Beyond the Two Cultures Paradigm: The Humanities in the CODESRIA Project

Abstract

The critiques of dominant approaches to research in both the social sciences and humanities on knowledge and objectivity seek to demonstrate that modern science paradigms and ‘regimes of truth’ are situated within a particular cultural, social system that needs to be challenged and “decolonized”. The research carried out in the Global North brings with it a particular set of values and conceptualizations of time, space, subjectivity, gender relations, knowledge production, storing (archives) and knowledge sharing.