Africanity and Ubuntu as decolonizing discourse / Otrude Nontobeko Moyo.
Moyo, Otrude Nontobeko, author.
2021
B5315.U28
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Title Africanity and Ubuntu as decolonizing discourse / Otrude Nontobeko Moyo.
Author Moyo, Otrude Nontobeko, author.
ISBN 9783030597856 (electronic bk.)
3030597857 (electronic bk.)
9783030597849 hardcover
3030597849 hardcover
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59785-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG , [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-59785-6 doi
Call Number B5315.U28
Dewey Decimal Classification 325.3096
Summary This book explores and discusses emerging perspectives of Ubuntu from the vantage point of ordinary people and connects it to human rights and decolonizing discourses. It engages a decolonizing perspective in writing about Ubuntu as an indigenous concept. The fore grounding argument is that ones positionality speaks to particular interests that may continue to sustain oppressions instead of confronting and dismantling them. Therefore, a decolonial approach to writing indigenous experiences begins with transparency about the researchers own positionality. The emerging perspectives of this volume are contextual, highlighting the need for a critical reading for emerging, transformative and alternative visions in human relations and social structures. Otrude Nontobeko Moyo is a Social Work Professor & Program Director at Indiana University South Bend, USA.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed September 1, 2021).
Series Human rights interventions.
Available in Other Form Africanity and Ubuntu as decolonizing discourse.
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Situating Ubuntu Outside the Power of Coloniality
Situating the Study of Ubuntu within Lived Experiences of Africa
Starting Where One Is
Voice as a Guide in Understanding Ubuntu
Voice as Autobiography
Voice as Witness
Decolonializing Methods: Voice as Preoccupation
Voice as Discerning Other Voices, Listening for Voice
Voice as Dialogue: Researching and Learning Together
Voice as Interpretation
References
2 Unpacking Public Discourses of Ubuntu a Decoloniality Approach

Introduction: Why a Decoloniality Approach?
My Own Positionality as I Read Ubuntu
Reading Ubuntu in Public Discourse
Excavating the Meaning of Ubuntu in Written Texts
Paradoxes in Prevailing Notions of Ubuntu
Ubuntu as Personhood
Ubuntu as the Essence of "Being" Human-Relationality
Ubuntu as Human Value-Claims to Human Dignity
Ubuntu as a Worldview Encompassing Every Facet of African Life
The Contextual Definition of Ubuntu and Its Varied Meanings
Figure 2.1: A Summary of Emerging Public Discourses of Ubuntu, 1990s-Present
Uses of Ubuntu Discourses

Ubuntu Images
Conclusion
References
3 Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves: Diverse Realities and Perspectives on Ubuntu in Eastern Cape, South Africa
Ubuntu-Situating the Voices of Ordinary People
Developing the Portraits and Using Narratives
Ordinary Folks, Extraordinary Perspectives of Ubuntu: What Does Ubuntu Mean to You?
Ubuntu as Ethics of Care for One Another
Ubuntu as Positive Affirmation of "Africanness"
Ubuntu as Absent or Broken
The Absence of Ubuntu Interpersonally, Structurally, and Culturally
Ubuntu as Return to Indigeneity

Awareness of Our Sociopolitical Context and Environment
Regeneration of Community Through the Land
Intentional Spiritual and Relational Consciousness
Conclusion
References
4 Performing Africanity Southern African Immigrants' Perspectives on Ubuntu
A Brief Overview of the Research Process: (W)Riting Ourselves
Ubuntu as Regeneration of Community
Ubuntu as (W)Riting Our Own Narratives
Ubuntu as Spiritual Consciousness
Ubuntu as Performing Africanity
Conclusion
References
5 Africanity and Decolonizing Discourses: Ubuntu Emerging Perspectives

Ubuntu and Positionality
Contextual Definitions of Ubuntu
Emerging Public Discourses of Ubuntu
Emerging Perspectives on Ubuntu and the African Aesthetic
Ubuntu as African Lived Realities (Ontology)
Ubuntu as a Knowledge System (Epistemology)
Ubuntu as Axiology: What Things Are Valued?
Concluding Thoughts
References
Index

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