RT Article
T1 Using theory from the Global South: From social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 28
IS 3
SP 267
OP 286
A1 Dixon, Bill
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1898366578
AB Criminologists adopting a southern or decolonial perspective bemoan the failure to use theories from the Global South in making sense of crime and responses to it. This article takes the African philosophy and ethics of ubuntu and demonstrates how they might be used to ground a more relevant and effective approach to preventing urban violence in South Africa than northern ideas about social cohesion and collective efficacy current in dominant policy discourses. It argues that using indigenous bodies of knowledge like ubuntu can contribute not just to making good some of the damage done by colonial epistemicides but may also offer workable solutions to contemporary social problems in and beyond the Global South.
K1 Ubuntu
K1 southern theory
K1 South Africa
K1 Social Cohesion
K1 indigenous knowledge
DO 10.1177/13624806231221744