Overview
- Explores and discusses emerging perspectives on Ubuntu from the vantage point of ordinary people
- Connects Ubuntu to human rights and decolonizing discourses
- Shows that Ubuntu is embedded in the Nguni aphorism “umntu ngumntu ngabantu,” andwas brought to public light through the writings/speeches of iconic political figures
Part of the book series: Human Rights Interventions (HURIIN)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores and discusses emerging perspectives of Ubuntu from the vantage point of “ordinary” people and connects it to human rights and decolonizing discourses. It engages a decolonizing perspective in writing about Ubuntu as an indigenous concept. The fore grounding argument is that one’s positionality speaks to particular interests that may continue to sustain oppressions instead of confronting and dismantling them. Therefore, a decolonial approach to writing indigenous experiences begins with transparency about the researcher’s own positionality. The emerging perspectives of this volume are contextual, highlighting the need for a critical reading for emerging, transformative and alternative visions in human relations and social structures.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Otrude Nontobeko Moyo is a Social Work Professor & Program Director at Indiana University – South Bend, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Africanity and Ubuntu as Decolonizing Discourse
Authors: Otrude Nontobeko Moyo
Series Title: Human Rights Interventions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59785-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59784-9Published: 08 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59787-0Published: 08 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59785-6Published: 07 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-5117
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 226
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Politics, Human Rights, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Knowledge - Discourse