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This book critically explores Global South perspectives, spotlighting marginalised voices and issues whilst challenging the supremacy of Global North perspectives in literature.
List of contents
1. Embracing Southern Theories for an Inclusive Future; 2. Chinese philosophy's contributions to the Homoverse; 3.
Qi Vitality and Virtue Cultivation: Embodying and Educating for Eco-Cosmic Citizenry; 4. De-Westernising Communication Thought from a Global South Perspective: The Contributions of Indigenous Approaches from Latin America; 5. The Role of indigenous religion in building community resilience: The Case of the Karen, an ethnic minority group in the Myanmar-Thailand border region; 6. Disability, Inclusion, and Gross National Happiness: The Complex Case of Bhutan; 7. Philosophical and practical challenges of
Ubuntu: Application to decolonial activism and conceptions of personhood and disability; 8. Decolonising gender and development: The influence of
Ubuntu philosophy on the articulation of African feminism; 9. Neozapatista decolonial pedagogy: an approach to the disruptive conceptualisation of the learner; 10. Southern Theories: Implications for Epistemic Debates and Sustainable Development
About the author
Oliver Mutanga is a disability scholar with a PhD in development studies from the University of the Free State in South Africa. He is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, and a research associate at the University of South Africa's College of Education. Oliver has been honoured with prestigious awards such as the Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oslo, Norway and the Global Challenges Research Fellowship at University College London's Institute of Education.
Tendayi Marovah is a research fellow at the Open Distance Learning Research Unit, College of Education, University of South Africa (UNISA). He is also a lecturer at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. His research interests include curriculum and pedagogy, higher education, social justice, human development, and theorising using the capability approach and Ubuntu philosophy. Tendayi holds a PhD in Africa studies (history) from the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Tendayi's current practice is grounded in transformative pedagogies informed by Ubuntu philosophy, which aims to develop the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes needed to create a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world.
