Author: Kwesi Kwaa Prah (ed.)
ISBN No: 1-919799-01-X
Cost: 164.16
In all areas of South African life racism has taken its toll. Perhaps in no quarter has this pernicious history been more culturally devastating than in education, the production and reproduction of knowledge. Apartheid and racist philosophy usurped the status of science and knowledge production. Any knowledge which controverted the canons of apartheid was treated as state subversion. Racism affected not only the social, political, economic and other infrastructural bases of knowledge production in South Africa, it also affected the substance of what passed as knowledge itself. The papers captured within these covers take the work of exposing the sociological influence of apartheid on knowledge production further and deepen our understanding of the social context of knowledge production under apartheid. The papers thematically complement each other while representing fairly divergent theoretical formulations. All, however, expose the social perversions of apartheid, with regard to the way it affected the socio-cultural basis of knowledge production. In this sense they represent a collection of critiques developed from disciplinary academic positions regarding the sociology of knowledge creation and knowledge use.
ISBN No: 1-919799-01-X
Cost: 164.16
In all areas of South African life racism has taken its toll. Perhaps in no quarter has this pernicious history been more culturally devastating than in education, the production and reproduction of knowledge. Apartheid and racist philosophy usurped the status of science and knowledge production. Any knowledge which controverted the canons of apartheid was treated as state subversion. Racism affected not only the social, political, economic and other infrastructural bases of knowledge production in South Africa, it also affected the substance of what passed as knowledge itself. The papers captured within these covers take the work of exposing the sociological influence of apartheid on knowledge production further and deepen our understanding of the social context of knowledge production under apartheid. The papers thematically complement each other while representing fairly divergent theoretical formulations. All, however, expose the social perversions of apartheid, with regard to the way it affected the socio-cultural basis of knowledge production. In this sense they represent a collection of critiques developed from disciplinary academic positions regarding the sociology of knowledge creation and knowledge use.
