1st Edition

Coloniality, Ontology, and the Question of the Posthuman

Edited By Mark Jackson Copyright 2018
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book brings together emerging insights from across the humanities and social sciences to highlight how postcolonial studies are being transformed by increasingly influential and radical approaches to nature, matter, subjectivity, human agency, and politics. These include decolonial studies, political ontology, political ecology, indigeneity, and posthumanisms. The book examines how... Read more

Introduction: a critical bridging exercise Mark Jackson. 1. For new ecologies of thought: towards decolonizing critique. Mark Jackson. 2. Anti-colonial ontologies – a dialogue. Angela Last. 3. Chronic carriers: creole pigs, postplantation politics, and disturbing agrarian ontologies in Haiti. Sophie Moore. 4. Terra plena: revisiting contemporary agrarian struggles in Central America through a "full earth" perspective. Naomi Millner. 5. Refracting colonialism in Canada: fish tales, text, and insistent public grief. Zoe Todd. 6. Unsettling the urban geographies of settler-colonial cities: aporetic encounters with the spatiotemporal dynamics of modern logic. Delacey Tedesco. 7. "Well, City Boy Rangoon, it’s time to stitch up the evening": material, meaning, and Man in the (post)colonial city. Lisa Tilley. 8. Ethno-linguistic cartographies as colonial embodiment in postcolonial Sri Lanka. Chitra Jayathilake. 9. Immanent comparisons and the perception of the post-human in the filmic sensorium of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Carlo Bonura. 10. Political ontology and international relations: politics, self-estrangement, and void universalism in a pluriverse. Hans-Martin Jaeger

Biography

Mark Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies at the University of Bristol, UK.