Fatal misconceptions : colonial durabilities, violence and epistemicide in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

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Titre	Fatal misconceptions : colonial durabilities, violence and epistemicide in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
Type de publication	Article de périodique
Date de publication	2022
Auteur	Charlotte MERTENS Stéphanie PERAZZONE David MWAMBARI
Editeur scientifique	Charlotte MERTENS Stéphanie PERAZZONE David MWAMBARI
Titre du périodique	Critical African Studies
Volume ou tome	14
N° de la livraison	1
Pages de ... à (pp. x-x)	2-18
Genre	article scientifique
DOI	10.1080/21681392.2022.2059901
URL	https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2022.2059901
Résumé/Présentation	" The contributions of this special issue explore the concept of colonial durabilities in a bidto unearth both the concrete and invisible sites through which coloniality continues tocirculate and materialise in the African Great Lakes Region (GLR). Colonial durabilities,we argue, are non-linear dynamic processes that suffuse the realities and structures of international and national politics, as well as the conduct of daily life. These become particularly evident in the knowledge economy of the GLR, in endeavours as broad asstate building and everyday practices, within international development and peacebuildinginterventions, and in academic theorising, methodologies and writing formats. Weintroduce the papers in this special issue that urge us to address an important question : Can we truly decolonise if we do not fully understand the coloniality of the present andits effects ? We argue a careful investigation of the structural conditions that enable coloniality to actively form and re-form is essential to accurately understand real-world ramifications of asymmetrical power relations, a crucial aspect of the process of decolonisation. Lastly, we reflect on avenues for re-thinking the effects of colonial durabilities and to work towards generating anti-/de-colonial knowledges to perhaps achieve ‘epistemic freedom."
Référence complète	Mertens, Charlotte ; Perazzone, Stéphanie ; Mwambari, David. Fatal misconceptions : colonial durabilities, violence and epistemicide in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, In : Critical African Studies, 14, n°1 (Colonial Durabilities in the Contemporary African Great Lakes Region), 2022, p. 2-18. Published online: 05 May 2022.

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Charlotte MERTENS

Biographie : "Charlotte Mertens is a researcher at the University of Melbourne. Her work focuses on sexual violence in conflict settings, particularly in eastern DRC. She is interested in representations of violence, the sexual politics of empire, colonial history, and racial epistemologies. Working with the colonial archives, her research is attentive to histories of colonialism and how these endure in present eastern Congo, where she has been conducting fieldwork since 2012." (https://www.academia.edu/39193158/ - 05.2019)
Nationalité : Belgique