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Challenging Authorities: Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Eastern and Southern Africa
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ISBN13：9783030769239
出版社：Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
作者：Arne S. Steinforth(EDI)
出版日：2021/08/28
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When the notion of 'alternative facts' and the alleged dawning of a
'postfactual' world entered public discourse, social anthropologists
found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact - knowledge accepted as true - derives its
salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby
demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social
category. Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence
experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array ofinsights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, even
outright competition between different postulated authorities. The
contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways inwhich authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa,
investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of
knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thushighlighting the specificities and pluralities in 'modern' societies.
This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding
power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states, (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice,
and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses
of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equalfooting with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other
global settings.
'postfactual' world entered public discourse, social anthropologists
found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact - knowledge accepted as true - derives its
salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby
demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social
category. Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence
experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array ofinsights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, even
outright competition between different postulated authorities. The
contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways inwhich authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa,
investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of
knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thushighlighting the specificities and pluralities in 'modern' societies.
This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding
power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states, (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice,
and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses
of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equalfooting with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other
global settings.
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