A Scriptural Sculpture of Knowledges - Ntamack, Serge (Langaa RPCIG, 2013)
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 -(In) Security and Knowledge Creation; 1.1. Security and Insecurity; 1.2. Absence of Security within Africa; 1.3. The Logic of Securization and the Reproduction ofInsecurity; 1.4. Security -- Knowledge Nexus; Chapter 2 -Creativity and Recognition; 2.1. Linkage; 2.2. Art and Politics; 2.3. Artistic Creativity; 2.4. Political Creativity; 2.5. Defining and Identifying Some Types ofRecognition; 2.6. Inside Recognition: Black Self-Self-Relationship andWhite Other Mediation
2.7. Failure of Political Emancipation and SpeciousHumanityChapter 3 -Space and Postcoloniality; 3.1. Knowledge Space and Cognition; 3.2. Postcoloniality in the Classroom; 3.3. The Scope of IR Classroom; 3.4. Inside the Informal Economy of Whiteness; 3.5. The Search for Knowledge and the Quest forSurvival beyond IR Classroom; Chapter 4 -Science and Knowing; 4.1. Memory and Scientific Theory; 4.2. Cognition of the Physical Space of the Lab; 4.3. Circulation and Relevancy of Knowledge; Chapter 5 -Human and Environmental Cognition; 5.1. Thinking Globally, Thinking Through Numbers
5.2. The Glocality of Climate ChangeBibliography; Back cover
This book is a scriptural sculpture of how the physical dimensions of the earth ñbuilt and natural ñ and antecedents of history structure knowledges and the physical containers ñ human and non-human ñ that embody those knowledges. The book deals with universalisms grounded on African experiences and perspectives. A key theme is how (in)security relates to knowledge creation by drawing a parallel between the proliferation of violent conflict in Africa and the marginal position that the continent occupies in the modern formation of knowledge. Also explored is the concept of creativity in relatio