society. And 4,
5, and 6 on geology, climate and biogeography. This should give you some basicbackground knowledge about Africa and its diverse geography.
Lecture 9: Seminar 2: Seminar 2: Mapping Africa: a postcolonialanalysis of contemporary representations of Africa Details of this seminar preparation can be found on blackboard, under coursedocuments, seminar 2.
Lecture 10: Subaltern knowledges: Whose knowledge counts? (20 items)SynopsisThis lecture explores the connections between power and knowledge and acts as atheoretical background to the third section of the module. Using a postcolonial frame, itasks the question: ‘Whose knowledge counts?’. This question is explored through severalscenarios: first, through recreating the story between myself and Bintu Kujabby, a ruralGambian farmer, and the knowledge transfer between us; secondly, through anengagement with postcolonial theory; and finally, through the links between indigenoustechnical knowledge and Western development institutions. The lecture finishes byexploring how possible it is to engage with languages of collaboration which can overcomethe unequal global power relations that underlie Western and African knowledge systems.
Key reading (11 items)
Marxism and the interpretation of culture - Nelson, Cary, Grossberg, Lawrence, 1988Book | Essential | see Spivak, G (1988) ‘Can the subaltern speak?’pp 271-313.
Critical Analysis of the Production of Western Knowledge and Its Implications forIndigenous Knowledge and Decolonization - Francis Adyanga Akena, 2012-09
Article
Subaltern geographies: Geographical knowledge and postcolonial strategy - Tariq Jazeel,2014-03
Article
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From heterogeneous worlds: western privilege, class and positionality in the South - MarkGriffiths, 2016-05
Article
The postcolonial science and technology studies reader - Harding, Sandra G., 2011Book | Essential | See Brockway L (2011) Science and colonial expansion: the role of the
British Royal Botanic gardens. Chapter 6. Brush SB (2011) Whose knowledge, whosegenes, whose rights? Chapter 12. Harding S (2011) Other cultures’ sciences. p.151-158.
Places of pharmaceutical knowledge-making: Global health, postcolonial science, and hopein South African drug discovery - A. Pollock, 2014-08-24
Article
Contesting Imperial Epistemologies: Introduction - Gurminder K Bhambra, Robbie Shilliam,Daniel Orrells, 2014-09
Article | See other issues in special issue Contesting Imperial Epistemologies
Mahmood Mamdani (2016) Between the public intellectual and the scholar: decolonizationand some post-independence initiatives in African higher education, Inter-Asia CulturalStudies, 17:1, 68-83,
Journal
Raewyn Connell (2017) Southern theory and world universities, Higher Education Research& Development, 36:1, 4-15
Journal
Stephanie L. Daza & Eve Tuck (2014) De/colonizing, (Post)(Anti)Colonial, and IndigenousEducation, Studies, and Theories, Educational Studies, 50:4, 307-312,
Journal
MADGE C (1993) Boundary disputes: comments on Sidaway (1992). Area, 25, 3, 294-299.Article
Imagining ‘Atlanta’: The Cultural Politics and Poetics of Experimental Medicine in EastAfrica | Elliott | Cultural Studies Review
Webpage
Global governance and the politics of culture: campaigns against female circumcision inEast Africa - Jonneke Koomen, 2014-02-07
Article
Negotiating gender, power, and spaces in masquerade performances in Nigeria - JohnThabiti Willis, 2014-03-16
Article
Taylor & Francis Online :: Africa in the Canadian media: The Globe and Mail'scoverage of Africa from 2003 to 2012 - Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies - Volume35, Issue 1
Webpage
Taylor & Francis Online :: Echoes of colonial discourse in journalism - Ecquid Novi: African
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Journalism Studies - Volume 35, Issue 1Webpage
Perspectives on Africa: a reader in culture, history, and representation - Grinker, Roy R,Lubkemann, Stephen C., Steiner, Christopher Burghard, 2010
Book | See Section on Witchcraft, science and rationality: the translation of culture. pp.237-283. See chapters by Livingstone, Evans-Pritchard, Winch and Austen.
The postcolonial politics of development - Kapoor, Ilan, 2008Book | Essential | Ebook.
See chapters 3, 4, 5 (Hyper-Self-Reflexive Development? Spivak on Representing the ThirdWorld 'Other'; Participatory development, complicity and desire; Foreign aid as g(r)ift)
“We Pray at the Church in the Day and Visit the at Night”: Health Discourses and Traditional Medicine in Rural South Africa - BrianKing, 2012-09
Article
Postcolonialism and development - McEwan, Cheryl, 2009Book | Essential | See chapter 5.
Lecture 11: Indigenous technical knowledge and agricultural practices (18 items)SynopsisLast session we considered the knowledge/power nexus generally and in theoretical terms.In this lecture I want to ‘ground’ this discussion with specific case study examples. Todaythe lecture will focus on the ITK underlying ecological management practices in farmingand collecting in specific West African communities. The focus will be on intercroppingpractices in Sierra Leone and agroforestry knowledge in The Gambia. The lectureconcludes by considering how and why the development profession suffers from anentrenched superiority complex with respect to the African farmer and how thesepower/knowledge relations can be challenged.
Key reading (11 items)
The Resilience of Indigenous Knowledge in Small-scale African Agriculture: Key Drivers -John Briggs, Boyson Moyo, 2012-03
Article | Essential
Meteorologists Meeting Rainmakers: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Policy Processesin Kenya - Paul Guthiga, Andrew Newsham, 2011-05
Article | Essential
Social Sustainability in Agriculture: An Anthropological Perspective on Child Labour inCocoa Production in Ghana - Amanda Berlan, 2013-08
Article
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Land education: Indigenous, post-colonial, and decolonizing perspectives on place andenvironmental education research - Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie, Kate McCoy, 2014-01-02
Article
Indilinga African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge SystemsArticle
African Indigenous Knowledge and the Disciplines - Gloria Emeagwali, George J Sefa DeiBook
Labour-burdened women utilising their marginalised indigenous knowledge in foodproduction processes: The case of Khambashe rural households, Eastern Cape, SouthAfrica
Journal
The Use of Social Media Technologies to Create, Preserve, and Disseminate IndigenousKnowledge and Skills to Communities in East Africa - Sylvia A. Owiny, 2014
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MADGE C (1994b) Collected food and domestic knowledge in The Gambia, West Africa.Geographical Journal, 160, 3, 280-294.
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MADGE C (1995b) The adaptive performance of West African life: continuity and change ofcollecting activities in The Gambia. Geografiska Annaler B, 77B, 2, 109-124.
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MADGE C (1999) Therapeutic landscapes: health care among the Jola of The Gambia.Health and Place: an International Journal of Health Care, 4, 4, 293-311.
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The ‘Girl Effect’ and martial arts: social entrepreneurship and sport, gender anddevelopment in Uganda - Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst, 2014-03-16
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Sustainability Science Education in Africa: Negotiating indigenous ways of living withnature in the third space - George E. Glasson, Ndalapa Mhango, Absalom Phiri, MarilynLanier, 2010-01
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Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America - Gordon, DavidM., Krech, Shepard, c2012
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The postcolonial science and technology studies reader - Harding, Sandra G., 2011Book | Essential | See HOPPERS CAO (2011) Towards the integration of knowledge
systems: challenges to thought and practice. Chapter 22.
In between worlds: place, experience, and research in Indigenous geography - Soren C.Larsen, Jay T. Johnson, 2012-02
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Encountering Indigeneity: Re-Imagining and Decolonizing Geography - Wendy S. Shaw, R.D. K. Herman and G. Rebecca Dobbs, 2006
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Embodied experiences of environmental and climatic changes in landscapes of everydaylife in Ghana - Petra Tschakert, Raymond Tutu, Anna Alcaro, 2013-5
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Lecture 12: Seminar 3: Decolonizing knowledge in the academy:Learning from South African students? (1 items)Details of this seminar preparation can be found on blackboard, under course documents,seminar 1.
Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive Achille MbembeDocument
Lecture 13: Coping strategies or copping out? (17 items)
SynopsisThis lecture will explore indigenous coping strategies. It will explain how and why ruralpeople adapt their livelihood strategies to cope to food insecurity on both a seasonal and amore long term basis. The lecture aims to refute the idea of a hopeless and helpless‘disaster’ victim by showing the complexity and rationality of knowledges and practicesused to overcome harsh circumstances by rural people. Such coping strategies will beexplored through a case study of Ayirebi village in Ghana. Overall, we need to considerwhy these strategies are needed, thus understanding food shortage in Africa its historicaland political context. In conclusion, the concept of coping strategies needs criticalappraisal to consider whether it is capable of explaining reality on the ground or has itmerely become a convenient escape route for academics and policy-makers to avoidaddressing the more deep seated economic and political causes of food insecurity. This isparticularly urgent given recent cases of ‘land grab’ by US, Chinese, Indian and Europeancompanies in some parts of Africa.
Choose one country currently suffering from food insecurity and find out as much as youcan about the causes, consequences and coping strategies utilized by different groups ofpeople in that country. See if you can find out about any land grab issues. Use this casestudy to assess whether you consider coping strategies are a ‘cop out’?
Key reading (6 items)
Taylor & Francis Online :: The Journal of Peasant Studies - Volume 39, Issue 1Journal | Essential | See Special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies 39,1, 2012 on
land grabs. See Amanor, White et al, Woodhouse, Lavers, Hall, Smalley for African casestudies
Urban agriculture, social capital, and food security in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya -Courtney M. Gallaher, John M. Kerr, Mary Njenga, Nancy K. Karanja, Antoinette M. G. A.WinklerPrins, 2013-1-23
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An African-centred approach to land education - Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Karanja KeitaCarroll, 2014-01-02
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Agricultural development and food security in Africa: the impact of Chinese, Indian andBrazilian investments - Fantu Cheru, Renu Modi, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2013
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Rachel J. Berman, Claire H. Quinn & Jouni Paavola (2015) Identifying drivers of householdcoping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications foradapting to future climate change, Climate and Development, 7:1, 71-84,
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Landscape diversity and associated coping strategies during food shortage periods:evidence from the Sudano-Sahelian region of Burkina Faso
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Land, mobility, and belonging in West Africa - Carola Lentz, 2013Book
Responding to Crop Failure: Understanding Farmers’ Coping Strategies in Southern Malawi- Jeanne Coulibaly, Glwadys Gbetibouo, Godfrey Kundhlande, Gudeta Sileshi, Tracy Beedy,2015-02-03
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Adapting agriculture to climate change in Kenya: Household strategies and determinants -Elizabeth Bryan, Claudia Ringler, Barrack Okoba, Carla Roncoli, Silvia Silvestri, MarioHerrero, 2013-1
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Deal or no deal: the outlook for agricultural land investment in Africa - LORENZO COTULA,SONJA VERMEULEN, 2009-11
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The postcolonial science and technology studies reader - Harding, Sandra G., 2011Book | See Hartmann, B (2011) Security and survival: why do poor people have many
children? Chapter 16.
African Land, Up for Grabs - A. Parulkar, 2011-03-01Article | Essential
Global land acquisition: neo-colonialism or development opportunity? - Beth Robertson, PerPinstrup-Andersen, 2010-9
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Coping Strategies in Livestock-dependent Households in East and Southern Africa: ASynthesis of Four Case Studies - Philip K. Thornton, Randall B. Boone, Kathleen A. Galvin,Shauna B. BurnSilver, Michael M. Waithaka, Joan Kuyiah, Stanley Karanja, ErnestoGonzález-Estrada and Mario Herrero, 2007
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Article | Essential
Perspectives on Africa: a reader in culture, history, and representation - Grinker, Roy R,Lubkemann, Stephen C., Steiner, Christopher Burghard, 2010
Book | See Uvin, P (2010) Development aid and structural violence: the case of Rwanda.chapter 42.
Globalisation and the foreignisation of space: seven processes driving the current globalland grab - Annelies Zoomers, 2010-04
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Exploring forest-related coping strategies for alleviating the HIV/AIDS burden on ruralMalawian households - J.A. Timko, 2013-06-01
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Lecture 14 : ICTs and African ‘development’ (21 items)
SynopsisIn this lecture we explore another aspect of knowledge and power: that of ICTs and therole they play in African ‘development’. After examining some of the potentials and pitfallsof ICT in Africa, we will unpick international development community discourses on ICT inAfrica and identify two key themes: Africa as ‘backward’ and Africa coming into the ‘light’of knowledge through ICTs. These more general discussions are grounded in a case studyof modernizing Tanzania through the Internet (Mercer, 2006), which shows thatTanzanians’ use of the Internet contrasts sharply with the hegemonic discourse on Internettechnologies and development currently circulating within the international developmentcommunity. Indeed, this case study starts to question the role of ICT in bringing‘development’ to Africa, a theme pushed to its limits when considering how militarisedmining associated with the minerals used in mobile phones have instigated andperpetuated under-development in the DRC. A counter point view of Africa as a ‘trace ofthings to happen’ is presented through a case study of Konza city in Kenya
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Problematic Empowerment: West African Internet Scams as Strategic Misrepresentation. -Burrell, Jenna, 2008
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Mobile Phones, Livelihoods and the Poor in Sub-Saharan Africa: Review and Prospect - GinaPorter, 2012-05
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'Travelling while sitting down': Mobile phones, mobility and the communication landscapein Inhambane, Mozambique
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Live from the pastures: Maasai YouTube protest videos - Allison Hailey Hahn, 2016-11Article
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Moving the centre to design social media in rural Africa - Nicola J. Bidwell, 2016-2Article
Imagined Facebook: An exploratory study of non-users’ perceptions of social media inRural Zambia - Susan Wyche, Eric PS Baumer, 2017-07
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Social media and protest mobilization: evidence from the Tunisian revolution - AnitaBreuer, Todd Landman, Dorothea Farquhar, 2015-06-07
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Imagined Facebook: An exploratory study of non-users perceptions of social media in RuralZambia - S. Wyche, E. P. Baumer, 2016-01-29
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Evaluating Shared Access: social equality and the circulation of mobile phones in ruralUganda - Jenna Burrell, 2010-01
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The Informationalization of Poverty in Africa? Mobile Phones and Economic Structure. -Carmody, Pádraig, 2012
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Divided We Call: Disparities in Access and Use of Mobile Phones in Rwanda. - Blumenstock,Joshua Evan
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Postdevelopment Television? Cultural Citizenship and the Mediation of Africa inContemporary TV Drama - Julie Cupples, Kevin Glynn, 2013-07
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ICTs, ‘virtual colonisation’ & political economy - Reginald Cline-cole, Mike Powell, 2004-03Article | Essential
The domestication of the mobile phone: oral society and new ICT in Burkina Faso - HansPeter Hahn, Ludovic Kibora, 2008-3
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YouTube and Social Movements: A Phenomenological Analysis of Participation, Events andCyberplace - David Meek, 2012-09
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Telecentres and transformations: Modernizing Tanzania through the internet - C. Mercer,2005-10-14
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Breaking up 'because of the phone' and the transformative potential of information inSouthern Mozambique - J. Soleil Archambault, 2011-05-01
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The cell phone as appropriate information technology: evidence from The Gambia - J.
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Harvey, P. Sturges, 2010-05-01Article
Playing politics with the mobile phone in Nigeria: civil society, big business & the state -Ebenezer Obadare, 2006-03
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Perspectives on Africa: a reader in culture, history, and representation - Grinker, Roy R,Lubkemann, Stephen C., Steiner, Christopher Burghard, 2010
Book | see SMITH DJ (2010) Nigerian email scams as political critiques: globalisation,inequality and 419. chapter 43.
Bare Life as a Development/Postcolonial Problematic - Christine Sylvester, 2006Article
Indilinga African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge SystemsArticle | This journal has numerous examples of African indigenous knowledge systems
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