Southern Theories

Contemporary and Future Challenges
Herausgeber: Mutanga, Oliver; Marovah, Tendayi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book critically explores Global South perspectives, spotlighting marginalised voices and issues whilst challenging the supremacy of Global North perspectives in literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781032415970
• ISBN-10: 1032415975
• Artikelnr.: 69030744

Autorenporträt

Oliver Mutanga is a disability scholar with a PhD in development studies from the University of the Free State in South Africa. He is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, and a research associate at the University of South Africa's College of Education. Oliver has been honoured with prestigious awards such as the Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oslo, Norway and the Global Challenges Research Fellowship at University College London's Institute of Education. Tendayi Marovah is a research fellow at the Open Distance Learning Research Unit, College of Education, University of South Africa (UNISA). He is also a lecturer at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. His research interests include curriculum and pedagogy, higher education, social justice, human development, and theorising using the capability approach and Ubuntu philosophy. Tendayi holds a PhD in Africa studies (history) from the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Tendayi's current practice is grounded in transformative pedagogies informed by Ubuntu philosophy, which aims to develop the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes needed to create a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Embracing Southern Theories for an Inclusive Future; 2. Chinese
philosophy's contributions to the Homoverse; 3. Qi Vitality and Virtue
Cultivation: Embodying and Educating for Eco-Cosmic Citizenry; 4.
De-Westernising Communication Thought from a Global South Perspective: The
Contributions of Indigenous Approaches from Latin America; 5. The Role of
indigenous religion in building community resilience: The Case of the
Karen, an ethnic minority group in the Myanmar-Thailand border region; 6.
Disability, Inclusion, and Gross National Happiness: The Complex Case of
Bhutan; 7. Philosophical and practical challenges of Ubuntu: Application to
decolonial activism and conceptions of personhood and disability; 8.
Decolonising gender and development: The influence of Ubuntu philosophy on
the articulation of African feminism; 9. Neozapatista decolonial pedagogy:
an approach to the disruptive conceptualisation of the learner; 10.
Southern Theories: Implications for Epistemic Debates and Sustainable
Development