Towards a New Research Era. A Global Comparison of Research Distortions

0572109 - FLÚ 2024 RIV NL eng M - Monography Chapter
Kasanda, Albert
The Marginalization of African Epistemologies.
Towards a New Research Era. A Global Comparison of Research Distortions. Leiden: Brill, 2023 - (Hrubec, M.; Višňovský, E.), s. 187-198. ISBN 978-90-04-54493-2
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/15
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : epistemology * indigenous knowledge * African * philosophy
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004546035_014

This chapter relies on the world struggle against the Covid-19 pandemic to unmask conceptual and political aporias underlying the world ruling research system. The paper shows how far most of the measures recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to stop the Covid-19 pandemic were marked by a monocultural worldview, since they were dominated particularly by the Western epistemology. Such a predominance reveals both the want of balance and the discrimination concerning knowledge production in the world. Non-Western epistemologies and cultures, particularly the African world views and modes of production of knowledge have been deeply marginalised. The paper states that the reluctance of many African people at the campaign of vaccination against the Covid-19 pandemic was far from being an irrational and naïve behaviour, but a fair form of resistance towards the discrimination characterising the world ruling research and knowledge production system.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0347028