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Creolizing Political Theory : Reading Rousseau through Fanon / Jane Anna Gordon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Just IdeasPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823254811
  • 9780823254842
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01 23
LOC classification:
  • JC179.R9 G67 2014
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Delegitimating Decadent Inquiry -- 2. Decolonizing Disciplinary Methods -- 3. Rousseau’s General Will -- 4. Fanonian National Consciousness -- 5. Thinking Through Creolization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political locations they both seek to call “home.”Unlike multiculturalism, in which different cultures are thought to co-exist relatively separately, creolization describes how people reinterpret themselves through interaction with one another. While indebted to comparative political theory, Gordon offers a critique of comparison by demonstrating the generative capacity of creolizing methodologies. She does so by bringing together the eighteenth-century revolutionary Swiss thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the twentieth-century Martinican-born Algerian liberationist Frantz Fanon. While both provocatively challenged whether we can study the world in ways that do not duplicate the prejudices that sustain its inequalities, Fanon, she argues, outlined a vision of how to bring into being the democratically legitimate alternatives that Rousseau mainly imagined.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Delegitimating Decadent Inquiry -- 2. Decolonizing Disciplinary Methods -- 3. Rousseau’s General Will -- 4. Fanonian National Consciousness -- 5. Thinking Through Creolization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political locations they both seek to call “home.”Unlike multiculturalism, in which different cultures are thought to co-exist relatively separately, creolization describes how people reinterpret themselves through interaction with one another. While indebted to comparative political theory, Gordon offers a critique of comparison by demonstrating the generative capacity of creolizing methodologies. She does so by bringing together the eighteenth-century revolutionary Swiss thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the twentieth-century Martinican-born Algerian liberationist Frantz Fanon. While both provocatively challenged whether we can study the world in ways that do not duplicate the prejudices that sustain its inequalities, Fanon, she argues, outlined a vision of how to bring into being the democratically legitimate alternatives that Rousseau mainly imagined.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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