1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities
The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis. The contestation of the Northern myth of the autonomous subject—the dispositive that contests subject formation in the South by describing it as fragmented, incomplete, delayed or simply deviant, has been a cornerstone of theory production from the South over the years.
This volume’s contributions offer an interdisciplinary and transarea dialogue, reframing issues of selfhood and alterity, of personhood, of the human, of the commons and contesting the North’s presumption in determining what kind of subjectivities abide by its norms, whose voices are heard, who is recognised as a subject, and, by extension, whose lives matter. In the context of the shifting dynamics of today’s manifold crises, they raise questions regarding how subjectivities act on or resist such forms of contestation, contingency, and indeterminacy.
A major contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the Global South, this handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, researchers and instructors in literature, media and culture studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law, politics, visual arts and art history.
I. General Introduction: Contested and Contesting Subjectivities in the Global South
Susanne Goumegou, Sebastian Thies
1. Rethinking Subjectivity with the South: A Conceptual Prelude
2. Regimes of Subjectivity and Temporality
3. Precarisation, Articulation, and Recognition as Dynamics of Subjectivation
4. Towards a More Equitable Ecology of Knowledges
II. Articulating Subjectivity from the Global South
5. Thinking the World from Africa
Achille Mbembe
6. No Longer Northbound, Now Heading South
Cuauhtémoc Medina
7. The Global South and Internationalism
Simon During
8. Defining Legal Subjectivities for a Postcolonial International Order: The International Legal Controversy over Wars of National Liberation
Jochen von Bernstorff
III. Reconfiguring Interpellation
9. The Subject of Teaching/Learning in the Global South
Russell West-Pavlov
10. Musical Mega-events, Political Communication, and Cross-border Subjectivities in the Colombian-venezuelan Conflict. The Cases of Paz Sin Fronteras (2008) and Venezuela Aid Live (2019)
Sebastian Thies, Estéban Morera Aparicio
11. Tears and Concrete: Urban Subjectivities of Mexican Modernity through the Lens of Films
Georgina Cebey
IV. Precarised Subjectivities
12. Figurations of the Precarious. Rethinking Studies on the Precarious in the Global South from a Subject-centred Perspective
Susanne Goumegou, Sebastian Thies
13. People-on-the-move: An Emerging Historical Figure?
Elisa T. Bertuzzo
14. When Image is a Body: Modes of Surviving the Colonial Machine
Fernando Resende, Roberto Robalinho, Diego Granja do Amaral
15. Precarious Lives and the Figure of the Wound in Chilean Literature: Hijo de ladrón (1951) by Manuel Rojas and Lumpérica (1983) by Diamela Eltit
Nadja Lobensteiner
16. Hyper-consumerism, Violence and Endriago. Female Subjectivities in the Border Narcoculture of Orfa Alarcóns Perra Brava
Edith Mora Ordóñez
V. Entangled Regimes of Temporality
17. The Time of the Commons and the Subject of the South
Eric Worby
18. Disruptive Temporality and Post-apocalyptic Subjectivity: Narrating Violence in Tierno Monénembo’s Les écailles du ciel
Susanne Goumegou
19. Questioning the “New” Zimbabwe: Biomythography and Political Subjectivity in Panashe Chigumadzi’s These Bones Will Rise Again (2018)
Polo Belina Moji
VI. Contesting the Western Subject of Knowledge
20. Zoē-assemblage: Immanent Life in the Age of the Anthropocene
Sudesh Mishra
21. Conversing with María Luisa Chacarito: A Ralámuli Woman’s Perceptions on Life in an Interconnected World
Sabina Aguilera
22. Subjectivities, Agency and Ritual Performance in the Garhwal Himalayas
Karin Margret Polit
23. Just Thinking
Leonhard Praeg
Biography
Sebastian Thies holds the chair for Ibero-American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen. He was convenor of the Research Training Network “Entangled Temporalities in the Global South” and was one of the coordinators of the BMBF/DAAD thematic network “Futures under construction in the Global South” (2018-20). His research interests include Global South Studies and Latin American literature, film and media studies. He recently co-edited The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas.
Susanne Goumegou is Professor of French and Italian Literature at the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Tübingen and director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies. In addition to her research in French and Italian literature on dream, theory of fiction and illusion, she has worked in Global South Studies with a focus on Francophone Literatures in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has published on African literature in Contracampo: Brazilian Journal of Communication, Études Littéraires Africaines and Philosophia Africana.
Georgina Cebey is a faculty member at the School of Architecture of the Autonomus University of Baja California (UABC) and a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico. She received her PhD in Art History from the National Autonomus University of Mexico (UNAM). Her work focuses on the history of Mexican architecture, with emphasis on the representation of architecture in art and media. In 2017 her book Arquitectura del fracaso won the Vasconcelos national essay prize in Mexico.
