Anatoli Ignatov
Biographic Data
| ID | 311203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anatoli Ignatov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anatoli |
| FAMILY NAME | Ignatov |
| SIGNATURE | IGNATOV A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Appalachian State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Contested Politics of Intergenerational Land and Gender Justice in Northern Ghana
African Vitalism and the Politics of Entangled Humanism
Thoreau Goes to Ghana
Agurumyela's art of connection
This article explores the innovative and hybrid intellectual project of Christopher Azaare Anabila. Since 1976, Azaare has been documenting the histories of the Gurensi and Boosi people of northern Ghana and has crafted genealogical maps of whole villages and clans. He has written manuscripts on taboos, totems, proverbs, missionary activities, cultural institutions and anti-colonial resistance. Because of this work, people have begun to refer to …
Entangled Humanism as a Political Project
Border Walls Gone Green
“Absent a massive resistance, more border walls are in our future,” warns John Hultgren in the conclusion of his book Border Walls Gone Green (p. 179). The book strips Donald Trump’s rise to power
The Earth as a Gift-Giving Ancestor
This article puts into conversation Friedrich Nietzsche’s perspectivism and a particular expression of “African animism,” drawn from my ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana. Nietzsche’s perspectivism extends interpretation beyond the human species into natural processes. Like perspectivism, African animism troubles the binaries—body/soul, nature/culture—that permeate anthropocentric thinking. Human-nonhuman relations are refigured as socio-ecological …
African Orature as Ecophilosophy
This article puts political theory and ethnography into an engagement with orature to advance a new model of agency, authority, and collectivity, in which politics reveals itself to be an “ecological” process involving the conjoint action of the living, the ancestors, and the land. I explore the orature of the Gurensi and Boosi people of Ghana in relation to Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of “minor literature,” which refers to a way of appropriating…
Thoreau Goes to Ghana
Practices of Eco-sensation
Practices of Eco-sensation:Opening Doors of Perception to the Nonhuman Anatoli Ignatov (bio) Landscapes must be painted with the eyes and not with the prejudices that are in our heads. – Pablo Picasso1 Whether through words, colors, sounds, or stone art is the language of sensations. – Deleuze and Guattari2 Take a lump of sugar: It has a spatial configuration. But if we approach it from that angle, all we will ever grasp are differences in degree…
The Earth as a Gift-Giving Ancestor
This article puts into conversation Friedrich Nietzsche’s perspectivism and a particular expression of “African animism,” drawn from my ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana. Nietzsche’s perspectivism extends interpretation beyond the human species into natural processes. Like perspectivism, African animism troubles the binaries—body/soul, nature/culture—that permeate anthropocentric thinking. Human-nonhuman relations are refigured as socio-ecological …
Entangled Humanism as a Political Project
Practices of Eco-sensation
Practices of Eco-sensation:Opening Doors of Perception to the Nonhuman Anatoli Ignatov (bio) Landscapes must be painted with the eyes and not with the prejudices that are in our heads. – Pablo Picasso1 Whether through words, colors, sounds, or stone art is the language of sensations. – Deleuze and Guattari2 Take a lump of sugar: It has a spatial configuration. But if we approach it from that angle, all we will ever grasp are differences in degree…
Thoreau Goes to Ghana
African Orature as Ecophilosophy
This article puts political theory and ethnography into an engagement with orature to advance a new model of agency, authority, and collectivity, in which politics reveals itself to be an “ecological” process involving the conjoint action of the living, the ancestors, and the land. I explore the orature of the Gurensi and Boosi people of Ghana in relation to Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of “minor literature,” which refers to a way of appropriating…
Border Walls Gone Green
“Absent a massive resistance, more border walls are in our future,” warns John Hultgren in the conclusion of his book Border Walls Gone Green (p. 179). The book strips Donald Trump’s rise to power
The Earth as a Gift-Giving Ancestor
This article puts into conversation Friedrich Nietzsche’s perspectivism and a particular expression of “African animism,” drawn from my ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana. Nietzsche’s perspectivism extends interpretation beyond the human species into natural processes. Like perspectivism, African animism troubles the binaries—body/soul, nature/culture—that permeate anthropocentric thinking. Human-nonhuman relations are refigured as socio-ecological …
Entangled Humanism as a Political Project
Thoreau Goes to Ghana
Agurumyela's art of connection
This article explores the innovative and hybrid intellectual project of Christopher Azaare Anabila. Since 1976, Azaare has been documenting the histories of the Gurensi and Boosi people of northern Ghana and has crafted genealogical maps of whole villages and clans. He has written manuscripts on taboos, totems, proverbs, missionary activities, cultural institutions and anti-colonial resistance. Because of this work, people have begun to refer to …
African Vitalism and the Politics of Entangled Humanism
The Contested Politics of Intergenerational Land and Gender Justice in Northern Ghana
Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)