Decolonising Political Concepts

• Autore: Clave-Mercier Valentin
• Pubblicazione: 2023; Milton : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2023; ©2024
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 pages)
• Disciplina: 325/.3
• Soggetto topico: Decolonization
• Classificazione: SCI030000SOC015000
• Altri autori: WuthMarie
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Cover Page -- Half Title page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface: We Shall Dance Better -- References -- At the Crossroads of Coloniality, Power, and Knowledge: It Is Time to Decolonise Political Concepts -- Decolonial Theory, Political Concepts, and the Ideological West -- Searching for a More Habitable Place: Decolonising Political Concepts -- Concepts beyond Borders -- Moving Sideways, Looking Forward -- Notes -- References -- Part I Decolonial Horizons: Revealing the Coloniality of Knowledge and Power 1 Historicising History: A Critique Enabling View of History -- Models of Historiography -- The Empirical Model -- The Constructivist Model -- The Postmodern Historiographic Model and the Charge of Relativism -- Social Conditions and Contingency -- Social Conditions as Conditions of Possibility of Historical Knowledge -- Objectivity in Historical Explanation and General Prescription -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Recalcitrance of White Ignorance -- Introduction -- White Ignorance and the Causal Role of Race -- Conception and Perception -- Memory and Testimony A Recalcitrant Ignorance -- Motivational Group Interest -- Affective Aspects of White Ignorance -- Affective Numbness -- White Ignorance as an Embodied Unconscious Habit -- Beyond Beliefs -- Recalcitrant Habits and White Narcissism -- The Emotions of Oppressors as Seen by the Oppressed -- Projective Mechanisms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Idealised Subject of Freedom and the Refugee -- Introduction -- Freedom and National Citizenship -- The Anomaly of the Paradigm -- Humanitarian Approach -- The Arendtian Critique -- Freedom and (Non)-subjectivity -- Refugees' (Non)-subjectivity Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Feeling Coloniality: Bodies, Sexuality, and Agency -- 4 Politics without a Proper Locus: Political Agency between Action and Practice -- Introduction: Smoke Onstage -- Arendt Experiences Loss -- Politics and Action as an Answer to Loss -- Arendt's Misrecognition -- What Is Practice? -- How Can Action and Practice Still Relate to One Another? -- The Domain of the Senses -- Notes -- References -- 5 Enfleshed Political Violences: Rethinking Sexual Violence from a Decolonial Critique to the Political Construction of the Body as Flesh Coloniality of Gender and the Mark of the Human -- The Depoliticisation of the Private -- Theorising the Flesh -- (In)Defensible: Sexual Violence and the Imperial Economy of Violence -- Conclusion: Violence, Sex, and Politics in the Paradigm of the Flesh -- References -- Part III Subverting Coloniality: Decolonising the Language of Resistance -- 6 The Politics of Language in Anti-authoritarian Political Practice: The Southern Mediterranean Case -- Introduction -- Translation as a Political Practice of Anarchism -- Anarchist Knowledge Production in a Postcolonial Context.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Decolonising Political Concepts
• ISBN: 9781000999464; 1000999467; 9781000999457; 1000999459; 9781003293460; 1003293468
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910758472903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research on decoloniality and new postcolonialisms.