Changing the Frame

Autor(en)

Anke Graneß, Martina Kopf

Abstrakt

This article discusses African feminist approaches to decolonization and social transformation. In recent years, there has been a significant shift in African feminist scholarship towards African concerns and Africa-centered solutions. Today’s turn to Indigenous knowledge, social structures, and gender relations is no longer just about shedding light on the precolonial past, but about fundamentally changing the epistemic framework in the sense of developing alternative epistemologies beyond the dominant ‘Western’ framework. But what is meant by ‘alternative epistemologies’? How do African feminist thinkers conceptualize social change today? And how do they relate epistemic and social change in their thinking? These questions are explored in this article, focusing on work by Sylvia Tamale (Uganda), Wangari Maathai (Kenya), and Anthonia Kalu (Nigeria) and drawing on the discourse of ecofeminism and Ubuntu as two models of alternative epistemologies.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, Institut für Internationale Entwicklung

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Hildesheim

Journal

The Monist

Band

107

Seiten

279 - 293

Anzahl der Seiten

15

ISSN

0026-9662

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onae014

Publikationsdatum

07-2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603126 Interkulturelle Philosophie, 602001 Afrikanistik, 504014 Gender Studies

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Philosophy, Allgemeine Kunst und Geisteswissenschaften, Literature and Literary Theory

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen, SDG 5 – Geschlechtergleichheit, SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/98804de2-9dcb-46a1-8b98-010d5b23cd14