The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje (eBook)

Bongani Nyoka (Autor)

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2020 | Main
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-596-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This comprehensive treatment of Archie Mafeje as a prominent African thinker and researcher analyses his overall scholarship in the social sciences, his thinking on land and agrarian issues and his role as a theoretician of liberation and revolutionary theory.

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Social scientist Archie Mafeje, who was born in the Eastern Cape but lived most of his scholarly life in exile, was one of Africa's most prominent intellectuals. This ground-breaking book is the first to consider the entire body of Mafeje's oeuvre and offers much-needed engagement with his ideas. The most inclusive and critical treatment to date of Mafeje as a thinker and researcher, it does not aim to be a biography , but rather offers an analysis of his overall scholarship and his role as a theoretician of liberation and revolution in Africa. Bongani Nyoka argues that Mafeje's superb scholarship developed out of both his experience as an oppressed black person and his early political education. These, merged with his university training, turned him into a formidable cutting-edge intellectual force. Nyoka begins with an evaluation of Mafeje's critique of the social sciences; his focus then shifts to Mafeje's work on land and agrarian issues in sub-Saharan Africa, before finally dealing with his work on revolutionary theory and politics. By bringing Mafeje's work to the fore, Nyoka engages in an act of knowledge decolonisation, thus making a unique contribution to South studies in sociology, history and politics.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I A Critique of the Social Sciences Chapter 1 From Functionalism to Radical Social Science Chapter 2 A Totalising Critique Chapter 3 Reading Mafeje’s The Theory and Ethnography of African Social Formations Part II On Land and Agrarian Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter 4 The Land and Agrarian Question Chapter 5 Peasants, Food Security and Poverty Eradication Part III On Revolutionary Theory and Politics Chapter 6 Neocolonialism, State Capitalism and Underdevelopment Chapter 7 Liberation Struggles in South Africa Notes Bibliography Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Verlagsort: Johannesburg
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-77614-596-8 / 1776145968
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77614-596-6 / 9781776145966