Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model
Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model
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10.1080/13696815.2014.894474
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2014-05-04
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Eze, Chielozona
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作者：
Eze, Chielozona
自冷战结束，特别是南非种族隔离制度废除以来，一直存在着关于非洲身份的持续辩论。研究非洲文化的学者们似乎达成了一个共识，即传统的非洲身份观念是与西方对立的，这是不合时宜的。那么，新非洲是由什么构成的呢？学者们提出了诸如污染、文化混杂、文化混杂、欢娱以及最近的非洲政治主义等概念，作为理解复杂的现代非洲身份的手段。本文对非洲政治主义进行了批判性的审视，并认为它是对污染、杂交、超文化和其他后现代主义术语的阐述，这些术语破坏了非洲文化和身份的本质主义和对立概念。我希望在这篇文章中达到两件事：将非洲政治主义置于世界主义的更大哲学传统中，并研究在对立模式之外扩展非洲身份概念的道德含义。
Since the end of the Cold War and, in particular, the demise of apartheid in South Africa, there has been a sustained debate about African identity. There seems to be a consensus among scholars of African culture that the conventional notion of African identity that was conceived in opposition to the West is anachronistic. But what then constitutes the new African? Scholars have suggested concepts such as contamination, cultural hybridity, cultural mutt, conviviality, and most recently Afropolitanism, as means to understand the complex modern African identity. This article takes a critical examination of Afropolitanism and argues that it is an enunciation of the ideas of contamination, hybridity, hyperculturality and other postmodernist terms that disrupt essentialist and oppositional notions of African culture and identity. I hope to achieve two things in this article: situate Afropolitanism within a larger philosophical tradition of cosmopolitanism and examine the moral implications of expanding the notion of African identity beyond the oppositional model.