TY - BOOK AU - Gordon,Jane Anna TI - Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon T2 - Just Ideas SN - 9780823254811 AV - JC179.R9 G67 2014 U1 - 320.01 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - General will KW - Legitimacy of governments KW - Political science KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy & Theory KW - Political Science KW - Race & Ethnic Studies KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory KW - bisacsh KW - Creolization KW - Fanon KW - Rousseau KW - alternative methodologies KW - colonization KW - comparative political theory KW - decolonization KW - democratic legitimacy KW - national consciousness KW - revolution KW - the general will N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823254842?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823254842 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823254842/original ER -