’ of the ontologically and socially inferior slave (28). A century later, Frantz Fanon retained Hegel’s argument that mutual recognition among equals is necessary to ‘being-for-self’. Unlike Hegel, however, Fanon further observed that this possibility
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Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Elaine Coburn
Wiping away the Tears of the Ocean
Ukusulaizinyembezizolwandle
Mogobe Ramose
attains the qualification pan-Africanist. According to this reasoning, a pan-Africanist need not be the bearer of ‘Africanness’. Our critique of this criterion is that it is weak in its obliviousness of ontology but strong in its recognition and
Contested Memory
Retrieving the Africanist (Liberatory) Conception of Non-racialism
Ndumiso Dladla
differentiation of human beings in quality at the level of biology, meant ignorance of the significance of the socio-ontological mechanics of race. The liberal conception of non-racialism also in this narrow sense was founded upon completely unchecked ethnocentric
Let’s Talk about Rick Turner
Peter Hudson
place much more emphasis on the category of scarcity if he was going to be able to negotiate the passage from the ontological – his Sartrean subject – to the ontic of apartheid. I was feeling my way towards a position I was not yet able to articulate
Whites Cannot Be Black
A Bikoist Challenge to Professor Xolela Mangcu
Keolebogile Mbebe
experience, and lived experience in turn was the evidence for race. Race was, thus, an ontological category. More (2017: 51) classifies the concept of blackness as it is expressed by Biko and SASO into three: ‘(i) the real black person, (ii) the black
No Demos in the Pandemic
Asma Abbas
fashionable path-dependencies that are said to have far surpassed the old colonial question—have emerged from colonial and supremacist epistemic, ontological, psychic, and institutional imperatives. What binds us are not impotent global institutions that were
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 166–171 (6 total)
Decolonising Borders
Re-imagining Strangeness and Spaces
John Sodiq Sanni
domination as a gradual move away from ‘divide and rule’ towards ‘define and rule’. Interpreting Mamdani's view, one finds that colonial presuppositions were instrumental in imposing a debased ontological perception of Africans. The move for independence is
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Some Senses of Pan-Africanism from the South
Christopher Allsobrook
cultural brothers and sisters. Pan-African unity may be threatened by divisions imposed by European colonialism but Afrocentric education can overcome this problem. To this effect, Mogobe Ramose develops in the subsequent contribution an ontological
COVID-19, Democracies, and (De)Colonialities
Marcos S. Scauso, Garrett FitzGerald, Arlene B. Tickner, Navnita Chadha Behera, Chengxin Pan, Chih-yu Shih, and Kosuke Shimizu
decolonization, must grapple with the enduring effects of epistemic and ontological erasure on ancestral economic, social, cultural, and political practices. For many indigenous communities, the current crisis must be understood as the continuation of centuries
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Article Commentary
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- 82–93 (12 total)
Pan-Africanism and Epistemologies of the South
Pascah Mungwini
epistemologies whose categories of analysis and ontological conceptions of being and living derive from ‘the densities of the colonial experience that do not seek to overthrow existing ones but that build on the ground of the silence of history’ ( Mignolo 2002