Artwell Nhemachena
Biographic Data
| ID | 598279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Artwell Nhemachena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Artwell |
| FAMILY NAME | Nhemachena |
| SIGNATURE | NHEMACHENA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0811-9052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 10 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Research 4.0 and the Ontological Turn
Drawing on the term 'Research 4.0' to describe research that relies on twenty-first- century convergent technologies that are defining industry 4.0, including human sensory enhancements, this paper interrogates the ontological turn to interface spirituality and technology. Drawing on fieldwork in Zimbabwe, this paper contends that Research 4.0 enhances relational fieldwork, which is an aspect of the ontological turn, but it cautions that African …
Farewell ethnography and welcome relanegraphy? Insights from researching the Russia-Ukraine war
Noting the recent relational turn in disciplines such as anthropology and sociology, this paper draws on insights from the Russia-Ukraine war, also named special military operation, to postulate what it calls relanegraphy to theorize relations and their modular negations. In other words, relanegraphy offers a research design and theoretical position attuned to the recent ontological turn in technoscientific scholarship interested in a world that …
Violence on the horizon
Horizons are notoriously difficult places to carry out research because they keep on shifting and thus deny researchers the necessary immersion to do participant observation, or even to gain access to such horizons for fieldwork. Drawing on fieldwork in southeastern Zimbabwe, this article critically discusses several horizons in a context of witchcraft-related violence and interparty political violence. Arguing that methodologies which focus on t…
Coloniality of Democracy and Algocracy in Africa
Originating from a Greek goddess called Demokratia, democracy constitutes a coup de 'tat against African spirituality and against Afrocentric politics. Subjected not only to the Greek goddess Demokratia but also to algocracy, corporatocracy, and technocracy, African politics has long ceased to be Afrocentric in the sense of serving the material interests of African people. Drawing on the Shona (a people of Zimbabwe) term vanhu (humans) to coin th…
Curriculum Transformation for the Futuristic Worlds
The Russia-Ukraine War from an African Perspective
Even Chameleons Stalk Their Prey
Arguing that chameleons know best how to appear to be stationary even as they are motionary towards targeted flies, at which they suddenly dart their swift tongues once within range, this paper contends that the emergent postbinary world order is a chameleons’ world; it is a world where Africans – deemed, in Eurocentric animistic discourses, to be indistinct from flies – will be increasingly cannibalised. Of course, chameleons use sleights of ton…
When the Past Returns as the Future
Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza
Africans need to be careful with discourses on coloniality that avoid dealing with central aberrations of colonialism. Focusing on coloniality of power, coloniality of being, coloniality of knowledge and coloniality of gender, contemporary discourses on coloniality sidestepped a central aspect of colonialism. Motivated not by quests to merely exercise power, as is assumed in coloniality of power; and motivated not merely by quests to dominate Afr…
Sovereignty Becoming Pulvereignty
Missionaries that “Muted” God
Academics with Clay Feet? Anthropological Perspectives on Academic Freedom in Twenty-First Century African Universities
Kukumirwa Semombe Dzamavhu
Hakuna Mhou Inokumira Mhuru Isiri Yayo
Colonially depicted as a region distinctive for fables and fabrications, Africa has ever since not been allowed to reclaim anything original. Dispossessed of their original wealth, Africans have been forced to live in fabled and fabricated houses, eating fabled, and fabricated food—closer to animals. Similarly, dispossessed of their original human identities, Africans have been forced to adopt fabricated identities. With the 21st century not prom…
Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of Technocolonialism
Centuries-old Colonial/Imperial Denialism of African Originality
Worse Than “Bushmen” and Transhumance? Transitology and the Resilient Cannibalization of African Heritages
Although Eurocentric scholars theorize the world in terms of Western evolutionary progress rather than de-evolutionary retrogression, this paper takes a different perspective. Forced to transition away from their tangible and intangible heritages, from their families and marriages, cultures, societies, polities, and economies in ways that legitimized imperial claims to res nullius (unowned resources) and terra nullius (empty land), some indigenou…
Relationality or Hospitality in Twenty-First Century Research? Big Data, Internet of Things, and the Resilience of Coloniality on Africa
In a supposedly relational world, African people are increasingly datafied, dehumanised and denied self-knowledge, self-mastery, self-organization and data sovereignty. They are datafied, dehumanised and recolonised by foreign corporations and states engaged in the new scramble for African data. Arguing for more attention to data sovereignty, this article notes that the relational Internet of Things and Big Data threaten the autonomy, privacy, da…
Displacement, Elimination and Replacement of Indigenous People
From African Peer Review Mechanisms to African Queer Review Mechanisms?
Grid-locked African Economic Sovereignty
Displacement, elimination and replacement of indigenous people
Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality
Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality
Relationality and Resilience in a Not So Relational World?
Academics with Clay Feet? Anthropological Perspectives on Academic Freedom in Twenty-First Century African Universities
Violence on the horizon
Horizons are notoriously difficult places to carry out research because they keep on shifting and thus deny researchers the necessary immersion to do participant observation, or even to gain access to such horizons for fieldwork. Drawing on fieldwork in southeastern Zimbabwe, this article critically discusses several horizons in a context of witchcraft-related violence and interparty political violence. Arguing that methodologies which focus on t…
Indigenous Knowledge, Conflation and Post-colonial Translation
Relationality and Resilience in a Not So Relational World?
Africa at the Crossroads
GMOs, Consumerism and the Global Politics of Biotechnology
Mining Africa. Law, Environment, Society and Politics in Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality
Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality
Displacement, Elimination and Replacement of Indigenous People
From African Peer Review Mechanisms to African Queer Review Mechanisms?
Grid-locked African Economic Sovereignty
Displacement, elimination and replacement of indigenous people
Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of Technocolonialism
Centuries-old Colonial/Imperial Denialism of African Originality
Worse Than “Bushmen” and Transhumance? Transitology and the Resilient Cannibalization of African Heritages
Although Eurocentric scholars theorize the world in terms of Western evolutionary progress rather than de-evolutionary retrogression, this paper takes a different perspective. Forced to transition away from their tangible and intangible heritages, from their families and marriages, cultures, societies, polities, and economies in ways that legitimized imperial claims to res nullius (unowned resources) and terra nullius (empty land), some indigenou…
Relationality or Hospitality in Twenty-First Century Research? Big Data, Internet of Things, and the Resilience of Coloniality on Africa
In a supposedly relational world, African people are increasingly datafied, dehumanised and denied self-knowledge, self-mastery, self-organization and data sovereignty. They are datafied, dehumanised and recolonised by foreign corporations and states engaged in the new scramble for African data. Arguing for more attention to data sovereignty, this article notes that the relational Internet of Things and Big Data threaten the autonomy, privacy, da…
Hakuna Mhou Inokumira Mhuru Isiri Yayo
Colonially depicted as a region distinctive for fables and fabrications, Africa has ever since not been allowed to reclaim anything original. Dispossessed of their original wealth, Africans have been forced to live in fabled and fabricated houses, eating fabled, and fabricated food—closer to animals. Similarly, dispossessed of their original human identities, Africans have been forced to adopt fabricated identities. With the 21st century not prom…
Sovereignty Becoming Pulvereignty
Missionaries that “Muted” God
Academics with Clay Feet? Anthropological Perspectives on Academic Freedom in Twenty-First Century African Universities
Kukumirwa Semombe Dzamavhu
The Russia-Ukraine War from an African Perspective
Even Chameleons Stalk Their Prey
Arguing that chameleons know best how to appear to be stationary even as they are motionary towards targeted flies, at which they suddenly dart their swift tongues once within range, this paper contends that the emergent postbinary world order is a chameleons’ world; it is a world where Africans – deemed, in Eurocentric animistic discourses, to be indistinct from flies – will be increasingly cannibalised. Of course, chameleons use sleights of ton…
When the Past Returns as the Future
Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza
Africans need to be careful with discourses on coloniality that avoid dealing with central aberrations of colonialism. Focusing on coloniality of power, coloniality of being, coloniality of knowledge and coloniality of gender, contemporary discourses on coloniality sidestepped a central aspect of colonialism. Motivated not by quests to merely exercise power, as is assumed in coloniality of power; and motivated not merely by quests to dominate Afr…
Farewell ethnography and welcome relanegraphy? Insights from researching the Russia-Ukraine war
Noting the recent relational turn in disciplines such as anthropology and sociology, this paper draws on insights from the Russia-Ukraine war, also named special military operation, to postulate what it calls relanegraphy to theorize relations and their modular negations. In other words, relanegraphy offers a research design and theoretical position attuned to the recent ontological turn in technoscientific scholarship interested in a world that …
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · History (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)