Cultural Studies and the African Global South
Abstract: Cultural studies is not a single discipline with a single derivation from a single paradigm or common epistemological community. The field exhibits multiple derivations from different historical conjunctures and places. This essay examines three instances of cultural studies emanating from...
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ftunivjohannesbu:uj:34254 2023-05-15T17:31:52+02:00 Cultural Studies and the African Global South Tomaselli, Keyan G. 2019 http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407106 English eng http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407106 uj:34254 Citation: Tomaselli, K.G. 2019 : Cultural Studies and the African Global South. @2019, authors Southern Noumenal Africa Article 2019 ftunivjohannesbu 2020-07-21T05:45:10Z Abstract: Cultural studies is not a single discipline with a single derivation from a single paradigm or common epistemological community. The field exhibits multiple derivations from different historical conjunctures and places. This essay examines three instances of cultural studies emanating from within Africa, in relation to the field as it developed in the North Atlantic. What a ‘Southern’ cultural studies offers the North are different ways of making sense and a transnational framework which enables peer-to-peer conversations that continue to elude much Northern theorizing. This transe/trance quality is explained via a discussion of the scientifically unexplainable, superstition and the noumenal. The immateriality of money and its associated human performances as reified by New York stock exchanges is the prime example through which transnational theoretical hybridity is examined. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic The University of Johannesburg: UJContent |
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Abstract: Cultural studies is not a single discipline with a single derivation from a single paradigm or common epistemological community. The field exhibits multiple derivations from different historical conjunctures and places. This essay examines three instances of cultural studies emanating from within Africa, in relation to the field as it developed in the North Atlantic. What a ‘Southern’ cultural studies offers the North are different ways of making sense and a transnational framework which enables peer-to-peer conversations that continue to elude much Northern theorizing. This transe/trance quality is explained via a discussion of the scientifically unexplainable, superstition and the noumenal. The immateriality of money and its associated human performances as reified by New York stock exchanges is the prime example through which transnational theoretical hybridity is examined. |
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Cultural Studies and the African Global South |
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