The future of African Studies
What we can do to keep Africa at the heart of our research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2173191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I Nolte (0000-0002-8003-9989, University of Birmingham) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 296-313 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13696815.2019.1584552 |
| OpenAlex | W2921417964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 30 |
Over the past two decades, Africa has returned to academic agendas outside of the continent. At the same time, the field of African Studies has come under increasing criticism for its marginalisation of African voices, interests, and agendas. This article explores how the complex transformations of the academy have contributed to a growing division of labour. Increasingly, African scholarship is associated with the production of empirical fact and socio-economic impact rather than theory, with ostensibly local rather than international publication, and with other forms of disadvantage that undermine respectful exchange and engagement. This discourages our engagement with Africa as a place of intellectual production in its own right. By arguing that scholars can and should make a difference to their field, both individually and collectively, the article suggests ways of understanding and engaging with these inequalities
African studies · Criticism · Disadvantage · Field (mathematics · Inequality · Knowledge production · Political economy · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · Law
Dependency and neocolonialism in international research collaboration
“Fake News” and Cyber-Propaganda in Sub-Saharan Africa
From the Margins
The value of development researchers
Decolonising the History of Internationalism
Towards framing the global in global development
Entanglements of decolonial critiques
Within the award funding gap
Towards the systematisation of African ways of knowing
African Studies and Sino-Africa Collaborations
Ethical?! Collaboration?! Keywords for our contradictory times
How Europe underdeveloped Africa
RhodesMustFall
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics
Ethnography and the Meta‐Narratives of Modernity
To Refuse Containment, To Resist Translation
Implicit Meanings
Unsettling the air-conditioned room
The African Academic Diaspora in the United States and Africa
Europhonism, Universities, and the Magic Fountain
Navigating epistemic disarticulations
A Conference That Didn’t
We Thought You Would Be White
African History in British Universities
British African Studies Since the Second World War
Gender and location in African politics scholarship
African scholars and African Studies
Artifice or integrity in the marketization of research impact? Investigating the moral economy of (pathways to) impact statements within research funding proposals in the UK and Australia
Decolonizing methods
African Studies in the Mid-1990s
From Publish or Perish to Publish and Perish
Years of Independence
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Africa
Nigerian Academia and the Politics of Secrecy
African Scholars, African Studies and Knowledge Production on Africa
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |