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  • Epistemologies of African conflicts[electronic resource] :violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone /
  • 纪录类型: 书目-语言数据,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414] null: 907.209664
    [NT 47271] Title/Author: Epistemologies of African conflicts : violence, evolutionism, and the war in Sierra Leone // Zubairu Wai.
    作者: Wai, Zubairu,
    [NT 51406] other author: Wai, Zubairu,
    出版者: New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面页册数: 1 online resource.
    附注: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--York University, Toronto, 2010, originally presented under the title: Interpretations of African conflicts : power, knowledge and the discourse of violence on the Sierra Leone civil wars.
    标题: Civil war - Historiography. - Africa
    标题: Violence - Historiography. - Africa
    标题: Research - Political aspects - Africa.
    标题: Africanists - Attitudes
    标题: Eurocentrism.
    标题: HISTORY / Historiography
    标题: Sierra Leone - History - Civil War, 1991-2002
    标题: Africa - Languages.
    ISBN: 9781137280800 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137280808 (electronic bk.)
    [NT 15000227] null: Includes bibliographical references.
    [NT 15000228] null: Sierra Leone, Conflict and the Will to Truth -- Evolutionism and the Africanist Project -- The Idea of Sierra Leone -- Sierra Leone: A Decade of War -- The Conflict of Interpretations -- Sierra Leone Inflections and Amplifications -- Coda: Africanism, Conflicts and the Will to Truth.
    [NT 15000229] null: This book offers a bold, ground-breaking epistemological critique of the dominant discourses on contemporary African conflicts. Based on a detailed and painstaking examination of the dominant ways in which the Sierra Leone civil war has been interpreted, theorized, and understood, author Zubairu Wai considers how Africa is constructed as a site of knowledge and the power political implications that this construction has for the continent and its people. Wai situates the current discourses on contemporary African conflicts within the centuries-long Eurocentric conceptions of Africa conceived of and conveyed through various systems of knowledge, socio-historical and political processes, and practices of representation. He also investigates the historical linkages between Africanism and a Western will to power that since the fifteenth century has also perfectly espoused and necessitated an Africanist will to truth. Identifying evolutionism as a major condition of Africanist knowledge linked to systems of power, this book ultimately argues that the scripts of these conflicts are always already written long before the first shots are fired. Thus, the predicament of Africanist discourses emanates not only from the conceptual limitations of the "colonial library" and evolutionist epistemology, but also these discourses' devotion to the power and knowledge regimes of the Western will to power that makes them possible.
    电子资源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137280800
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