Title
Changing the Frame: New Epistemic Frameworks and Social Transformation in African Feminist Theory
Author
Anke Graness
University of Hildesheim
Author
Martina Kopf
Abstract
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.
Object type
Language
English [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2086317
Appeared in
Title
The Monist
Volume
107
Issue
3
ISSN
0026-9662
Issued
2024
From page
279
To page
293
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date issued
2024
Access rights
Rights statement
© The Author(s), 2024

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