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Legacies of Engagement: Scholarship Informed by Political Commitment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Allen Isaacman
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Scholar-activists, by virtue of their critical engagement in the central issues of the day and their role in the production and dissemination of knowledge, have a unique opportunity to challenge the inherited orthodoxies in the academy and in the larger world in which we live. Within the field of African studies they have served as powerful critics and have broken new substantive, conceptual, methodological, and epistemological ground. To sustain this thesis, this essay explores three interrelated issues. First, it critically assesses the concept of value-free research—a notion which is commonly used to dismiss engaged scholarship as inherently flawed. Second, it documents how a number of African American scholars, passionately committed to social justice and to an end to racial oppression, produced pioneering work on Africa well before the field of African studies gained academic legitimacy in the post–World War II era. Finally, it highlights some of the critically important contributions that activist scholars have made to the study of Africa. The intellectual biographies of six prominent Africanists—Claude Aké, Basil Davidson, Francis Deng, Susan Geiger, Joseph Harris, and Walter Rodney—illuminate how political commitment can fuel theoretical and methodological innovation.

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Les chercheurs universitaires activistes, de par leur engagement critique dans les questions centrales actuelles et de par leur rôle dans la production et la dissémination du savoir, ont une occasion unique de remettre en question les orthodoxies dont nous avons hérité dans le milieu universitaire et dans le monde plus vaste dans lequel nous vivons. Dans le domaine des études africaines, ils ont servi de critiques puissants et ont produit des innovations substantielles au niveau conceptuel, méthodologique et épistémologique. Pour appuyer cette théorie, cet article examine trois questions intimement liées. Tout d'abord, nous procédons à une évaluation critique du concept de valeur—recherche libre—une notion couramment utilisée pour discréditer la recherche universitaire engagée en la considérant comme naturellement imparfaite. Ensuite, nous documentons la façon dont un nombre d'universitaires africains américains passionnément engagés dans la lutte pour la justice sociale et la fin de l'oppression raciale ont produit des travaux innovateurs sur l'Afrique bien avant que le domaine des études africaines n'obtienne sa légitimité universitaire dans la période qui a suivi la deuxième guerre mondiale. Enfin, nous soulignons une partie des contributions importantes que les universitaires et chercheurs activistes ont dédiées à l'étude de l'Afrique. La biographie intellectuelle de six importants africanistes—Claude Aké, Basil Davidson, Francis Deng, Susan Geiger, Joseph Harris et Walter Rodney—illustrent la façon dont l'engagement politique peut alimenter les innovations théoriques et méthodologiques.

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African Studies Review , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , April 2003 , pp. 1 - 41
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