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      Defiant scholarship: Dismantling coloniality in contemporary African geographies

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      Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
      Wiley

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          Abstract

          Colonial epistemes persist in studies of African geographies. We argue that colonial continuities are revealed in (a) the status of human geography within African higher education; (b) the marginalization of Africa (particularly beyond Southern Africa) within the discipline of human geography; and (c) erasures of the functions of racialization in African societies. These are compounded by the relative marginalization of African knowledge within decolonial thought, including decolonial geographies and the disunities between the subfields of black geographies and African geographies. To challenge some of these dynamics, we introduce the concept of defiant scholarship in Africa, a form of scholarship that seeks to work against and outside of dominant grammars and prevailing registers and which draws from a powerful and extensive intellectual tradition across the African continent. Working from Walter Rodney's ‘guerrilla intellectuals’ and drawing on Walter Mignolo's ‘epistemic disobedience’, defiant scholarship cultivates those ways of thinking and those practices that are external to, in opposition to, and/or unconventional to the coloniality of knowledge. We ask what it means for our scholarship to be disobedient to colonial and capitalist epistemes, and, in so doing, we sketch the contours of an African geographies subdiscipline that is anti‐racist, decolonial, and in active conversation with black geographies. The result of our engagement is a call for a reinvigoration of African geographies as we currently know and practice them.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
                Singap J Trop Geogr
                Wiley
                0129-7619
                1467-9493
                May 2022
                March 24 2022
                May 2022
                : 43
                : 2
                : 159-176
                Affiliations
                [1 ] School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford UK
                Article
                10.1111/sjtg.12422
                79191ab4-56b1-495b-8549-5dfa30d23839
                © 2022

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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