Thinking with the South: Reframing Research Collaboration amid Decolonial Imperatives and Challenges

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2024

Thinking with the South

Reframing Research Collaboration amid Decolonial Imperatives and Challenges

Edited by: Andrea Fleschenberg , Kai Kresse and Rosa Cordillera Castillo
Funded by: Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

Volume 44 in the series ZMO-Studien

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110780567

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Open Access

This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came out of the Berlin-based "co²libri" networking initiative, with longstanding collaborative partners based in the global South. "Co²libri" stands for "conceptual collaboration: living borderless research interaction". As an interdisciplinary and transregional oriented initiative, co²libri envisages a multicentric perspective that integrates neglected positions of Southern theory and praxis into the heart of academic conversations. Co²libri’s collaborative endeavor builds on long-standing active connections with partners in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Instead of setting an agenda from the North, it proposes to figure out ways forward through collaborative engagement, building on relationships of mutual trust. Using formats that facilitate substantial and open-ended discussion, we are re-thinking theory and method, academic practices, and research ethics, while keeping material inequalities in view.

Contributors to this edited volume are working toward the implementation of various innovative activities, research perspectives and collaboration formats which all subscribe to the principle of dialogue on equal footing with scholars and activists based in divergent positionalities along and beyond the Global North-South divide. In different ways, the authors work toward the goal of producing more adequate, and more sensitive, critical knowledge, and applying a fresh view to approach, methods, and ethical standards. Overall, the volume works, sometimes in exploratory ways, with alternative frames of reference while it presents diverse theorizations of lived experiences.

Author / Editor information

Andrea Fleschenberg und Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Kai Kresse, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface and Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
About the Cover Image Clod Marlan Krister V. Yambao Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: Reframing, Re-enacting Research and Collaboration Andrea Fleschenberg, Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo and Kai Kresse Open Access Download PDF	1
Part One: Openings
What Good Is Southern Theorising? Ahsan Kamal Open Access Download PDF	25
Marxism, Communitarianism and Communalism in Africa Sanya Osha Open Access Download PDF	43
Forum I: Decolonising Academic Cooperation Prince K. Guma, Grace Akello and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Open Access Download PDF	63
Forum II: ‘Reversing the Gaze’?! – Revisiting a Key Concept Elísio Macamo and Nahed Samour Open Access Download PDF	95
Part Two: Reflections
The Conflicted Decolonial Scholar: A Journey Through the Dialectics of Becoming, Un-becoming and Being, in Struggle with the People Fatima Alvarez Castillo Open Access Download PDF	113
Feminist Research and Civil Society Engagement as Scholactivism: The Case of the Women and Memory Forum in Egypt Hala Kamal Open Access Download PDF	129
Pragmatic Research, Critical Knowledge and Political Relevance: A Self-Reflexive Perspective Salim Hmimnat Open Access Download PDF	151
Whose Stories, Whose Voices, Whose Narratives? Challenging the Western Gaze on Afghanistan – Exploring Ethical Knowledge Co-Production in Afghanistan Susanne Schmeidl Open Access Download PDF	177
Academic Tamasha and Its Limits under the Shadow of Authoritarianism Fathima Nizaruddin Open Access Download PDF	201
Hegemony and Decolonising Research Praxis: A Researcher’s Journey in the Peripheries of Pakistan Abida Bano Open Access Download PDF	215
A Political Ecology of Remembering for Dayaks of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo June Rubis Open Access Download PDF	249
Visualising Research in South Asia Beyond Pandemic Times: Reflections and Future Directions Muhammad Salman Khan, Sarah Holz and Andrea Fleschenberg Open Access Download PDF	275
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	307

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scientists in Islamic and African studies, anthropologists, sociologists, cultural scientists
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 311
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 3
Keywords: Decolonial thought; science criticism; Southern theory; (trans)regional history

eBook

Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783110780567

Hardcover

Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783110780352