Ignoring the Obvious About the World
Four Kinds of Not Knowing in African Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22222559 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Tilley (0000-0002-9524-546X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the History of Knowledge (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2632-282X • E-ISSN: 2632-282X |
| Publisher | Journal for the History of Knowledge (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.55283/jhk.19473 |
| OpenAlex | W4406217019 |
| Language | EN |
This essay takes up four kinds of “not knowing” that have been central to knowledge-making in African Studies. I chose ignorance and African history to open a dialogue with the other authors in this issue. The essay deals with therapeutic non-systems, cultural ignorance, disappearing knowledge, and sovereign forms of community care. It uses a now-classic article by Murray Last, on the health-seeking practices of Hausa speakers in northern Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s, as its anchor. Embedded in the essay is a tacit question about the history of anarchic modes of collective organization in places under-served by states
Chose · Hausa · Ignorance · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |