VIOLENCE IN/AND THE GREAT LAKES - MUDIMBE

Violence in/and the Great Lakes: The Thought of V.Y. Mudimbe and Beyond is in the best sense of the term a homage to Valentin Mudimbe. This collection of essays honours the intellectual legacy of Mudimbe for decades now one of Africa and the diaspora's most significant minds by taking up the challenges - ethical political philosophical literary sociological anthropological psychological - his work poses. This book gathers a group of US- and Africa-based scholars many of whom are long-time Mudimbe collaborators and colleagues who use the questions posed the critiques and insights offered and the paradigms constructed by Mudimbe's oeuvre to understand the implication - and in some instances the application - of Mudimbe's work in our moment.In this way the project is true to Mudimbe's deepest commitment because the collection for all the range of its contributions for all the variegated and often dissonant - yet resonant - ways in which the authors take up Mudimbe's thinking never strays too far from the historic question of violence and the effects of that violence in the Great Lakes region of Africa; and indeed of violence in Africa itself. This is in every important way the founding inquiry of Mudimbe's work and it is sustained in this collection; and as importantly it is given new life new philosophical shape new political impetus because it is a question that continues to haunt Mudimbe's writing and of course the continent itself. In so honouring Mudimbe this book is grounded in a key contribution by Mudimbe himself. Mudimbe is thus as has long been his wont reflecting upon his work in the company of those scholars whose work he has influenced and whom it is clear have been important interlocutors for Mudimbe.Contributors: Justin K. Bisanswa Ngwarsungu Chiwengo Grant Farred Olga Hel-Bongo Kasereka Kavwahirehi Laura Kerr V-Y Mudimbe Leonhard Praeg and Zubairu Wai.

TITLE: VIOLENCE IN/AND THE GREAT LAKES

AUTHOR: MUDIMBE

SKU: 9781869142841

PUBLISHER: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

DATE PUBLISHED: 15/09/2014

PLACE PUBLISHED: South Africa

PAGES: 240

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 170 mm x 230 mm