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Changing Epistemologies: Feminist African Philosophy of Knowledge

Angela Akorsu

Hinweise für Studierende

Die Sitzung am 14. April 2025 wird nicht stattfinden und im Semester nach Absprache mit den Studierenden zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt nachgeholt. (The session on April 14, 2025 will not take place and will be held at a later date in the semester after consultation with the students.) Schließen

Kommentar

This course examines epistemology and the assumptions that have guided knowledge production. This allows for evaluating mainstream knowledge claims and their implications for intersecting populations such as Africans and females. It challenges traditional knowledge systems, explores intersectionality, and engages with the decolonization of knowledge discourse. It further examines African philosophical thought and feminist perspectives as potential contributions to traditional knowledge systems, and as important drivers of the evolving landscape of contemporary epistemology. The course will engage concepts such as epistemic injustice, decolonization of knowledge, as well as intersectionality - how gender, culture and power intersect to shape the production and validation of knowledge. Topics to be treated include: Critique of epistemology and global knowledge systems; Definition, Nature and History of African Philosophy; Indigenous African Epistemological Traditions; Negotiated Feminism and Embodied Knowledge in African Contexts and Feminism in African Philosophy. Schließen

12 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00 12 Termine

Mo, 14.04.2025 14:00 - 16:00

Dozenten:
Angela Dziedzom Akorsu