Geri Augusto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1155429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geri Augusto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geri |
| FAMILY NAME | Augusto |
| SIGNATURE | AUGUSTO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | African Studies Association |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adapting Critical Oral History Methodology to Freedom Movement Studies
In the 1980s and 1990s, scholars James Blight and janet Lang created a methodology, called critical oral history (COH), as part of their investigation of the origins of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. This article explores how our team of freedom movement veterans and scholars adapted the COH methodology during six years of experimentation between 2015-2021, as we drove for a deeper understanding of the US civil rights/Black Power f…
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?
Transnacionalismo Negro: A Encruzilhada De Amefrican@s
Este artigo utiliza duas narrativas de jornadas pessoais de transna-cionalismo negro a partir dos escritos e das ideias de Lelia Gonzalez e Ella Baker, mulheres negras pensadoras ativistas, seminais e radicais, para refletir sobre a carga tripla enfrentada por trabalhadoras domésticas negras no Brasil e nos EUA. Consideram-se as ideiase formas de vida da aldeia contemporânea de quilombolas pescadores e pescadoras, visto do jardim de uma marisquei…
Language Should Not Keep Us Apart! Reflections towards a Black Transnational Praxis of Translation
Language Should Not Keep Us Apart!Reflections towards a Black Transnational Praxis of Translation Geri Augusto (bio) Imploro-te ExuPlantares na minha bocaO teu axé verbalRestituindo-me a línguaQue era minhaE ma roubaram ...Laroiê! —Abdias do Nascimento, “Padê do Exu Libertador” Buffalo, New York, 1981 There is no world of thought which is not a world of language, and one sees of the world only what is provided for by language. —Walter Benjamin, “…
Knowledge free and ‘unfree’: Epistemic tensions in plant knowledge at the Cape in the 17 th and 18 th centuries1
This article utilises the same epistemic objects, particular indigenous medicinal plants of the Cape region, to explore the gamut of epistemologies in contested, dynamic tension in the early Cape Colony: That of the frontiersman, the Khoikhoi, the Sonqua or Sankwe, and the slave. Drawing on a transdisciplinary set of literatures, the article puts Africana studies, the study of indigenous knowledge systems, and social studies of science and techno…
Transforming Knowledge, Changing Knowledge Relations, and Epistemic Openness in the University in Africa
Adapting Critical Oral History Methodology to Freedom Movement Studies
In the 1980s and 1990s, scholars James Blight and janet Lang created a methodology, called critical oral history (COH), as part of their investigation of the origins of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. This article explores how our team of freedom movement veterans and scholars adapted the COH methodology during six years of experimentation between 2015-2021, as we drove for a deeper understanding of the US civil rights/Black Power f…
Knowledge free and ‘unfree’: Epistemic tensions in plant knowledge at the Cape in the 17 th and 18 th centuries1
This article utilises the same epistemic objects, particular indigenous medicinal plants of the Cape region, to explore the gamut of epistemologies in contested, dynamic tension in the early Cape Colony: That of the frontiersman, the Khoikhoi, the Sonqua or Sankwe, and the slave. Drawing on a transdisciplinary set of literatures, the article puts Africana studies, the study of indigenous knowledge systems, and social studies of science and techno…
Transforming Knowledge, Changing Knowledge Relations, and Epistemic Openness in the University in Africa
Language Should Not Keep Us Apart! Reflections towards a Black Transnational Praxis of Translation
Language Should Not Keep Us Apart!Reflections towards a Black Transnational Praxis of Translation Geri Augusto (bio) Imploro-te ExuPlantares na minha bocaO teu axé verbalRestituindo-me a línguaQue era minhaE ma roubaram ...Laroiê! —Abdias do Nascimento, “Padê do Exu Libertador” Buffalo, New York, 1981 There is no world of thought which is not a world of language, and one sees of the world only what is provided for by language. —Walter Benjamin, “…
Transnacionalismo Negro: A Encruzilhada De Amefrican@s
Este artigo utiliza duas narrativas de jornadas pessoais de transna-cionalismo negro a partir dos escritos e das ideias de Lelia Gonzalez e Ella Baker, mulheres negras pensadoras ativistas, seminais e radicais, para refletir sobre a carga tripla enfrentada por trabalhadoras domésticas negras no Brasil e nos EUA. Consideram-se as ideiase formas de vida da aldeia contemporânea de quilombolas pescadores e pescadoras, visto do jardim de uma marisquei…
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?
Adapting Critical Oral History Methodology to Freedom Movement Studies
In the 1980s and 1990s, scholars James Blight and janet Lang created a methodology, called critical oral history (COH), as part of their investigation of the origins of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. This article explores how our team of freedom movement veterans and scholars adapted the COH methodology during six years of experimentation between 2015-2021, as we drove for a deeper understanding of the US civil rights/Black Power f…
Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Knowledge management (2 works) · Law (2 works)