Project

The Power of Movement: Saharan perspectives on politics

Northwest Africa has recently been the site of a large variety of political movements.

Judith Scheele Judith Scheele

Publication

Confronting racism‐evasive ignorance in standard pedagogy of hegemonic social psychology

Adams, Glenn and Syed Muhammad Omar. 2024. Confronting racism‐evasive ignorance in standard pedagogy of hegemonic social psychology. Journal...

Glenn Adams Glenn Adams

Publication

African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon

Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN...

Aretha Phiri Aretha Phiri

Project

Animist Humanism: Decolonizing Philosophy of Religion In And Through African Cosmo-Sense

Increasingly, philosophy of religion is charged with failing to admit its Eurocentric character.

Patrice Haynes Patrice Haynes

Project

Black Archives and Intellectual Histories

Black Archives and Intellectual Histories brings together a range of scholars from South Africa, the continent at large and the black diaspora whose work has transformed our thinking about black intellectual histories and archives.

Khwezi Mkhize Khwezi Mkhize Christopher Ouma Christopher Ouma Mandisa Haarhoff Mandisa Haarhoff

Project

The Morality of Martiality: Beyond Good and Evil in Liberation Struggles

This is an interdisciplinary research project on the morality of martiality.

Beata Stawarska Beata Stawarska

Publication

African Philosophy and Global Justice: Critical Essays

Okeja, Uchenna. 2018. African Philosophy and Global Justice: Critical Essays (1st ed.). London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/African...

Uchenna Okeja Uchenna Okeja

Publication

Navigating epistemic disarticulations

Musila, Grace A. 2017. Navigating epistemic disarticulations. African Affairs, 116(465), 692–704. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adx031

Grace Musila Grace Musila

Publication

On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

Mignolo, Walter D. and Catherine E. Walsh. 2018. On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupres...

Walter Mignolo Walter Mignolo Catherine Walsh Catherine Walsh

Project

Decolonizing Africa: A Feminist Perspective

The main aim of this project is to develop a resource that moves legal education away from the conventional teaching which focuses on the black letter of the law and perpetuates a colonial, hierarchical, and decontextualized understanding.

Sylvia Tamale Sylvia Tamale

Project

Decolonial thoughts

Work at STIAS will be the final draft of four lectures which were delivered in 2013 at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) in Johannesburg under the general topic of Decolonial Thoughts.

Walter Mignolo Walter Mignolo

Project

Closing the Narrative Loop: Indian and South African Constitutionalism in the Age of Reflexive Globalisation

It is planned to use the time at STIAS to find out whether something like an African type of constitutionalism is developing or whether constitutionalism in Africa develops more or less along the lines of Western constitutionalism.

Theunis Roux Theunis Roux