Method(e)s

African Review of Social Science Methodology. Revue africaine de methodologie des sciences sociales

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• Publisher: ibidem
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9783838275536
• Edition: 0

The bilingual, French-English journal Method(e)s, founded in 2015, is an African initiative with the objective to enlarge the methodological debates on the Global South. The desire for a strong understanding of methodology is to situate it above academic trends, thereby placing it in line with a universal history of the sciences. Just as calling dominant paradigms into question leaves room for creative opportunities, so does the comparison of theoretical approaches and technical models of data collection. Questions related to methods are not purely technical or merely philosophical reflections. The examination of the method used in scientific investigations necessarily leads us to question the validity and consequences of research results. From this point of view, the journal Method(e)s is not a forum for simple discussions on the mechanics of research but a tool to question social interests influencing academic research and giving it a political function. It is also intended to lead to a more critical look at the creation of theories dealing with the status of individuals and societies in Africa and the Global South. Mthod(e)s aims to bring into question, connect, and compare the theoretical, technical, and political foundations of the social sciences as applied to human societies. Each contribution is followed by a summary in the respectively other language. In order to ensure a broad intellectual reach, the editors reserve the right to include articles written in other languages. All the abstracts of the papers are also available in Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Verlag
• Editors' Introduction: Power over the Accumulation of Knowledge: Anthropology as Epistemological Territory
• Introduction des éditeurs: Le Pouvoir sur l’Accumulation du Savoir : le Terrain Anthropologique comme Scène Épistémologique
• Thematic Dossier / Dossier thématique
• On Decolonizing Knowledge, Pedagogy and Methodology in Africa
• Triangulation Technique: Combining Varied Methodological Approaches in Researching Local Level Adaptation Practices to Climate Change among the Haya people in Tanzania
• Shifting Boundaries: The Academic Journal as a Technology of Transformation in Africa
• Cultural Autonomy and Cultural Dimensions in Africa—as Evidenced from the Afrobarometer Survey
• The Mouse and the Mole. Two Experiences of Work in an Aid Agency
• Decolonising the Archaeology of Indigenous Artisanal Gold Mining in Eastern Zimbabwe
• Sources Radiophoniques et Historiographie au Nord-Cameroun
• Guest Paper: Alberto Guerreiro Ramos
• Short Introduction to Alberto Guerreiro Ramos
• La Réduction Sociologique
• Sociological Reduction
• L’Universel en « Manches de Chemises » : Comment Situer le « Guerrier » Ramos?
• Sociological Reduction and Autonomous Social Science
• Alberto Guerreiro Ramos: a Renaissance Sociologist
• Critical Essay, Ramos Revisited
• Critical Notes / Notes critiques
• Joel James Figarola, Sobre Muertos y Dioses, Gedisa, Mexico, 2016 (1st ed. 1989, Ediciones Caserón, Santiago de Cuba).
• With and Beyond Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Epistemic Responsibility, Ontological Epistemology of Transmutations and the Calling of Planetary Realisations
• Abstracts
• Résumés
• .تاصخلملا
• 摘要
• Resúmenes