Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon
Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of Technocolonialism
Recentring African Indigenous Knowledge and Belief Systems
Positing the notions of coloniality of ignorance and geopolitics
of ignorance as central to coloniality and colonisation, this book
examines how colonialists socially produced ignorance among colonised
indigenous peoples so as to render them docile and manageable.
Dismissing colonial descriptions of indigenous people as savages,
illiterate, irrational, prelogical, mystical, primitive, barbaric and
backward, the book argues that imperialists/colonialists contrived
geopolitics of ignorance wherein indigenous regions were forced to
become ignorant, hence containable and manageable in the imperial world.
Questioning the provenance of modernist epistemologies, the book asks
why Eurocentric scholars only contest the provenance of indigenous
knowledges, artefacts and scientific collections. Interrogating why
empire sponsors the decolonisation of universities/epistemologies in
indigenous territories while resisting the repatriation/restitution of
indigenous artefacts, the book also wonders why Westerners who still
retain indigenous artefacts, skulls and skeletons in their museums,
universities and private collections do not consider such artefacts and
skulls to be colonising them as well. The book is valuable to scholars
and activists in the fields of anthropology, museums and heritage
studies, science and technology studies, decoloniality, policymaking,
education, politics, sociology and development studies.
£44.00
About the editors
Artwell
Nhemachena holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of
Cape Town. He has lectured at a number of universities in Zimbabwe.
Currently he lectures in Sociology at the University of Namibia. He has published journal papers, book chapters and books on violence and conflict, relational ontologies and resilience, environment, development, democracy, research methods, humanitarianism and civil society organisations, anthropological jurisprudence, mining, society and politics, religion, industrial sociology, decoloniality and social theory. He is a laureate and active member of CODESRIA since
2010.
Nokuthula Hlabangane holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She teaches at the
University of South Africa, Pretoria.
Joseph Z. Z. Matowanyika is a Professor at the Chinhoyi University of
Technology where he is the Director of the Institute of Lifelong
Learning and Development Studies. He holds a PhD in Geography from the
University of Waterloo, Canada.
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