Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book, Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Language, Literature and Religion, contributes to the polemical conversations about existing architectures of knowledge and research practices in postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa. It creates an academic platform for multi-interdisciplinary research that brings to the fore inspiring efforts to break away from long-standing disciplinary bordering thinking and practices in modern-day sub-Saharan Africa. This distinctive edited collection is a valuable resource for scholars, researchers and students of multi-interdisciplinary research across the globe. The volume also promotes wide-ranging research focused on how to address complexities which hamper the promise of multi-interdisciplinary research in contemporary sub-Saharan African contexts. It provides thought-provoking perspectives on academic conversations about the uniqueness of embracing multidisciplinary research. The traditional methods of interpretation are challenged by the radical emerging demand to shift from a mono-disciplinary thinking to a cross-disciplinary epistemic endeavour in order to successfully address unfolding problematic realities that demand the pursuit of novel heuristic terrains.

Calls for cross-disciplinary research methods and theories that will generate new perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa Interrogates traditional interpretive methods across the humanities and social sciences Covers important themes like indigeneity, epistemic issues, and de/colonial imperatives in research methodology

Autorentext

Tobias Marevesa is Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, UNISA, South Africa.

Ernest Jakaza is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication, Film and Theatre Arts at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe and Research Fellow at the University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa. .

Esther Mavengano is a lecturer who teaches Linguistics and Literature in the Department of English and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. She is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, College of Human Sciences, UNISA, South Africa, and also a von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at TU (Techische Universistat Dresden) Institute of English and American Studies, Department of English, Germany.

Inhalt

1. New directions in multidisciplinary knowledge production in sub-Saharan Africa: An introduction.- 2. From 'sitting on the fence' to rhizomatic thinking: An Appraisal of the heuristic 'lines of flight' in multi/inter disciplinary contemporary stylistics.- 3. Rupturing the traditional thought in search of novel heuristic voyages in New Testament studies. New reflections on Narratological methodology.- 4. Postcolonial African feminist research agenda: African women theologians' search for liberating paradigms in oral and written religious and cultural texts.- 5. Discipline, decolonisation and agency.- 6. (Re) thinking and (re)theorising 'multi' and its futures in academic discourse studies.- 7. 'Collective Intelligence' a precursor for multidisciplinary research in Africa: An Appreciative Inquiry Perspective.- 8. Multi-disciplinary Era and shifting methodological pathways in New Testament Studies: A Stylistic paradigm.- 9. Decentring research in African Universities.- 10. Get out, you seer! Go back to the Land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there (Amos 7:12). Deflecting Traditional Disciplinary Boundaries in Biblical Studies.- 11. Methodological and epistemological misconceptions about Mixed Methods Approach amongst university students.- 12. Packaging new wine into old wineskins: Possibilities and challenges of using virtual Ethnography in knowledge production in Zimbabwe.- 13. An interdisciplinary research approach: opportunities and challenges from a Zimbabwean perspective.- 14. Researching Religious Indigenous Knowledge in Zimbabwe: Methodological Issues for African Scholars.- 15. Old Methods and New Methods in sub-Saharan Africa: The Recap.