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oapen-20.500.12657-469082021-02-23T13:18:53Z Decolonising the Human Steyn, Melissa Mpofu, William Adejare, Gbenga S. Akanle, Olayinka Burnett, Cary Fasuyi, Jojola Hlabangane, Nokuthula Maseko, Robert Ndlovu, Morgan Ndlovu, Pinky Patricia Ndlovu, Sibonokuhle Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara, Charmika Sibanda, Brian Sithole, Tendayi Zondi, Siphamandla Steyn, Melissa Mpofu, William Decolonisation, race theory, indigenous knowledge systems, Ali Mazrui, Achille Mbembe, Walter Mignolo, Mahmood Mamdani, the human condition, human difference, dehumanisation bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes "Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting ‘the human’ in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions. The ‘human’ emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle, and the degradation, marginalisation and immiseration of those excluded as the different and inferior Other, the less than human. Speaking from Africa, a key site where the category of the human has been used throughout European modernity to control, exclude and deny equality of being, the contributors use decoloniality as a potent theoretical and philosophical tool, gesturing towards a liberated, pluriversal world where human difference will be recognised as a gift, not used to police the boundaries of the human. Here is a transdisciplinary critical exploration of a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and decolonial studies. " 2021-02-22T11:01:29Z 2021-02-22T11:01:29Z 2021 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46908 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781776146789_WEB.pdf Wits University Press 10.18772/22021036512 10.18772/22021036512 c522c2dd-daf5-4926-bf1a-ee1557d24a4b 264 Johannesburg open access
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"Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting ‘the human’ in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions. The ‘human’ emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle, and the degradation, marginalisation and immiseration of those excluded as the different and inferior Other, the less than human.
Speaking from Africa, a key site where the category of the human has been used throughout European modernity to control, exclude and deny equality of being, the contributors use decoloniality as a potent theoretical and philosophical tool, gesturing towards a liberated, pluriversal world where human difference will be recognised as a gift, not used to police the boundaries of the human. Here is a transdisciplinary critical exploration of a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and decolonial studies.
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