The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities

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.