The global South framework and African philosophy
Epistemologies and Struggles for Emancipation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6030173 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pascah Mungwini (0000-0001-8354-1299, University of South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-5843 • E-ISSN: 1472-5851 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14725843.2024.2442630 |
| OpenAlex | W4405649622 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
The existential conditions that gave birth to the global South as a geopolitical space, an organizing concept, and transnational political imaginary continue to inspire reflective engagements across disciplines including African philosophy. In this article, I draw valuable insights from the global South as both a site of struggle and an analytic framework that addresses various forms of neocolonial domination and exclusion to reflect on the situation in Africa and to argue for the continued articulation of a transformative philosophical discourse in the sense of a sustained offensive against unjustly imposed marginality. Priority focus is on Ubuntu and how it can assist with framing a conception of existence, of justice and of being in the world. It is a reflective enquiry into what Ubuntu can bring to the global South framework. In the context of global South struggles for justice starkly mirrored today in the disproportionate suffering caused by climate change, the principle of intergenerational mutual responsibility derived from Ubuntu as a politico-ethical framework that demands restitution must help construct a world based on justice. Ultimately, emancipative struggles in the global South and analysis thereof must be a discourse anchored firmly on ethics and what it means to be human
Emancipation · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Epistemologies of the South
Reconsidering Reparations
Thinking-feeling with the Earth
An Oral Philosophy of Personhood
The Global South as Subversive Practice
A Revolution Nonetheless
On the contested meaning of ‘philosophy’
The Postcolonial Heart of African Philosophy
The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics
Introduction
From Myth to Reality
Narrating Historical Injustice
Ubuntu
Towards a post-conquest South Africa
African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |