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Decolonising Political Concepts book cover

1st Edition

Decolonising Political Concepts

Edited By Valentin Clavé-Mercier, Marie Wuth Copyright 2024
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions as well as their substantive translations into practices. Despite the acclaimed twentieth-century decolonisation waves, coloniality still remains in subtle and obvious practices, in visible and invisible... Read more

List of Contributors

Preface: We Shall Dance Better

OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA

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

VALENTIN CLAVE-MERCIER AND MARIE WUTH

　

PART I

Decolonial Horizons: Revealing the Coloniality of Knowledge and Power

1 Historicising History: A Critique Enabling View of History

KARIM BARAKAT

2 The Recalcitrance of White Ignorance

LAURENCIA SAENZ BENAVIDES

3 The Idealised Subject of Freedom and the Refugee

SHAHIN NASIRI

　

PART II

Feeling Coloniality: Bodies, Sexuality, and Agency

4 Politics without a Proper Locus: Political Agency between Action and Practice

HENRIKE KOHPEIs AND MARIE WUTH

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

CECILIA CIENFUEGOS MARTINEZ

　

PART III

Subverting Coloniality: Decolonising the Language of Resistance

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

LAURA GALIAN

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

ASTHA SAXENA AND RADHIKA CHITKARA

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

RAFAEL VERBUYST

Afterword

RITU VIJ

Biography

Valentin Clavé-Mercier is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Complutense Institute for International Studies (ICEI) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). His overall research interest lies in how non-Western and decolonial political ontologies and praxis contribute to the rearticulation of contemporary political thought and political imaginaries. His most recent research focuses on discourses and practices of Indigenous sovereignty, more specifically on their deployment by Māori in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. His areas of interest include decolonial/postcolonial studies, Indigenous politics, contentious politics, sovereignty studies, political geography, and identity politics. He is the author of “Politics of Sovereignty: Settler Resonance and Māori Resistance in Aotearoa/New Zealand” (2022).

Marie Wuth is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Hamburg. She is a political and moral philosopher specialising in social and political ontology, environmental ethics, democratic theory, early modern philosophy, French theory, and decolonial and feminist theory. Her research focuses on the question of the political, agency, identity, and the power of affects and images in politics. Additionally, she is interested in the impact of relations of power and societal structures for conceptualisations and the relation of nature and politics. Her most recent publications include “Hate. Imaginary Roots and Fatal Dynamics of a Complex Relations” (2022) and “Circular Politics. Potentials, Limits and Boundaries of an Arendtian Nature-Politics” (2021).

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