Call for Papers 2024.1: Pensamento Africano Libertário/African Libertarian Thought

Call for Papers 2024.1:

Pensamento Africano Libertário/African Libertarian Thought

 

Orgs: Bruno Ribeiro Oliveira(Universidad de Granada) / José Rivair Macedo (Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)

Deadline 2025.2: 15 de junho de 2024/June 15th, 2024

In the fields of knowledge produced in the Western world, Africa and Africans tend to be seen, framed and interpreted from references marked by exoticization, hierarchization, assimilationist and devaluing classification, at different levels of subordination, invisibilization and erasure, connected to processes of imperial politics, economic and cultural domination whose claim of inferiority lead the people of that continent to be seen as an appendage of Western history and its global domination. Such fiction, supported by weapons, institutions and intellects, brutal in their acts and effects, words and world views, has been challenged by alternative and contestatory forms of expression that emerged in a global context, in which African thought is distinguished by its originality and creative expression, through the search for what the Nigerian historian Toyn Falola described as “defining power”.

Considering the little space reserved in Brazil and Latin America for the discussion about works marked by Afrocentrism, Afroperspectivism or other Afro-referenced modes of interpretation, in this thematic dossier we intend to bring together articles on categories, concepts and dissident epistemological perspectives produced by African thinkers and revolutionary African women. heterodox, feminist, queer, contestatory, radical, critical, anti-colonial, post-colonial, decolonial and anti-racist, who contributed and/or contribute to analyzes of the reality of Africa and Africans in the past, in the present or that envision different perspectives for the future.

The analysis about avant-gardists linked to different regions, classes, races and gender identities who, both in periods of domination, armed struggle, stability or transformation, showed and still show the epistemic audacity of proposing innovative versions of rupture or the revolution in the field of African thought, whether or not it is connected to other continents and cultures, are among the priority objectives sought by this issue of the journal Brathair. For this reason, contributions that present research results, evaluations or original interpretations on libertarian ideas or the circulation of libertarian ideas in Africa and between Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia will be valued. We invite everyone to send articles that address different branches of contemporary African thought that involve (or not) blackness, pan-Africanism and other transnational and cosmopolitan perspectives, African socialisms, African nationalisms, African philosophies, African Marxisms , African anarchisms, the forms and expressions of Afro-futurism and Afro-pessimism, the thoughts of African women, African queer movements, anti-colonial, post-colonial or decolonial theories in Africa, contemporary African epistemologies, Afro-diasporic thought, south-south relations, among other approaches, that contribute to advancing the debate on African libertarian thought in Brazil.