Title: Knowledge production in and on Africa /
Authors: Horáková, Hana; Werkman, Kateřina,
Date: 2016
Publisher: Lit,
Physical description: 289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Contents: Introduction : the contents and the chapters / Hana Horáková -- Knowledge production in and on Africa : knowledge gatekeepers, decolonisation, alternative representations / Hana Horáková -- Africa in international relations : the frontier as concept and metaphor / Daniel C. Bach -- China and the United States in the African petroleum sector : knowledge gaps, myths and poor numbers / Dominik Kopiński -- Reconciliation in Liberia : discourse, knowledge, consequences / Alžběta Šváblová -- Indigenous gardening : plants, indigeneity and settling/unsettling in South Africa / Mvuselelo Ngcoya, Naren Kumarakulasingam -- Afrikaans and institutional identity : a South African university in the crossfire / Stephanie Rudwick -- Is Africa exceptionally infectious? : a comparison of Ebola and SARS coverage in the Czech media / Kateřina Werkman -- "Obscene and diabolic and bloody fetishism" : European conceptualisation of Vodun through the history of Christian missions / Kateřina Mildnerová -- African historians and the production of historical knowledge in Africa : some reflections / Viera Pawlikova-Vilhanova -- The images of Omdurman : the symbolic role of an African city during the period of colonialism from the perspective of archival photographs / Maciej Kurcz -- History production and interpretation on and within French West Africa in 1900-1947 : from a French colonial doctrine to an African perspective / Silvestr Trnovec -- Representations of Africans in the documents of the German Imperial Office and in pre-war academia in the case of German South West Africa / Jarmila Švihranová.
Notes: Essays.
Subject headings (LCSH): Africa--History.; Africa--Intellectual life.; Knowledge economy--Africa.; Knowledge, Sociology of.; Learning and scholarship--Africa.