Project

Civil Aviation in East Africa 1946-1986 - Outline of a History

With this project I aim to outline the unwritten history of civil aviation in East Africa.

Baz Lecocq Baz Lecocq

Publication

Ernest Gellner’s Legacy and Social Theory Today

Skalník, Petr. (Ed.). 2022. Ernest Gellner’s Legacy and Social Theory Today. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-...

Petr Skalník Petr Skalník

Publication

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World

Deirdre N. McCloskey. 2011. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World. University Of Chicago Press. 592 pp. ISBN-10: 0...

Publication

‘All That Is Solid’… Maelstrom and Modernity in Zygmunt Bauman, Marshall Berman (and the Ones in between: Marx, Trotsky, Faust and Spengler)

Beilharz, Peter. 2016. ‘All That Is Solid’… Maelstrom and Modernity in Zygmunt Bauman, Marshall Berman (and the Ones in between: Marx, Trots...

Peter Beilharz Peter Beilharz

Publication

Subjects of Modernity

Dube, Saurabh. 2017. Subjects of Modernity. Time-space, disciplines, margins. (1st ed.). Stellenbosch: African Sun Media. https://doi.org/10...

Placeholder image Saurabh Dube

Publication

STIAS Series Volume 10: Subjects of Modernity: Time-space, disciplines, margins

Subjects of Modernity: Time-space, disciplines, margins Saurabh Dube AFRICAN SUN MeDIA (2017, 190 pp) ISBN: 978-1-920689-99-5 https://doi.o...

Placeholder image Saurabh Dube

Project

DECOLONIALITY AFTER DECOLONIZATION: The question of knowledge and higher education in Southern Africa and the Global South

The Knowledge Society is a common expression nowadays in the Global North and the Global West, were knowledge means technological knowledge and training geared towards economic growth, development and modernization.

Walter Mignolo Walter Mignolo Catherine Walsh Catherine Walsh Roberto Dainotto Roberto Dainotto Leo Ching Leo Ching

Project

The Power of Injury: Memory, Decolonization, and the Challenges of Modernity in Africa

This book examines the political and social effects of Africa’s prioritization of the experience of colonization in its response to the world, and analyzes the role of Nelson Mandela’s notion of forgiveness in Africa’s inevitable path to modernity.

Chielozona Eze Chielozona Eze

Project

PostAfricanism vs Fanonism

Although the current global age in its most crucial structural orientations, has turned viscerally anti-Fanonian, Fanon remains, especially among the intellectual left, a key intellectual and moral authority still sponsoring the seeming perpetuation of the anti-colonial/decolonial outlook not just in Africa but in the rest of the Third World.

Denis Ekpo Denis Ekpo

Project

Christianity, modernity and the politics of homosexuality in Africa

This project examines the complexity and multiplicity of Christian contributions to politics of homosexuality and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights in Africa.

Adriaan van Klinken Adriaan van Klinken