Who We Are
The Global South Epistemologies Research Centre seeks to promote and disseminate knowledge and research with Global South, Decolonial, Postcolonial and Subaltern perspectives. We recognize the challenges that scholars and academics from the Global South face in accessing contents by and with a Global South epistemic perspective and in undertaking research and publishing their findings especially when such research does not endorse modernist thinking. Our mission therefore is to serve as a platform for global south epistemologies education through knowledge building, sharing and dissemination. We hope to bring to the interested public information about books, articles, videos, podcasts etc that may facilitate engagement with epistemologies of the Global South. We also hope to use this platform to disseminate and popularize global south contents which in the majority remain unknown even among many young researchers and academics in the Global South due to restrictive access to publication sites especially located in the Global North.
Our Activities
- International Themed Research Conferences
- Annual Postgraduate Methodology Seminars
- Book Reviews
- Book Editing, Proof Reading and Publishing
- Journal (Global South Perspectives)
- Methodology/thematic/theoretical workshops
- Mentorship (MA/PhD Candidates and Emerging Scholars)
- Networking/Grants, Scholarships/Fellowships Search
- Research Counselling and Consultancy
Our Focus
The field includes the study of Africa’s history (pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial), demography (ethnic groups), culture, politics, economy, languages, and religion (Islam, Christianity, traditional religions). A specialist in African studies is often referred to as an “africanist”
Decolonial perspectives understand colonialism as the basis for the everyday function of capitalist modernity and imperialism. Decoloniality emerged as part of a South America movement examining the role of the European colonization of the Americas in establishing Eurocentric modernity/coloniality
The concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies is designed to help students develop an interdisciplinary understanding of culture, history, and contemporary issues in Latin America
Post-colonialism explores the relationship between imperialism and identity, especially the representation of ethnic minorities in the media. It also draws attention to new forms of colonialism, including the global economic system and the use “soft” power
The subaltern standpoint approach draws upon Southern theory and indigenous sociology to ground social theory in the experiences and practices of colonized and postcolonial social actors. The approach is grounded theoretically in feminist standpoint theory and scientific perspectivism in science studies.
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Postcolonial theory holds that decolonized people develop a postcolonial identity that is based on cultural interactions between different identities (cultural, national, and ethnic as well as gender and class based) which are assigned varying degrees of social power by the colonial society.
Deconstruction generally tries to demonstrate that any text is not a discrete whole but contains several irreconcilable and contradictory meanings; that any text therefore has more than one interpretation; that the text itself links these interpretations inextricably; that the incompatibility of these interpretations
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