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Césaire’s Gift and the Decolonial Turn

January 2006
Radical Philosophy Review 9(2):111-138

DOI:10.5840/radphilrev20069217

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University of Connecticut

Aime Cesaire's Discourse on Colonialism is central to the project of decoloniality. It is a critical reflection on the European civilization project that gives expression to the disenchantment with European modernity that began to be felt in many places after the Second World War. This essay describes the overcoming of Cartesian reason through the "decolonial gift," which makes possible an opening toward transmodernity, an alternate response or pathway in view of the declining geo-political and epistemological significance of Europe and the United States.

DECOLONIALIDAD DE LA EDUCACIÓN Emergencia/urgencia de una pedagogía decolonial

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Explores the role of morality in social movements Discusses timely topics such as movements focusing on refugee solidarity, male privilege Provides methodologically and theoretically diverse contributions from multiple social science disciplines This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.

The Ethics of Radical Student Activism: Social Justice, Democracy and Engagement Across Difference

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This article focuses on student activism as an important site for the formulation and exploration of ethical dilemmas intrinsic to activist engagement across difference. In recent years, there has been a marked upsurge in student mobilization against inequality and social injustice within universities and in wider society. By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork material generated with left-wing student activists in New Zealand in 2012 and 2015, the article investigates how two different student activist networks, in their struggles for equality and justice, navigate ethical dilemmas around inclusion and exclusion and balance universal moral claims against a sensitivity to situated ethical complexities and locally embedded experiences and values. While sharing the goal of fighting inequality, the two networks differ in their emphasis on the creation of ‘dissensus’ and ‘safe spaces’ in their network, their university and in wider society. The article draws upon two interconnected strands of theories, namely, debates about deliberative democracy, including questions of universal accessibility and inclusion/exclusion, and theories around ethics as a question of living up to universal moral imperatives (deontology) or as embedded in everyday negotiations and cultivations of virtues (virtue ethics). Inspired by Mansbridge, it proposes that central to radical student activism as an ethical practice is the ability to act as a (subaltern) counter public that not only ‘nags’ or haunts dominant moralities from the margins but also allows for the cultivation of spaces and identities within the activist networks that can ‘nag’ or haunt the networks’ own moral frames and virtues and goad them into action and new democratic experiments.

Bringing Morality Back in: Three Interviews

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This chapter presents three interviews with three influential voices in the field of social movement and civil society studies, namely, those of Doug McAdam, Jeffrey Alexander, and Nina Eliasoph. They all share their perspectives on social movements’ role in society’s moral development, the role of morality internally in social movements, and the role of morality for social science as a practice. In addition, they each discuss the moral foundations and implications of three global contentious struggles: Doug McAdam discusses the background and implications of the 2021 riot at Capitol Hill as related to a global right-wing backlash protest cycle. Jeffrey Alexander discusses the cultural and moral significance of the #MeeToo movement and how it demonstrates the potentials of a global civil sphere. Finally, Nina Eliasoph discusses how the climate crisis presents itself as unimaginable in the sense that it will change everyone’s way of life so profoundly that we cannot imagine what the future may be like and suggests that prefigurative communities is one way activists can approach such a political issue.

The Moral Dimension of Countermovements: The Case of Anti-Feminism

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The aim of the chapter is to develop an analytical framework for studying the moral dimension of countermovements, which despite obvious significance for movement mobilization is rarely considered in countermovement theory. We argue that Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition can be used to develop an analytical framework that allows for grasping not only the moral dimension of struggles between social movements and countermovements but also moral divisions within countermovements. According to Honneth, social struggles stem from perceived misrecognition in relation to a set of moral meta-values that form the basis of legitimate claims in Western society: love, equality, and achievement. These meta-values can be understood differently in concrete areas of political struggle, and activists from different camps tend to make quite different interpretations. With this approach, it is possible to analyze countermovements’ moral claims in relation to social movements’ societal values and norms, and whether and how different strands within a countermovement make different types of moral claims. We demonstrate the usefulness of the analytical framework by applying it to the division between feminism and anti-feminism and the division between varieties of anti-feminism (the Christian Right movement, the mythopoetic men’s movement, the men’s rights movement, and the manosphere). What emerges is a picture of the interrelationship between feminism and anti-feminism that is more complex than the common designation of progressive versus reactionary movements. It is clear that the different strands of anti-feminism relate morally in partly different ways to feminism. They all react against what is understood as misrecognition of men as a result of feminism, but the types of moral claims and their specific emphasis on them vary.

For a Better Living-Together: Ongoing Meaningful Conversations at Play

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This chapter provides two contributions. On the one hand, it argues that morality is a mine field for sociologist as they lack the analytical tools to judge what is moral and what is not. Yet, historical sociology has shown that morality is bound to culture, and accordingly culture and cultural practices should gain the center stage of the sociological work on morality. Further on, we claim that social movements scholars can show that specific contentions directly relate to major political cleavages where major debates about moral issues are staged. Our second contribution offers an empirical example of such a research agenda. Using original survey and interview data on pro-migrant’s rights activists and environmentalists, we show that activists from these two groups form a common community—the moral voicing community. They share an understanding of the social problems they are committed for. Activists from both groups judge as immoral when specific social or cultural groups lack basic rights or suffer from environmental devastations and interpret these assessments through a prism of injustice. Finally, we show that these shared meanings on our living-together are continuously constructed through a specific relational mechanism. Indeed, ongoing and direct conversations are necessary to maintain those shared views and to ultimately sustain their activism.

Emotions, Morality, and Political Participation Behaviors in Online Activism

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The chapter analyzes emotional expressions and corresponding moral dimensions in messages posted on the Chinese social media Weibo, and the participation character of public responses online, modeling their emergence and trajectories, and explaining the conditions that are necessary for them to evolve. Through statistical and qualitative interpretative analyses of a sample of observed emotions of Weibo posts over the course of 26 days in the Quangang carbon nine leak incident, as online environmental activism in 2018, we reveal that (1) different emotions exert miscellaneous effects on participation behaviors; (2) the same emotion would have disparate effects on different types of participation behaviors; and (3) the occurrence of moral dimensions especially promoted the generation and expression of activists’ emotions, which were magnified and strengthened through their spread on Weibo. Emotional expressions and their moral dynamics have shaped, but also been shaped by, the nature of the event and specific sociopolitical context and experience. The implications advance the understudied complexity between emotions, morality, and political participation behaviors in online activism in the authoritarian context.

Values, Activism and Changing Attitudes: Individual-Level Moral Development in Social Movement Contexts

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Lately, several studies have added crucial knowledge to our understanding of social movement participation by demonstrating its processual nature and how it relates to individual-level movement outcomes. Still, moral factors like values remain understudied. This paper develops a model of relationships between two types of value predispositions—self-transcendence and conformity—and differential participation in humanitarian activities, political protest and civil disobedience and their consequences for attitudinal changes of loss of institutional trust and an altered view of refugee policies. We use cross-sectional survey data from the mobilisation of the Danish refugee solidarity movement, which was revitalised in response to the 2015 refugee crisis. The main finding is that values, in accordance with our theoretical expectations, mainly influence attitudinal outcomes mediated by contexts of different kinds of movement activities. Conformity relates to participation in non-contentious humanitarian support activities that do not relate to any attitudinal outcomes. The non-conform and self-transcendent respondents participate to a higher degree in contentious political protest and civil disobedience, which relates to a loss of trust in the political institutions. The results suggest that heterogeneity of values and contexts of activism within a movement have implications for social movements’ role in the struggles for society’s fundamental morality, individual-level biographical outcomes of activism and movements’ internal processes related to collective identity.

Paradigm Lost? Three Dimensions of Morality and Social Movements

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In this chapter, focusing on the position of the concept of morality, we briefly review the evolution of the field of social movements from the first formulations of the phenomena of protest, mass, and collective action in classical sociology, through the formation of social movement studies as proper field of research in the 1970s, to its contemporary state. We argue that while morality was central to the classical tradition’s understanding of movements, it lost prominence when the field was established, and still today, morality does not receive much attention. There are, of course, notable exceptions like the work of Jeffrey Alexander, Hans Joas, and the new social movement tradition in Europe. Relatively recently, morality has received increasing attention from scholars studying movements from the perspective of culture. We discuss the role of morality in three of the most prominent theories in this tradition, namely, collective identity, frame alignment, and emotion theory. We argue that they all present promising avenues for developing our understanding of morality and movements while we also point to limitations and inadequacies in each theory or the way they have been applied. We then turn to the constructive work of reorganizing the concept of morality’s relationship with civic action and social movement by developing three dimensions of morality that we argue which are of particular relevance to social movements: selves in interaction , rationalization and justification , and culture and tradition . We trace each dimension from its origin in moral philosophy through its formulation in classical sociology and finally into contemporary theories of civic action. Before closing, we reflect on how the different dimensions intersect and can be applied to the analysis of contemporary empirical cases of social movements and political protest.

Paradigm Revived? Concluding Sketches of an Emerging Research Agenda

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The concluding chapter of the book points to research agendas that have emerged from the contributions to the volume on movements and morality. It does not sum up each contribution, since an introduction to concepts, methods, and applications can be found in the introductory Chap. 1 . Instead, the chapter identifies six lacunae in social movement studies that have become apparent in the pages of the book. A first lacuna is related to the bias in focus on left-wing groups, a second on the causal effects of morality, a third foundational lacuna pertains to the relationship between social science and moral philosophy, a fourth to how we perceive of morality and time, a fifth to the global diffusion of moral claims, and finally a sixth lacuna relates to reflections on the dilemma of universal moral claims versus particular identities and situations.

Social Movements Prefiguring Political Theory

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Adding to the growing literature on social movements as knowledge and theory creators, this chapter wants more social movement research to focus on the content of the political theories created by social movements , as an outcome of their morality. This chapter argues that prefigurative social movements create political theory through the interplay of their internal and external communication, their organization, and in their discussions of how and why to change the world: They are prefiguring political theory through their cognitive praxis. The chapter demonstrates how the literature on prefigurative social movements and Ron Jamison and Andrew Eyerman’s concept of cognitive praxis, combined with a decolonial feminist approach to knowledge and theory, provides space for the political theory of social movements within social movement literature. This theory is inherently political as it is aimed to be a (temporary) guide toward the kind of world the movements want to see and argues why the world should look like that. The chapter briefly outlines how a Cartesian approach to science prevents us from viewing theory based on lived experience as theory, even though all theory is based on lived experience, and thereby explains why we have not taken the knowledge and theory created by social movements seriously for so long. To recognize social movements as political actors, we need to engage with the concepts, policy proposals, critiques, or new institutions that they are creating, and not only the mechanics around creating them. Consequently, we need to recognize social movements as the authors of the knowledge and theory they create and not take credit for “discovering” it. Lastly, from a decolonial approach, we should recognize that social movement research is relational and that the research process should involve the social movements themselves to make sure they also benefit from it, and view them as colleagues who are sharing their knowledge with us. Moving away from the more Cartesian view of science requires a decolonization of the entire research process, and in particular rethinking what this means in terms of authorship, ownership, and credit.

The Dark Side of Laughter: Humour as a Tool for Othering in the Memes of Czech Far-Right Organization Angry Mothers

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Far-right grassroot organizations were early adopters of the internet and social media and have been using it to spread their ideologies, mobilize people and network since the 1990s. With the increased usage of social media, their communication style has naturally changed. Due to the interactive nature of social media, the far-right groups started to communicate in a savvy style based on meme and DIY aesthetics. This style allows these groups to blurry the line between serious and irony (Shifman, L., Memes in Digital Culture . Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2014) but also between facts and misinformation (Klein, O., The Open Journal of Sociopolitical Studies 154–179, 2020). There is a burgeoning body of literature investigating the way and for what purposes such organizations use the internet in which the researchers look particularly on memes (Klein, O., The Open Journal of Sociopolitical Studies 154–179, 2020) but also humour (Billig, M., Comic racism and violence. In S. Lockyer, & M. Pickering (Eds.), Beyond a joke. The limits of humor (pp. 25–44). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005a; Billig, M., Laughter and ridicule. Towards a social critique of humor. London: SAGE Publications, 2005b). However, not many studies explored the link between humour and morality. The aim of this exploratory study, in which humour is viewed as a means of claims making and negotiation of political views, is to deepen the knowledge of how humour in memes produced and reproduced by far-right organizations can serve as a tool for constructing a moral order. To do so, I analysed memes used on the far-right Facebook page run by Czech organization Angry Mothers which engage in anti-Islam and anti-gender activism. Based on Michael Billig’s (2005) distinction between rebellious and disciplinary humour, I argue that the organization used rebellious humour to present themselves as an alternative to mainstream media and resistance to the alleged dictatorship of liberal elites and disciplinary humour to put minorities (both sexual and ethnic) “in their place”.

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This chapter investigates the role of axiological drivers in solidarity activism with refugees. It examines how universal value orientations denote normative and relational orientations of care and posits that refugee solidarity activism is driven by the activists’ universal caring orientations to all vulnerable groups. Overall, the chapter illustrates how universal value orientations and moral commitments shape and orient political activism with refugees based on common ideational solidarity projects. These conclusions are based on the analysis of data from a cross-national EU survey conducted in 8-EU countries between 2016 and 2017. Findings substantiate that axiological drivers, namely, universal value orientations and moral commitments, increase the predicted probability for engagement in refugee solidarity activism. Lastly, this chapter supports that in addition to attitudinal affinity and organisational embeddedness, refugee solidarity activism is a product of axiological drivers.

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The chapter maps out the elite of the early Danish temperance movement and shows how distinct moral elites within the movement interpreted the cause according to their respective value frames while integrating the emerging disease frame of alcoholism. Theoretically, it argues for introducing the thus far estranged perspectives of elite studies and framing approaches to each other. The concept of moral elite is consequently introduced and defined as an elite that is rich in the resources on which moral authority is built, here limited to educational resources, organizational resources, and publications. The chapter applies a mixed methods design. First, social network analysis (SNA) is applied to a unique dataset comprising biographical information on 28 temperance leaders found in the Danish Who’s Who. The analysis reveals three distinct clusters within the temperance elite. Analyzing texts by the most prolific authors shows that each of the three clusters has a distinct profile: an elite dominated by medical doctors and theologians who articulate a traditional value frame according to which medical doctors and pastors carry a responsibility for the community – a responsibility that is expanded through philanthropy and specialized institutions; a revivalist elite of theologians and laymen who pursue a revivalist Holiness and civil society frame emphasizing faith’s healing abilities and the importance of organizing beyond the national church; and an organic elite that represented small farmers and workers and pushed an Enlightenment frame of direct democracy, rule of law, and education. The second part of the analysis shows how each elite cluster integrated the “alcoholism as a disease” belief frame in their value frames: traditional elites as a cause for institutionalization, revivalist elites as a reason to bolster the resilience in the population through faith, and the organic elite as a reason to promote self-care and education. In the final sections of the chapter, I tease out how the moral elite perspective may have implications for social movement research, especially in terms of holding movement elites accountable.

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Más información en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ ARTÍCULOS UTOPÍA Y PRAXIS LATINOAMERICANA. AÑO: 2 7 , n. o 98, 2022, e 66 1 5 7 32 REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE FILOSOFÍA Y TEORÍA SOCIAL CESA-FCES-UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA. MARACAIBO-VENEZUELA Este trabajo está depositado en Zenodo: DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6615732 RESUMEN Urge configurar nuevos conocimientos sustentados en el saber del Otro, considerado inferior, y no sólo en la episteme del Logo moderno/colonial, considerado superior. Sugiero decolonizar las ciencias sociales mediante la Altersofía y el Hacer Decolonial. Asumo la Altersofía como una forma "otra" de conocer, para el desprendimiento de la epistemología moderna/colonial. Analizo el para qué de una metodología "otra". Caracterizo el hacer decolonial como proceso decolonizante, para desobedecer a la metodología de investigación USA-eurocéntrica, mediante acciones y huellas: contemplar comunal, conversar alterativo y reflexionar configurativo, que caracterizan la vocación decolonial. ABSTRACT It is urgent to configure new knowledge based on the knowledge of the Other, considered inferior, and not only in the episteme of the modern/colonial Logo, considered superior. I suggest decolonizing the social sciences through Alterphysy and Decolonial Doing. I take Alterphysy as an "other" way of knowing, for the detachment of modern/colonial epistemology. I analyze for what one "other" methodology. I characterize decolonial doing as a decolonizing process, to disobey the USA-Eurocentric research methodology, through actions and traces: communal contemplation, alterative conversation and configurational reflection, which characterize the decolonial vocation.

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Resumen En este artículo problematizamos y cuestionamos la epistemología por enarbolar un conocimiento verdadero universal (episteme) centrado en el "investigador", privilegiando la relación sujeto-objeto, desconociendo el saber del "investigado". Proponemos configurar una filosofía que se concentra en la relación sujeto-sujeto, es decir, entre un yo con otro yo, reconocer y visibilizar el saber del otro colonizado y subalternizado, sus conocimientos situados (sofías), emergiendo así la altersofía como una epistemología 1 Resultado del proyecto Escenarios formativos mediadores de la biopraxis de niños y niñas en contexto de pobreza, financiado por la Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia. Grupo GIEDU: Grupo de Investigación en Infancia y Educación.

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Este trabajo está depositado en Zenodo: DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3338554 RESUMEN Se problematiza y cuestiona la epistemología por enarbolar un conocimiento verdadero universal (episteme) centrado en el "investigador", privilegiando la relación sujeto-objeto, desconociendo el saber del "investigado". Se propone configurar una filosofía que se concentra en la relación sujeto-sujeto, es decir, entre un yo con otro yo, reconocer y visibilizar el saber del otro colonizado y subalternizado, sus conocimientos situados (sofías), emergiendo así la altersofía como una epistemología "otra", una forma "otra" de conocer y amar. Caracterizamos la altersofía como sustrato del hacer decolonial, que se despliega mediante sus acciones/huellas constitutivas: contemplar comunal, conversar alterativo y reflexionar configurativo, las cuales caracterizan la vocación decolonial, que permite el desprendimiento de la metodología de investigación. Palabras clave: ciencias sociales; epistemología; filosofía; conocimientos situados; altersofía; hacer decolonial; metodología de investigación. ABSTRACT Be problematized and questioned the epistemology by fly a universal true knowledge (episteme) focused on the "investigator", favoring the subject-object relationship, unaware of the knowledge of the "investigated". Intends to set up a philosophy that focuses on the subject relationship, i.e. between a me with another me recognize and make visible the knowledge of the other colonized and subalternizado, their situated knowledge (sophies), thus emerging othersophy as one epistemology "other", one way to "other" to know and love. We characterized the othersophy as a substrate decolonial do, which unfolds through its constituent actions/footprints: see communal, talking alterative and reflect configurative, which characterized the vocation decolonial, allowing the detachment of the research methodology.

Pensamiento decolonial y configuración de competencias decoloniales 1

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This volume brings together eleven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The contributions fall under three areas of linguistics: Phonology and phonetics; syntax and semantics; and language acquisition, language contact, and diglossia. They reflect some various perspectives and emphases. Including data from North African, Levantine, and Gulf varieties, Standard Arabic, as well as Arabic varieties spoken in diaspora, these articles address issues that range from sibilant merging, raising, lexicalization, agreement, to diglossia, dialect contact, and language acquisition in heritage speakers. The book is valuable reading for linguists in general and for those working on descriptive and theoretical aspects of Arabic linguistics in particular.

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Themba Shingange

Missionary encounters were often characterised by shifting and multilinear intents within the broader global spaces. In Africa, the 19th-century missionary encounter happened concomitantly within the nexus of Christianisation, colonisation, and civilisation agendas. Succinctly put, missionaries sent by the London Missionary Society who came to South Africa and had encounters with the Batswana people were equally agents of cultural transfer and imperialism that were linked to Christianisation, colonisation, and civilisation processes. Thus, the missionary mandate was entrenched in evangelisation that constructed and portrayed to Africans the imagery of a monotheistic and monopolistic God, and in the deformation and classification of African cultural practices and religions as heathen, barbaric, and uncivilised. Consequently, the dividing line between Christianisation, colonisation, and civilisation was blurred. This study used desk research to examine the nexus of missionary encounters among the Batswana in South Africa. The findings were that the understanding of Christianity and the imagery of God depicted by the missionaries still has a grip on contemporary Africa. Therefore, there is a dire need to problematise the narrative because it has continued the colonial aspirations of the past. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The study used intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches by engaging the intersectional and decolonial theories together with insights from theology and missiology. This was done to delineate the problem and to argue for the need to decolonise the current narrative. This can, perhaps, transform the status quo and provide opportunities for Africans to define their beings and understanding of God in their terms.

Introduction: Decolonizing Education as Site of Possibilities and Contestations

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Jun 2024

We find ourselves in a world where the very notion of decolonization is being challenged and weaponized by those invested in maintaining colonial structures and practices. We must push back at this. In this volume, we think about the possibilities of decolonizing knowledge. Mignolo and Walsh (On decoloniality: Concepts, analytics, praxis. Duke University Press, 2018) urge us to ask, “What does it mean to decolonize? Who is doing it, where, why, and how?” (p. 108). Decolonizing education centers knowledge and perspectives of those who have been rendered to the margins by the perpetuation of colonialism. In this volume, we create space across disciplinary, institutional, national, and international contexts that draw on different kinds of knowledges. The works covered by authors from various geographies in this volume reveal possibilities for a decolonial approach in different contexts that can further the cause of a more just education where subaltern voices and those on the margins can be centered. It is an encouragement and invitation for scholars across the globe and disciplines collaborate not only in theorizing, but praxis.

Reimagining Education Futurities Through Decolonial Lens

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Jun 2024

Ann E. Lopez

In this chapter, I reflect on possibilities to reimagine education futurities through decolonizing lens. I engage with the complexities and challenges of decolonization by considering multiple interpretations and entry points into decolonial theorizing and practice. I do not offer prescriptions, but instead offer wonderings about possibilities focusing on community, curriculum and pedagogy, and positionality. I suggest an approach grounded in the notion of decolonial praxis of love, recognizing how we are implicated, and a commitment to building solidarity across communities and contexts, recognizing that the work is ongoing, complex, and daunting.

Teachers creating anti-colonial futures: Exploring curriculum conversations with teachers through autobiographical reflection

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Apr 2024

Carmel Roofe

Teachers’ understanding of their personal histories is beneficial to their understanding and conceptualisation of their roles as teacher professionals. Insights from such understanding in post-colonial societies help to shape teachers’ consciousness about how they can run their own course (curriculum) to create liberating experiences for themselves and those they teach. This paper draws on the autobiographical method of currere to deconstruct stories of four in-service teachers about their teaching and learning experiences as students in Jamaican classrooms and how these experiences intertwine with their current professional practice. Findings derived from the teachers’ written reflections revealed that perceptions about types of schools and the associated consequences remain the largest area of complexity and representation of coloniality for teachers. Linked to this is the skills teachers themselves demonstrate and the positive and negative emotions those skills evoke for students. The teachers also expressed their responsibility towards advocating for self and their students as opportunities to create change and resist coloniality. The paper therefore offers recommendations for teachers and teachers of teachers (teacher educators) on how to build anti-colonial futures through curriculum conversations with their students.

Contributions to inclusive and impactful development and psychopathology science: interrogating ecology-linked vulnerability and resilience opportunities

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DEV PSYCHOPATHOL

Margaret Beale Spencer

Since its launch in a 1984 Special Issue of Child Development, significant contributions and insights have followed that have expanded our understanding of psychopathology and normal human growth and development. Despite these efforts, there are persistent and under-analyzed skewed patterns of vulnerability across and within groups. The persistence of a motivated forgetfulness to acknowledge citizens’ uneven access to resources and supports, or as stated elsewhere, “inequality presence denial,” is, at minimum, a policy, social and health practice problem. This article will examine some of these issues from the standpoint of a universal human vulnerability perspective. It also investigates sources of resistance to acknowledging and responding to the scholarship production problem of uneven representations of basic human development research versus psychopathology preoccupations by race. Collectively, findings suggest interesting “patchwork” patterns of particular cultural repertoires as ordinary social and scholarly traditions.

Decolonising Memory Studies: Remembering from Africa

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Dec 2023

Lungile Tshuma

For many years, collective memory has been appropriated and used by social actors for hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces. However, the dominant understanding of ‘memory work’ has largely been based on Eurocentric perspectives of knowledge, while excluding and, arguably, erasing indigenous epistemologies as ‘knowledge on the other side of the line’. This chapter argues that communities in the Global South have pedagogical spaces whose various ontologies are being suppressed, leading to calls for epistemic justice. In structuring remembering and forgetting, ubuntu, idioms and proverbs, for example, are used by communities in the Global South to structure power relations. This chapter theorises ubuntu as an African concept that fosters remembering and forgetting. Ubuntu structures the manner in which the past, future and present are represented. Ubuntu conceives knowledge, that is, it influences what can be said, where and how it can be said, and by whom. In this milieu, this chapter will deconstruct the Eurocentric perspectives on memory, and explore various ontological and epistemological ways of understanding and studying memory in the Global South. Hence, this study forms part of ‘epistemic disobedience’ where it challenges the status quo in memory studies.

Hegemony and Decolonising Research Praxis: A Researcher’s Journey in the Peripheries of Pakistan

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Abida Bano

Indigenous Psychologies: Resources for Future Histories

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Feb 2022

An Analytical Lens Resting on a Tripod: De-Westernising, Internationalising, and Decolonising International Communication

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Nov 2023

Diliza L Madikiza

Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities

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This article explores initiatives to decolonise the curriculum via two specific disciplines, namely Economics and Politics, both of which have tended to marginalise the study of race, empire, and colonialism and whose canonical thinkers are overwhelming white. By providing the first comparative analysis of decolonising initiatives in these disciplines, this article: investigates the extent to which Economics and Politics curricula in UK universities have been ‘decolonised’; explores the factors which affect support for or resistance to decolonisation; and analyses the extent to which these factors share common roots in both disciplines. Our comparative method allows us to shed light on drivers of resistance that affect all disciplines alike and those that are rooted within specific disciplines. Using an audit of UK undergraduate courses and a survey of academics, we show that neither Politics nor Economics can plausibly claim to have made much progress in decolonising curricula. However, more progress has been made in Politics, and Politics staff are more informed about and less hostile to decolonising initiatives than Economics staff. We locate one of the reasons for this difference in the epistemological and ideological idiosyncrasies of the dominant neoclassical paradigm in Economics. We therefore argue that initiatives to decolonise the curriculum must take into account potential discipline-specific obstacles.

Advancing Afrikan Sustainable Design

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In a monoculture-dominated world, this chapter explores what an endogenously inspired conception of Afrikan sustainable design might be. The authors initially contextualise the incompatibility of growth-based human development versus the limited resources of a finite planet. This is followed by a brief exploration of postwar development and its recent refinement into the Sustainable Development Goals. These concepts are compared to the similar parallel emergence of the discipline of industrial design and its refinement towards more sustainable approaches to design. This leads to an exploration of what an Afrikan conception of sustainability might be, with a particular focus on the indigenous Afrikan philosophy of Ubuntu-the inseparable relationship between people and the natural environment. With a decolonial lens, product design examples from the Afrikan context are used as exemplars of how indigenous approaches to knowledge creation, situated within an Ubuntu framing, could translate into more appropriate Afrikan design practice and education.

Jornalismo ambiental e decolonialidade: a ênfase em ouvir outras vozes

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A ampliação da discussão decolonial nos estudos do Jornalismo evidencia uma série de pressupostos do jornalismo ambiental, ainda que nem sempre nomeado dessa forma. Nosso objetivo neste texto é debater a relevância da pluralidade de vozes, rompendo com a perspectiva de que as fontes oficiais teriam mais valor do que aquelas ditas cidadãs. O jornalismo comprometido com o meio ambiente assume como imprescindível que os apagamentos historicamente legitimados pelo jornalismo hegemônico sejam revistos. A partir de pesquisas que observaram quais eram as vozes acionadas no jornalismo que cobre o meio ambiente, refletimos sobre pontos comuns entre esta especialidade e o olhar decolonial.

Access to justice in South Africa

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16 Decolonizar las Ciencias de la Educación, Altersofía y Pedagogía

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Alexander Ortiz Ocaña

Hacia una pedagogía decolonial

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Conedo; Hacia una pedagogía decolonial en/desde el sur global; Revista nuestrAmérica; ISSN 0719-3092; Vol. 6; n° 12; julio-diciembre 2018── 195 contacto@revistanuestramerica.cl Hacia una pedagogía decolonial en/desde el sur global Towards a decolonial pedagogy in/from the global South Rumo a uma pedagogia decolonial no/do sul global Alexander Ortiz Ocaña Doctor en Ciencias Pedagógicas Doctor Honoris Causa en Iberoamérica, Consejo Iberoamericano en Honor a la Calidad Educativa, Lima. Perú Resumen: Las relaciones interpersonales que se desarrollan en el espacio áulico entre profesores y estudiantes, en las cuales los contenidos curriculares tienen una importancia extraordinaria. Es preciso que los profesores reconozcamos la pluralidad y diversidad de formas de vivir, estar, ser, pensar de nuestros estudiantes, para no incurrir en estas acciones excluyentes en las que subyace la colonialidad en alguna de sus dimensiones. Decolonizar la educación significa, entre otros argumentos, reconocer que los indígenas, campesinos, afros o sordos, vienen a la universidad no solo a aprender y transformarse sino también a enseñar. La decolonialidad de la educación se logra en la misma medida en que se reconoce la validez e importancia de los saberes "otros" no oficializados por la matriz colonial. Finalmente, si nosotros queremos desplegar biopraxis pedagógicas decoloniales, debemos hacerlo con la intencionalidad de

Pedagogía decolonial: hacia la configuración de biopraxis pedagógicas decolonizantes 1

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Threading a decolonial feminist response to COVID-19: One community psychologist's reflection on the assemblages of violence

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Apr 2023
AM J COMMUN PSYCHOL

Jesica Siham Fernandez

To challenge and interrogate the assemblages of violence produced by racial capitalism, and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, community psychologists must engage in a transdisciplinary critical ethically reflexive practice. In this reflexive essay, or first-person account, I offer a decolonial feminist response to COVID-19 that draws strength from the writings of three women of Color decolonial and postcolonial feminist thinkers: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Sylvia Wynter, and Arundhati Roy. Through their writings I share my reflections on the sociopolitical moment associated with COVID-19. Of importance, I argue in support of engaging a decolonial feminist standpoint to understand the inequitable and dehumanizing conditions under COVID-19, and the possibilities for transformative justice. I offer this reflexive essay with the intention of summoning community psychology and community psychologists to look toward transdisciplinarity, such as that which characterizes a decolonial standpoint and feminist epistemologies. Writings oriented toward imagination, relationality, and borderland ways of thinking that are outside, in-between or within, the self and the collective "we" can offer valuable guidance. The invitation toward a transdisciplinary critical ethically reflexive practice calls us to bear witness to movements for social justice; to leverage our personal, professional and institutional resources to support communities in struggle. A decolonial feminist standpoint guided by the words of Anzaldúa, Wynter, and Roy can cultivate liberatory conditions that can materialize as racial freedom, community wellbeing, and societal thriving.

Critical Ecofeminism: A Feminist Environmental Research Network (FERN) for Collaborative and Relational Praxis

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Mar 2023

Indigenous Psychologies: Resources for Future Histories

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The number and variety of Indigenous psychologies has grown immensely in the 75 years since the end of World War II. To date, there has been a dearth of histories of these psychologies, though brief descriptive historical introductions in articles are common. The approach of this chapter is to provide a critical rationale for understanding the challenges that face Indigenous psychologies, as well as the challenge of writing critical histories. Just as there are a multiplicity of Indigenous psychologies and many possible histories, so there are multiple rationales for writing histories of Indigenous psychologies. The chapter provides one intellectual and critical rationale based in decolonization approaches and decolonial theory that will be of use for future historians. The chapter also provides a substantial list of published resources to aid the development of future histories.

Decolonisation and anti‐racism: Challenges and opportunities for (teacher) education

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Lesley Le Grange

In the past two decades, we have seen a renewed interest in decolonisation. A proliferation of literature produced on the topic, the establishment of journals on decolonisation, student protests such as the #RhodesMustFall campaign at universities in South Africa and Oxford University in Britain, French President Emmanuel Macron's call for the repatriation of African heritage from European museums, the appointment of a Deputy Minister of Decolonisation in Bolivia, bear testimony to a heightened consciousness on the topic. Moreover, we are witnessing the internationalisation of Indigenous knowledge as colonised peoples across the globe use the spaces that globalisation affords to build solidarities in order to resist the homogenising and normalising effects of globalisation and to decentre western epistemologies. In this article, which contributes to the Special Issue on Decolonial and Anti‐racist Perceptions in Teacher Training and Education Curricula, I do three things: discuss the concept of decolonisation including its meanings produced in different geographies, discuss the connection between decolonisation and anti‐racism, present challenges and opportunities for decolonising (teacher) education programmes through the concepts of currere, complicated conversation and land education. I conclude that decolonisation is not an easy task in the neoliberal university and other institutions offering initial teacher training/education. However, there always exists opportunities for invigorating decolonial desires in such teaching/learning spaces.

Philosophy 9/11: Thinking about the War on Terrorism

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Jan 2005

Timothy Shanahan

The Darker Side of the Renaissance

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Jan 2009

Walter Mignolo

The Darker Side of the Renaissance focuses on coloniality rather than on Europe's witch and alchemist hunt. Today I would dare to say also that this expression refers us to the historical foundation of coloniality. At the same time, coloniality statement is called into question, as well as the distinction between the known object and the knowing subject, an assumption on which the Eurocentric project of "modernity" and "modernization" disciplines lie. The preface marks the enunciation with which the statement is stated. That is, it rejects the "point zero epistemology" denounced by Santiago Castro-Gómez. This means the reader should be always pay attention to the ennunciation s/he states him/herself, to the hand drawing the hand. Those of us dwelling at Abya-Yala/America are surrounded by the historical foundation of modernity/coloniality, we are a living part of that process, which only "scientific" alignment can make us believe we are looking at something (e.g., colonization) touching what we are today.

Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account

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Jan 2006

Tony Smith

Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought

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Jan 2004

Alys Eve Weinbaum

Oppression and Responsibility: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Practices and Moral Theory

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Nov 2015

PEG O’CONNOR

The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work

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Apr 2006

REY CHOW

Transcritique: On Kant and Marx

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Apr 2003

Kojin Karatani

Kojin Karatani's Transcritique introduces a startlingly new dimension to Immanuel Kant's transcendental critique by using Kant to read Karl Marx and Marx to read Kant. In a direct challenge to standard academic approaches to both thinkers, Karatani's transcritical readings discover the ethical roots of socialism in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and a Kantian critique of money in Marx's Capital. Karatani reads Kant as a philosopher who sought to wrest metaphysics from the discredited realm of theoretical dogma in order to restore it to its proper place in the sphere of ethics and praxis. With this as his own critical model, he then presents a reading of Marx that attempts to liberate Marxism from longstanding Marxist and socialist presuppositions in order to locate a solid theoretical basis for a positive activism capable of gradually superseding the trinity of Capital-Nation-State.

Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege

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Jan 2006

Shannon Sullivan

Revealing Whiteness explores how white privilege operates as an unseen, invisible, and unquestioned norm in society today. In this book, which combines elements of personal narrative with theoretical foundations, Shannon Sullivan interrogates her own whiteness and how being white has affected her. By looking closely at the subtleties of white domination, she issues a call for other white people to own up to their unspoken privilege and confront environments that condone or perpetuate it. She examines the importance of unconscious habit in maintaining whiteness' control over social conditions. She calls into question and attempts to theorize changing these habits as a way forward. Sullivan’s theorizing about race and privilege draws on American pragmatism, psychology, race theory, and feminist thought. It articulates a way to live beyond the barriers that white privilege has created.

Arquitectónica de la ética de la liberación en la edad de la globalización y la exclusión

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Jan 1998

Enrique Dussel

Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times

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Jan 2006

Lewis R. Gordon

Reconciliation as a Contested Future: Decolonization as Project or Beyond the Paradigm of War

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Jan 2013

Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Culture et colonisation

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Dec 1956

Aimé Césaire

Decolonization and the New Identitarian Logics After September 11

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Jan 2005

Nelson Maldonado-Torres

This essay examines the relationship between Americanism, the distinctive ideology of the U.S. American empire, and the predominant discourse in the age of its war on terror, and Eurocentrism, its competing ideology but nonetheless also its ally in defending the West against different "barbarian" threats. It characterizes them as two different forms of hegemonic identity politics: one based in the idea of the particularity of culture, and the other on the idea of universality. A different form of discourse based on the struggles of the traditional targets of those two ideologies is proposed here as an alternative basis for a different historical project centered on the idea of decolonization.

Racial Oppression In America

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Mar 1974

Discourse on Colonialism

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Jan 1972

Aimé Césaire

The Souls of Black Folk

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Race and Class in the Southwest

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Jan 1979

Mario Barrera

Cultural studies, complexity studies and the transformation of the structures of knowledge

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Mar 2007
Int J Cult Stud

Richard E. Lee

The structures of knowledge of the modern world, those patterns of what can and cannot be thought that determine what actions can and cannot be deemed feasible in the material world, are undergoing a transformation. Two knowledge movements, cultural studies with roots in the humanities and complexity studies in the sciences have challenged the separation of the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities by upsetting the epistemological underpinnings of the mutually exclusive epistemologies based on the separation of truth and values in knowledge production. For the future, social analysts may shift from fabricating and verifying theories to imagining and evaluating the multiple possible con-sequences of diverse interpretative accounts of human reality and the actions they entail.

Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practising Soidarity

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Jan 2003

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

The abyss of representation: Marxism and the postmodern sublime

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George Hartley

Forms in the Abyss: A Philosophical Bridge Between Sartre and Derrida

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Steve Martinot

A groundbreaking effort to find the "common language" between two of the most important philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century, Forms in the Abyss promises to be one of the most significant contribution to our critical understanding of western thought in recent memory.

Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime

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Jan 2006

Dylan Rodríguez

More than two million people are currently imprisoned in the United States, and the nationâs incarceration rate is now the highest in the world. The dramatic rise and consolidation of Americaâs prison system has devastated lives and communities. But it has also transformed prisons into primary sites of radical political discourse and resistance as they have become home to a growing number of writers, activists, poets, educators, and other intellectuals who offer radical critiques of American society both within and beyond the prison walls. In Forced Passages, Dylan RodrÃguez argues that the cultural production of such imprisoned intellectuals as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Leonard Peltier, George Jackson, JosÃ© Solis Jordan, Ramsey Muniz, Viet Mike Ngo, and Marilyn Buck should be understood as a social and intellectual movement in and of itself, unique in context and substance. RodrÃguez engages with a wide range of texts, including correspondence, memoirs, essays, poetry, communiquÃ©s, visual art, and legal writing, drawing on published works by widely recognized figures and by individuals outside the publicâs field of political vision or concern. Throughout, RodrÃguez focuses on the conditions under which imprisoned intellectuals live and work, and he explores how incarceration shapes the ways in which insurgent knowledge is created, disseminated, and received. More than a series of close readings of prison literature, Forced Passages identifies and traces the discrete lineage of radical prison thought since the 1970s, one formed by the logic of state violence and by the endemic racism of the criminal justice system. Dylan RodrÃguez is assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside.

The Nick of Time : Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely / E. Grosz.

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Jan 2004

Elizabeth Grosz

In this pathbreaking philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse. Arguing that theories of temporality have significant and underappreciated relevance to the social dimensions of science and the political dimensions of struggle, Grosz engages key theoretical concerns related to the reality of time. She explores the effect of time on the organization of matter and on the emergence and development of biological life. Considering how the relentless forward movement of time might be conceived in political and social terms, she begins to formulate a model of time that incorporates the future and its capacity to supersede and transform the past and present. Grosz develops her argument by juxtaposing the work of three major figures in Western thought: Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Henri Bergson. She reveals that in theorizing time as an active, positive phenomenon with its own characteristics and specific effects, each of these thinkers had a profound effect on contemporary understandings of the body in relation to time. She shows how their allied concepts of life, evolution, and becoming are manifest in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Luce Irigaray. Throughout The Nick of Time , Grosz emphasizes the political and cultural imperative to fundamentally rethink time: the more clearly we understand our temporal location as beings straddling the past and the future without the security of a stable and abiding present, the more transformation becomes conceivable.

Europe as 'Center' and its 'Periphery' beyond Eurocentrism

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53-84

Enrique Dussel

Enrique Dussel, "The 'World-System': Europe as 'Center' and its 'Periphery' beyond Eurocentrism," in Beyond Philosophy: Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology, ed. and trans. Eduardo Mendieta (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 53-84;

See also the dossier in Post-continental Philosophy

Against Maldonado-Torres
War

Maldonado-Torres, Against War. See also the dossier in Post-continental Philosophy (see n. 52).

D. candidate in political theory at the University of California, Berkeley and holds prior degrees from St. John's College, Cambridge and St. Lawrence University. His interests include autonomist Marxism, race, coloniality, and radical political praxis in Latin America

George Ciccariello-Maher
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GeorGe CiCCariello-Maher is a Ph.D. candidate in political theory at the University of California, Berkeley and holds prior degrees from St. John's College, Cambridge and St. Lawrence University. His interests include autonomist Marxism, race, coloniality, and radical political praxis in Latin America. His publications have appeared in Journal of Black Studies and The Commoner. He currently lives in Caracas, Venezuela.

Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination Oxford: Polity

Jan 2003

Nigel Gibson

Nigel Gibson. Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination. Oxford: Polity, 2003. 264 pp. $59.95, paper. 0745622615. [Key Contemporary Thinkers]

Not Only the Master's Tools: AfricanAmerican Studies in Theory and Practice. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers

Jan 2006

R Lewis
Jane Anna Gordon
Gordon

Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. Not Only the Master's Tools: AfricanAmerican Studies in Theory and Practice. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2006. 321 pp. $29.95, paper. 1594511470. [Cultural Politics and the Promise of Democracy]

Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx, trans

Jan 2003

Stathis G M Kouvelakis
Goshgarian

Stathis Kouvelakis. Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx, trans. G.M. Goshgarian. London: Verso, 2003. 434 pp. $22, paper. 1859844715.

James's Notes on Dialectics

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H John
Iii C L R Mcclendon

John H. McClendon III. C. L. R. James's Notes on Dialectics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. 426 Pp. $33.00, paper. 0739109251.

The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject

Jan 2004

John Sanbonmatsu

John Sanbonmatsu. The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject. New York, Monthly Review Press, 2004. 256 pp. $22.95, paper. 1583670904.

Between Prospero and Caliban:' 3. For example, Hutton, A Declaration of Interdependence

Santos

Santos, "Between Prospero and Caliban:' 3. For example, Hutton, A Declaration of Interdependence.

February IS, or What Binds Europeans Together

Derrida Habermas

Habermas and Derrida, "February IS, or What Binds Europeans Together.

Local Histories / Global Designs

Mignolo

Mignolo, Local Histories / Global Designs;

Chicana Feminist Thought; Moraga and Anzaldua, This Bridge Called My Back. 29. Dussel

Garcia

Garcia, Chicana Feminist Thought; Moraga and Anzaldua, This Bridge Called My Back. 29. Dussel, "World System and 'Trans'-Modernity";

The Invention of the Americas

Dussel

Dussel, The Invention of the Americas;

Colonialidad del poder y clasificacion social"

Etnia Raza
Y Nacion

"'Raza, etnia, y nacion'''; "Colonialidad del poder y clasificacion social"; "Colonialityof Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America:' 42. Husserl, Cartesian Meditations.

February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together:' 45. Quijano

Derrida Habermas

Habermas and Derrida, "February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together:' 45. Quijano, "Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America:' 46. Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 14.

53. Gordon, Fanon and the Crisis of European Man. 54. Fanon highlights the relevance of the concept of damnation in The Wretched of the Earth (Les damnes de la terre)

Maldonado-Torres

Maldonado-Torres, "Decolonization and the New Identitarian Logics after September 11." 53. Gordon, Fanon and the Crisis of European Man. 54. Fanon highlights the relevance of the concept of damnation in The Wretched of the Earth (Les damnes de la terre). Cesaire also uses the term. He writes that the culture of the colonized is "condemned to remain marginal in relation to European culture" ("Culture et colonisation;' 119).

I edited two special issues of a journal with various works that were originally presented in this conference and some others; see Transmodernity

Jan 2005

Enrique Dussel
Lewis R Gordon
Paget Henry
Jose David Saldivar
Chela Sandova
Sylvia Wynter

Decolonial Tum: Post/Trans-Continental Interventions in Theory, Philosophy, and Critique at the University of California, Berkeley, April 21-23, 2005, to discuss their commonalities and differences. They included Linda Alcoff, Enrique Dussel, Lewis R. Gordon, Paget Henry,Jose David Saldivar, Chela Sandova, and Sylvia Wynter. I edited two special issues of a journal with various works that were originally presented in this conference and some others; see Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1.2 (2011) and 1.3 (2012).

Reconciliation as a Contested Future:' 66. Dussel, "The 'World-System

Maldonado-Torres

Maldonado-Torres, "Reconciliation as a Contested Future:' 66. Dussel, "The 'World-System''';

Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge

Mignolo

Mignolo, "Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge." 32. Mignolo, Local Histories / Global Designs;

This project continues today in the work of the Modernity / Coloniality Research Group, the Caribbean Philosophical Association, Latin@> philosophers and critical thinkers, and in the work of Latin American liberation philosophers, among others. Figures who belong to these groups

Cesaire

Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 13. 63. This project continues today in the work of the Modernity / Coloniality Research Group, the Caribbean Philosophical Association, Latin@> philosophers and critical thinkers, and in the work of Latin American liberation philosophers, among others. Figures who belong to these groups met in 2005 in the conference Mapping the Cesaire's Gift and the Decolonial Turn· 461

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