Información General

• Autores: Valentin Clavé Mercier (coord.), Marie Wuth (coord.)
• Editores: Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge
• Año de publicación: 2023
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781032275970, 9781032275918, 9781003293460
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Resumen

• Decolonisation studies and practical calls for decolonisation have gained significant momentum in the last two decades. However, political concepts, as the frames and building blocks of both political thought and political practice, are often overlooked in the deployment of such a critical attitude. This opening chapter argues that the central task of this volume – to decolonise political concepts – is one that is simultaneously underappreciated and yet crucial. If they remain unaddressed, the colonial legacies contained in the predominant conceptualisations constituting modern political thought will keep constraining our political praxis and imaginations. In this scenario, world-making efforts towards genuine decolonisation appear to be thwarted from the outset. We thus begin by arguing for the topicality and necessity of decolonising political concepts. We then provide a short overview of the common ground of contemporary decolonial thought, addressing with special attention the relation between language and coloniality/decoloniality. Political concepts are presented as key markers of this language whose contestability and political nature are argued to be inherent although often diluted. Finally, we delve into this volume’s shared understanding of the West as an ideological project before presenting in more detail the different contributions that form Decolonising Political Concepts.

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Listado de artículos

• • At the Crossroads of Coloniality, Power, and Knowledge: It Is Time to Decolonise Political Concepts

    Valentin Clavé Mercier

    págs. 1-20

    

  • Part I. Decolonial Horizons

    • Historicising History: A Critique Enabling View of History

      Karim Barakat

      págs. 23-40

      

    • The Recalcitrance of White Ignorance

      Laurencia Sáenz Benavides

      págs. 41-60

      

    • The Idealised Subject of Freedomand the Refugee

      Shahin Nasiri

      págs. 61-79

      

  • Part II. Feeling Coloniality

    • Politics without a Proper Locus: Political Agency between Actionand Practice

      Henrike Kohpeiß, Marie Wuth

      págs. 83-99

      

    • Enfleshed Political Violences: Rethinking Sexual Violence from a Decolonial Critique to the Political Construction of the Body as Flesh

      Cecilia Cienfuegos Martínez

      págs. 100-113

      

  • Part III. Subverting Coloniality

    • The Politics of Language in Anti-authoritarian Political Practice: The Southern Mediterranean Case

      Laura Galián Hernández

      págs. 117-132

      

    • Decolonising Sovereignty and Reimagining Autonomy: Adivasi Assertions and Interpretations of Law

      Astha Saxena, Radhika Chitkara

      págs. 133-152

      

    • Indigeneity, Autochthony, and Belonging: Conceptual Ambiguity as an Impediment to Decolonisation in South Africa

      Rafael Verbuyst

      págs. 153-170