Rosalba Icaza
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197266830
- eISBN:
- 9780191938160
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266830.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Decolonial thinking has introduced border thinking as an epistemological position that contributes to a shift in the forms of knowing in which the world is thought from the concrete incarnated ...
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Decolonial thinking has introduced border thinking as an epistemological position that contributes to a shift in the forms of knowing in which the world is thought from the concrete incarnated experiences of colonial difference and the wounds left. In this chapter, Argentinean feminist philosopher Maria Lugones’ (1992) interpretation of Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands foregrounds its main argument: border thinking as an embodied consciousness in which dualities and vulnerability are central for a decolonisation of how we think about the geo and body politics of knowledge, coloniality, political economy and of course, gender in International Relations and Global Politics.Less
Decolonial thinking has introduced border thinking as an epistemological position that contributes to a shift in the forms of knowing in which the world is thought from the concrete incarnated experiences of colonial difference and the wounds left. In this chapter, Argentinean feminist philosopher Maria Lugones’ (1992) interpretation of Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands foregrounds its main argument: border thinking as an embodied consciousness in which dualities and vulnerability are central for a decolonisation of how we think about the geo and body politics of knowledge, coloniality, political economy and of course, gender in International Relations and Global Politics.
Petula Sik Ying Ho and A. Ka Tat Tsang
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139156
- eISBN:
- 9789882209756
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139156.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
The anthology provides an exemplary methodological model of community-based research through the authors’ studies on sexual and erotic attitudes and practices of gay men and middle-aged women in Hong ...
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The anthology provides an exemplary methodological model of community-based research through the authors’ studies on sexual and erotic attitudes and practices of gay men and middle-aged women in Hong Kong over the last fifteen years. This collection focuses on issues that have major scholastic contribution to the field, namely, the voices of women on issues of sex and desire, and the investigation of multiple sex relationships among Hong Kong men and women. It also addresses clinical psychological issues and sex education topics that serve to enrich the current state of sexuality studies. The book reveals the social changes, trends, movements, and processes in Hong Kong and across China, thereby highlighting the reality of coloniality and how our experience of desire/sexuality is conditioned by broad, global and socio-political forces.Less
The anthology provides an exemplary methodological model of community-based research through the authors’ studies on sexual and erotic attitudes and practices of gay men and middle-aged women in Hong Kong over the last fifteen years. This collection focuses on issues that have major scholastic contribution to the field, namely, the voices of women on issues of sex and desire, and the investigation of multiple sex relationships among Hong Kong men and women. It also addresses clinical psychological issues and sex education topics that serve to enrich the current state of sexuality studies. The book reveals the social changes, trends, movements, and processes in Hong Kong and across China, thereby highlighting the reality of coloniality and how our experience of desire/sexuality is conditioned by broad, global and socio-political forces.
Patrick Saveau and Veronique Machelidon (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780719099489
- eISBN:
- 9781526135902
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099489.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This volume takes the pulse of French post-coloniality by studying representations of trans-Mediterranean immigration to France in recent literature, television and film. The writers and filmmakers ...
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This volume takes the pulse of French post-coloniality by studying representations of trans-Mediterranean immigration to France in recent literature, television and film. The writers and filmmakers examined have found new ways to conceptualize the French heritage of immigration from North Africa and to portray the state of multiculturalism within – and in spite of – a continuing Republican framework. Their work deflates stereotypes, promotes respect for cultural and ethnic minorities, and gives a new dignity to subjects supposedly located on the margins of the Republic. Establishing a productive dialogue with Marianne Hirsch’s ground-breaking concept of postmemory, this volume provides a much-needed vocabulary for rethinking the intergenerational legacy of trans-Mediterranean immigrants.Less
This volume takes the pulse of French post-coloniality by studying representations of trans-Mediterranean immigration to France in recent literature, television and film. The writers and filmmakers examined have found new ways to conceptualize the French heritage of immigration from North Africa and to portray the state of multiculturalism within – and in spite of – a continuing Republican framework. Their work deflates stereotypes, promotes respect for cultural and ethnic minorities, and gives a new dignity to subjects supposedly located on the margins of the Republic. Establishing a productive dialogue with Marianne Hirsch’s ground-breaking concept of postmemory, this volume provides a much-needed vocabulary for rethinking the intergenerational legacy of trans-Mediterranean immigrants.
Joseph Drexler-Dreis
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823281886
- eISBN:
- 9780823286003
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823281886.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This book raises the question of what it means to engage in theological reflection in an authentic way in the present context of global coloniality. In response to the historical manifestations of ...
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This book raises the question of what it means to engage in theological reflection in an authentic way in the present context of global coloniality. In response to the historical manifestations of the coloniality of power on the levels of being, knowledge, and eschatology, it searches for a decolonized image of salvation that can unsettle historical structures of coloniality. The book starts by analyzing modern/colonial structures that shape the present context and the ways Christian theology is entangled in these structures. I then argues that the theological work of Ignacio Ellacuría and Jon Sobrino points to the theoretical possibility of a theology that contests the patterns of domination that continue after political decolonization. Using the work of Ellacuría and Sobrino, it turns to the ways Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin responded to colonial modernity by exposing idols and revealing illusionary notions of stasis in light of alternative commitments to orientations of decolonial love. This decolonial love, and the ways it is historicized in praxis, is perceived as violent from the perspective of Western modernity. This book argues that the orientations of decolonial from which Fanon and Baldwin operate break open cracks in Western modernity and make salvation present in history. Decolonial love thus becomes theologically pedagogic—that is, it provides a source from which to make theological claims. Decolonial love offers one way of doing theology and one way of shaping the content of a decolonized image of salvation.Less
This book raises the question of what it means to engage in theological reflection in an authentic way in the present context of global coloniality. In response to the historical manifestations of the coloniality of power on the levels of being, knowledge, and eschatology, it searches for a decolonized image of salvation that can unsettle historical structures of coloniality. The book starts by analyzing modern/colonial structures that shape the present context and the ways Christian theology is entangled in these structures. I then argues that the theological work of Ignacio Ellacuría and Jon Sobrino points to the theoretical possibility of a theology that contests the patterns of domination that continue after political decolonization. Using the work of Ellacuría and Sobrino, it turns to the ways Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin responded to colonial modernity by exposing idols and revealing illusionary notions of stasis in light of alternative commitments to orientations of decolonial love. This decolonial love, and the ways it is historicized in praxis, is perceived as violent from the perspective of Western modernity. This book argues that the orientations of decolonial from which Fanon and Baldwin operate break open cracks in Western modernity and make salvation present in history. Decolonial love thus becomes theologically pedagogic—that is, it provides a source from which to make theological claims. Decolonial love offers one way of doing theology and one way of shaping the content of a decolonized image of salvation.
Krista E. Van Vleet
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042782
- eISBN:
- 9780252051647
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042782.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter describes contemporary Peru, and the highland Andean region, as the wider context in which the residence, Palomitáy, is situated. The chapter first explains the particularities of ...
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This chapter describes contemporary Peru, and the highland Andean region, as the wider context in which the residence, Palomitáy, is situated. The chapter first explains the particularities of gender, racial, and class discourses in the postcolonial and neoliberal context of Peru. To recognize the multiple trajectories of inequality at various scales (from local to national and global) that configure this place and young women’s lives, the chapter considers three dimensions of everyday life. Recent historical events, social structures, and individual experiences of migration and mobility, reproductive politics and everyday violence, and humanitarianism and insecurity link the lives of girls in Palomitáy with the lives of girls and women in Peru, more generally.Less
This chapter describes contemporary Peru, and the highland Andean region, as the wider context in which the residence, Palomitáy, is situated. The chapter first explains the particularities of gender, racial, and class discourses in the postcolonial and neoliberal context of Peru. To recognize the multiple trajectories of inequality at various scales (from local to national and global) that configure this place and young women’s lives, the chapter considers three dimensions of everyday life. Recent historical events, social structures, and individual experiences of migration and mobility, reproductive politics and everyday violence, and humanitarianism and insecurity link the lives of girls in Palomitáy with the lives of girls and women in Peru, more generally.
Law Wing Sang
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099296
- eISBN:
- 9789882206755
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099296.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter illustrates postcolonial cultural politics by drawing upon a few examples from a special issue of the Bulletin of Hong Kong Cultural Studies (BHKCS) published in 1996 — one year before ...
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This chapter illustrates postcolonial cultural politics by drawing upon a few examples from a special issue of the Bulletin of Hong Kong Cultural Studies (BHKCS) published in 1996 — one year before the handover. It notes that these articles emerged as a response to the stifling political and intellectual atmosphere of “1997 politics”, in which Hong Kong people, though excluded from any meaningful negotiation, were bombarded daily by hollow Chinese nationalist rhetoric and British hypocrisy. It further notes that the unreflective transplantations of some critical frameworks onto transitional Hong Kong were taken to task, as those frameworks did not properly deal with Hong Kong colonialities. It observes that although the impact of the critical and dissident young authors cannot compare with that of heads of state and local political leaders, it provided something new to the understanding of Hong Kong's coloniality — not just of its past, but of its changing face.Less
This chapter illustrates postcolonial cultural politics by drawing upon a few examples from a special issue of the Bulletin of Hong Kong Cultural Studies (BHKCS) published in 1996 — one year before the handover. It notes that these articles emerged as a response to the stifling political and intellectual atmosphere of “1997 politics”, in which Hong Kong people, though excluded from any meaningful negotiation, were bombarded daily by hollow Chinese nationalist rhetoric and British hypocrisy. It further notes that the unreflective transplantations of some critical frameworks onto transitional Hong Kong were taken to task, as those frameworks did not properly deal with Hong Kong colonialities. It observes that although the impact of the critical and dissident young authors cannot compare with that of heads of state and local political leaders, it provided something new to the understanding of Hong Kong's coloniality — not just of its past, but of its changing face.
E. Natalie Rothman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449079
- eISBN:
- 9780801463112
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449079.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This afterword argues that the practices of mediation, classification, and demarcation elaborated by trans-imperial subjects in early modern Venice constituted important elements in the genealogy of ...
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This afterword argues that the practices of mediation, classification, and demarcation elaborated by trans-imperial subjects in early modern Venice constituted important elements in the genealogy of Enlightenment anthropology and the nascent discipline of Orientalism. In particular, eighteenth-century Orientalists, who articulated taxonomies of Mediterranean peoples based on language, ritual, and custom, relied on the efforts of their trans-imperial forebears in the previous two centuries to institutionalize their specialized knowledge of things Ottoman in several European metropoles. The scientific study of Ottoman culture depended on the development of commercial and diplomatic institutions that facilitated the production and circulation of specific kinds of knowledge across linguistic and political boundaries. The concept of trans-imperial subjects raises important questions about prevailing notions of early modern coloniality, citizenship, and subjecthood.Less
This afterword argues that the practices of mediation, classification, and demarcation elaborated by trans-imperial subjects in early modern Venice constituted important elements in the genealogy of Enlightenment anthropology and the nascent discipline of Orientalism. In particular, eighteenth-century Orientalists, who articulated taxonomies of Mediterranean peoples based on language, ritual, and custom, relied on the efforts of their trans-imperial forebears in the previous two centuries to institutionalize their specialized knowledge of things Ottoman in several European metropoles. The scientific study of Ottoman culture depended on the development of commercial and diplomatic institutions that facilitated the production and circulation of specific kinds of knowledge across linguistic and political boundaries. The concept of trans-imperial subjects raises important questions about prevailing notions of early modern coloniality, citizenship, and subjecthood.
Ana Deumert, Anne Storch, and Nick Shepherd (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198793205
- eISBN:
- 9780191835124
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198793205.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Language Families, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
The discipline of linguistics in general, and the field of African linguistics in particular, appear to be facing a paradigm shift. There is a strong movement away from established methodologies and ...
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The discipline of linguistics in general, and the field of African linguistics in particular, appear to be facing a paradigm shift. There is a strong movement away from established methodologies and theoretical approaches, especially structural linguistics and generativism, and a broad move towards critical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. These developments have encouraged a greater awareness and careful discussion of basic problems of data production in linguistics, as well as the role played by the ideologies of researchers. The volume invites a critical engagement with the history of the discipline, taking into account its deep entanglements with colonial knowledge production. Colonial concepts about language have helped to implement Northern ideas of what counts as knowledge and truth; they have established institutions and rituals of education, and have led to the lasting marginalization of African ways of speaking, codes, and multilingualisms. This volume engages critically with the colonial history of our discipline and argues that many of the colonial paradigms of knowledge production are still with us, shaping linguistic practices in the here-and-now as well as non-specialist talk about language and culture. The contributors explore how metalinguistic concepts and ways of creating linguistic knowledge are grounded in colonial practice, and exist parallel to, and sometimes in dialogue with other knowledges about language.Less
The discipline of linguistics in general, and the field of African linguistics in particular, appear to be facing a paradigm shift. There is a strong movement away from established methodologies and theoretical approaches, especially structural linguistics and generativism, and a broad move towards critical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. These developments have encouraged a greater awareness and careful discussion of basic problems of data production in linguistics, as well as the role played by the ideologies of researchers. The volume invites a critical engagement with the history of the discipline, taking into account its deep entanglements with colonial knowledge production. Colonial concepts about language have helped to implement Northern ideas of what counts as knowledge and truth; they have established institutions and rituals of education, and have led to the lasting marginalization of African ways of speaking, codes, and multilingualisms. This volume engages critically with the colonial history of our discipline and argues that many of the colonial paradigms of knowledge production are still with us, shaping linguistic practices in the here-and-now as well as non-specialist talk about language and culture. The contributors explore how metalinguistic concepts and ways of creating linguistic knowledge are grounded in colonial practice, and exist parallel to, and sometimes in dialogue with other knowledges about language.
Walter Mignolo
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823241354
- eISBN:
- 9780823241392
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823241354.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
The essay by Walter Mignolo defines decolonialism and differentiates it from anticolonial and anticapitalist struggles framed within Western civilization. The two pillars of decolonial thinking are ...
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The essay by Walter Mignolo defines decolonialism and differentiates it from anticolonial and anticapitalist struggles framed within Western civilization. The two pillars of decolonial thinking are geopolitical epistemology, which responds to local needs, habits, and memories that emerge from the Third World, and biographic political epistemology, which works toward building states that are at the service of the people and not vice versa. The chapter highlights the work of Indian historian and political theorist Partha Chatterjee and that of Maori national and anthropologist Linda Tuhiwai Smith in order to provide examples of scholars who make decolonial moves by claiming the right to produce knowledge and advance their own people. Decoloniality is then clarified in terms of what it has in common with de-Westernization.Less
The essay by Walter Mignolo defines decolonialism and differentiates it from anticolonial and anticapitalist struggles framed within Western civilization. The two pillars of decolonial thinking are geopolitical epistemology, which responds to local needs, habits, and memories that emerge from the Third World, and biographic political epistemology, which works toward building states that are at the service of the people and not vice versa. The chapter highlights the work of Indian historian and political theorist Partha Chatterjee and that of Maori national and anthropologist Linda Tuhiwai Smith in order to provide examples of scholars who make decolonial moves by claiming the right to produce knowledge and advance their own people. Decoloniality is then clarified in terms of what it has in common with de-Westernization.
María Lugones
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823241354
- eISBN:
- 9780823241392
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823241354.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
María Lugones’ essay begins by reasserting the importance of understanding the inseparability of race and gender and the coalitional meaning of Women of Color: a term that reveals the self as well as ...
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María Lugones’ essay begins by reasserting the importance of understanding the inseparability of race and gender and the coalitional meaning of Women of Color: a term that reveals the self as well as reality as multiple by indicating a complex social construction that includes how Women of Color are perceived by others as inferior as well as how they reject such a construction. Lugones’ valuing of coalitional understanding and praxis emphasizes how collectivities and communities are the fractured locus from which emerges a subjective/intersubjective understanding of self. The essay then complicates the understanding of racialized gender by introducing the “coloniality of gender,” emphasizing that this is not merely a classification but also refers to the process of dehumanizing people to fit them into this category. To oppose the coloniality of gender, Lugones introduces “decolonial feminism” as a kind of theory which frees subjugated knowledges. The essay ends with a call to coalition building that has a starting point in the fractured locus that oppressing →← resisting peoples have in common.Less
María Lugones’ essay begins by reasserting the importance of understanding the inseparability of race and gender and the coalitional meaning of Women of Color: a term that reveals the self as well as reality as multiple by indicating a complex social construction that includes how Women of Color are perceived by others as inferior as well as how they reject such a construction. Lugones’ valuing of coalitional understanding and praxis emphasizes how collectivities and communities are the fractured locus from which emerges a subjective/intersubjective understanding of self. The essay then complicates the understanding of racialized gender by introducing the “coloniality of gender,” emphasizing that this is not merely a classification but also refers to the process of dehumanizing people to fit them into this category. To oppose the coloniality of gender, Lugones introduces “decolonial feminism” as a kind of theory which frees subjugated knowledges. The essay ends with a call to coalition building that has a starting point in the fractured locus that oppressing →← resisting peoples have in common.
Hamid Dabashi
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474479288
- eISBN:
- 9781474495509
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479288.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The study of Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s arguably most seminal text Gharbzadegi (Westoxication) has historically suffered from a mode of bizarre nativism that has in turn projected the nativism of the Iranian ...
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The study of Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s arguably most seminal text Gharbzadegi (Westoxication) has historically suffered from a mode of bizarre nativism that has in turn projected the nativism of the Iranian or Iranist scholar onto the presumed nativism of the subject of their studies, Al-e Ahmad himself. Al-e Ahmad, contrary to their common assumption, was not a nativist. Quite to the contrary: he had a wide global perspective in his prose and politics. They are nativist – these scholars who have historically, systematically and consistently abused, misread and sought to discredit him as ‘a nativist’. This chapter revist Al-e Ahmad’s classic text --Less
The study of Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s arguably most seminal text Gharbzadegi (Westoxication) has historically suffered from a mode of bizarre nativism that has in turn projected the nativism of the Iranian or Iranist scholar onto the presumed nativism of the subject of their studies, Al-e Ahmad himself. Al-e Ahmad, contrary to their common assumption, was not a nativist. Quite to the contrary: he had a wide global perspective in his prose and politics. They are nativist – these scholars who have historically, systematically and consistently abused, misread and sought to discredit him as ‘a nativist’. This chapter revist Al-e Ahmad’s classic text --
Begoña Aretxaga
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520252233
- eISBN:
- 9780520941021
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520252233.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
This chapter explores violence in post-dictatorial Spain. It raises questions about the elements of post-coloniality that extend beyond what is normally considered the postcolonial world, ...
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This chapter explores violence in post-dictatorial Spain. It raises questions about the elements of post-coloniality that extend beyond what is normally considered the postcolonial world, particularly the marginal status within the global political and economic order. The chapter attempts to understand the “incomprehensible logic” of the violence that arose in Spain's now-autonomous Basque Country, perpetrated by guerrilla group ETA against the Basque police. It argues that the madness of violence of the radical nationalists showed a profound ambivalence toward the nation-state, a fear that the unified sense of self as the colonized people stands to be lost in a coming into nationhood.Less
This chapter explores violence in post-dictatorial Spain. It raises questions about the elements of post-coloniality that extend beyond what is normally considered the postcolonial world, particularly the marginal status within the global political and economic order. The chapter attempts to understand the “incomprehensible logic” of the violence that arose in Spain's now-autonomous Basque Country, perpetrated by guerrilla group ETA against the Basque police. It argues that the madness of violence of the radical nationalists showed a profound ambivalence toward the nation-state, a fear that the unified sense of self as the colonized people stands to be lost in a coming into nationhood.
Yarí Pérez Marín
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781789622508
- eISBN:
- 9781800851016
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789622508.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter 4 analyses Juan de Cárdenas’s Problemas y secretos maravillosos de las Indias in the context of the negative critiques it offered of two contemporaries who had written about New World ...
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Chapter 4 analyses Juan de Cárdenas’s Problemas y secretos maravillosos de las Indias in the context of the negative critiques it offered of two contemporaries who had written about New World medicine without leaving Spain: Nicolás Monardes and Oliva Sabuco. Cárdenas found fault with both Monardes's Historia medicinal (1565) and Sabuco's Nveva filosofia de la naturaleza del hombre (1587) identifying flaws in the cause-and-effect reasoning espoused by each source and providing examples that arrived at different results. But Cárdenas’s medical challenge, articulated on scientific principle, belied a growing unease about the marginal status conferred to locally published scholarly efforts in the larger global stage of scientific enquiry; Monardes was keenly interested in New World bezoars especially whereas Sabuco’s ideas on digestion rested on her observations of the quick effects of ingesting coca leaves from Peru. By adopting an oppositional model of refutation that anchored itself on a geographically and culturally determined group identity, Cárdenas’s writing began mounting a challenge to the unequal distribution of epistemological authority in transatlantic colonial hierarchies.Less
Chapter 4 analyses Juan de Cárdenas’s Problemas y secretos maravillosos de las Indias in the context of the negative critiques it offered of two contemporaries who had written about New World medicine without leaving Spain: Nicolás Monardes and Oliva Sabuco. Cárdenas found fault with both Monardes's Historia medicinal (1565) and Sabuco's Nveva filosofia de la naturaleza del hombre (1587) identifying flaws in the cause-and-effect reasoning espoused by each source and providing examples that arrived at different results. But Cárdenas’s medical challenge, articulated on scientific principle, belied a growing unease about the marginal status conferred to locally published scholarly efforts in the larger global stage of scientific enquiry; Monardes was keenly interested in New World bezoars especially whereas Sabuco’s ideas on digestion rested on her observations of the quick effects of ingesting coca leaves from Peru. By adopting an oppositional model of refutation that anchored itself on a geographically and culturally determined group identity, Cárdenas’s writing began mounting a challenge to the unequal distribution of epistemological authority in transatlantic colonial hierarchies.
Robin Fiddian
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- July 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198794714
- eISBN:
- 9780191836176
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198794714.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, European Literature
This work considers geopolitical and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Jorge Luis Borges, analysing the development of a postcolonial sensibility in works such as ‘Mythical Founding of ...
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This work considers geopolitical and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Jorge Luis Borges, analysing the development of a postcolonial sensibility in works such as ‘Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires’, ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’, ‘Theme of the Traitor and the Hero’, and ‘Brodie’s Report’. It examines Borges’s treatment of national and regional identity and of East–West relations in several essays and poems, contained, for example, in Other Inquisitions, The Self and the Other, and Seven Nights. The theoretical concepts of ‘coloniality’ and ‘Occidentalism’ shed new light on several works by Borges, who acquires a sharper political profile than previously acknowledged. The book pays special attention to Oriental subjects in Borges’s works of the 1970s and 1980s, where their treatment is bound up with a critique of Occidental values and assumptions. Classified by some commentators as a precursor of postcolonialism, Borges emerges as a prototype of the postcolonial intellectual exemplified by James Joyce, Aimé Césaire, and Edward Said. From a regional perspective, his repertoire of geopolitical and historical concerns resonates with those of Leopoldo Zea, Enrique Dussel, Eduardo Galeano, and Joaquín Torres, amongst others, who illustrate different strands and kinds of Latin American postcolonialism(s) of the mid- to late twentieth century. At the same time, essential differences in respect of political and artistic temperament mark Borges out as a postcolonial intellectual and creative writer who is unquestionably sui generis.Less
This work considers geopolitical and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Jorge Luis Borges, analysing the development of a postcolonial sensibility in works such as ‘Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires’, ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’, ‘Theme of the Traitor and the Hero’, and ‘Brodie’s Report’. It examines Borges’s treatment of national and regional identity and of East–West relations in several essays and poems, contained, for example, in Other Inquisitions, The Self and the Other, and Seven Nights. The theoretical concepts of ‘coloniality’ and ‘Occidentalism’ shed new light on several works by Borges, who acquires a sharper political profile than previously acknowledged. The book pays special attention to Oriental subjects in Borges’s works of the 1970s and 1980s, where their treatment is bound up with a critique of Occidental values and assumptions. Classified by some commentators as a precursor of postcolonialism, Borges emerges as a prototype of the postcolonial intellectual exemplified by James Joyce, Aimé Césaire, and Edward Said. From a regional perspective, his repertoire of geopolitical and historical concerns resonates with those of Leopoldo Zea, Enrique Dussel, Eduardo Galeano, and Joaquín Torres, amongst others, who illustrate different strands and kinds of Latin American postcolonialism(s) of the mid- to late twentieth century. At the same time, essential differences in respect of political and artistic temperament mark Borges out as a postcolonial intellectual and creative writer who is unquestionably sui generis.
Sunil Bhatia
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199964727
- eISBN:
- 9780190690243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199964727.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter discusses how globalization through the mechanism of neoliberalization shapes spaces, places, and identities. It is argued that a “decolonial perspective” on Euro-American psychology ...
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This chapter discusses how globalization through the mechanism of neoliberalization shapes spaces, places, and identities. It is argued that a “decolonial perspective” on Euro-American psychology provides specific conceptual frameworks to excavate its cultural origins; allows the colonial and postcolonial structure of the discipline to be analyzed through the lens of history, identity, power, and culture; and highlights the ways in which the Euro-American version of psychology is exported, reiterated, and reproduced in the era of neoliberal and global capitalism. The chapter contextualizes and clarifies the larger aims of the book by embedding them within the interrelated theoretical frameworks of culture, narrative, and identity. It explains in detail how globalization as a discourse creates asymmetrical and hybrid narratives among urban Indian youth culture.Less
This chapter discusses how globalization through the mechanism of neoliberalization shapes spaces, places, and identities. It is argued that a “decolonial perspective” on Euro-American psychology provides specific conceptual frameworks to excavate its cultural origins; allows the colonial and postcolonial structure of the discipline to be analyzed through the lens of history, identity, power, and culture; and highlights the ways in which the Euro-American version of psychology is exported, reiterated, and reproduced in the era of neoliberal and global capitalism. The chapter contextualizes and clarifies the larger aims of the book by embedding them within the interrelated theoretical frameworks of culture, narrative, and identity. It explains in detail how globalization as a discourse creates asymmetrical and hybrid narratives among urban Indian youth culture.
Lisa Surwillo
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780804788793
- eISBN:
- 9780804791830
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804788793.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
In 1808, the transatlantic slave trade began its transformation from a legal to an illegal enterprise. Although Spain signed a series of treaties outlawing the slave trade in the first third of the ...
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In 1808, the transatlantic slave trade began its transformation from a legal to an illegal enterprise. Although Spain signed a series of treaties outlawing the slave trade in the first third of the nineteenth century, it brought more men and women from Africa to Cuba as slaves between 1808 and 1865 than it had to all of Spanish America during the previous three hundred years. The Spanish population living in the metropolis was not ignorant of their nation’s slaving practices that fueled the sugar boom that financed liberal Spain’s modernization. Spain was-and remains-conflicted over its transgression of international law. Through a literary analysis of works from key historical moments across two hundred years, Monsters by Trade traces shifting anxieties over the transformation of Spain into a slave-trader nation, formed financially and ideologically by its morally corrupt slave economy in Cuba and condemned by all other Atlantic powers. The book thus expands our present consideration of modern empire, while previous work on this period has mostly focused on Spain’s loss of territory in the first and last years of the nineteenth century, rather than examining how the empire was sustained and, in fact, thrived. Indeed, most considerations of modern empire exclude Spain altogether.Less
In 1808, the transatlantic slave trade began its transformation from a legal to an illegal enterprise. Although Spain signed a series of treaties outlawing the slave trade in the first third of the nineteenth century, it brought more men and women from Africa to Cuba as slaves between 1808 and 1865 than it had to all of Spanish America during the previous three hundred years. The Spanish population living in the metropolis was not ignorant of their nation’s slaving practices that fueled the sugar boom that financed liberal Spain’s modernization. Spain was-and remains-conflicted over its transgression of international law. Through a literary analysis of works from key historical moments across two hundred years, Monsters by Trade traces shifting anxieties over the transformation of Spain into a slave-trader nation, formed financially and ideologically by its morally corrupt slave economy in Cuba and condemned by all other Atlantic powers. The book thus expands our present consideration of modern empire, while previous work on this period has mostly focused on Spain’s loss of territory in the first and last years of the nineteenth century, rather than examining how the empire was sustained and, in fact, thrived. Indeed, most considerations of modern empire exclude Spain altogether.
Susan Stanford Friedman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231170901
- eISBN:
- 9780231539470
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231170901.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
The chapter calls for a planetary approach to modernist studies through the millennia; adapting cubist multi-perspectivism and Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” the chapter ...
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The chapter calls for a planetary approach to modernist studies through the millennia; adapting cubist multi-perspectivism and Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” the chapter offers thirteen ways of approaching the question of modernity/modernism, notes the increasing transnational expansion of the field, and acknowledges the anxiety and institutional questions this expansion creates. It suggests a provisional, relational definition of modernity that recognizes its relation to empire and conquest and its convergence of rapid change and rupture across all domains of society. It argues against the conventional notions of modernity as either progress or dissolution, proposing instead that the contradictory core of all modernities combine both utopian and dystopian dimensions. The chapter also offers four strategies for reading planetary modernisms: re-vision (rethinking the conventional canon from a planetary perspective), archaeology (discovering forgotten or new instances), circulation (tracing the planetary travels and networks of modernities/modernisms), collage (radical juxtaposition of different modernities/modernisms).Less
The chapter calls for a planetary approach to modernist studies through the millennia; adapting cubist multi-perspectivism and Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” the chapter offers thirteen ways of approaching the question of modernity/modernism, notes the increasing transnational expansion of the field, and acknowledges the anxiety and institutional questions this expansion creates. It suggests a provisional, relational definition of modernity that recognizes its relation to empire and conquest and its convergence of rapid change and rupture across all domains of society. It argues against the conventional notions of modernity as either progress or dissolution, proposing instead that the contradictory core of all modernities combine both utopian and dystopian dimensions. The chapter also offers four strategies for reading planetary modernisms: re-vision (rethinking the conventional canon from a planetary perspective), archaeology (discovering forgotten or new instances), circulation (tracing the planetary travels and networks of modernities/modernisms), collage (radical juxtaposition of different modernities/modernisms).
Francisco Fernández de Alba
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620252
- eISBN:
- 9781789623857
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620252.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
“Transatlantic Coloniality” focuses on the work of Wifredo Lam and Virgilio Piñera to explore the construction of a national Cuban cannon in the 40s. From the perspective of Transatlantic Studies, ...
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“Transatlantic Coloniality” focuses on the work of Wifredo Lam and Virgilio Piñera to explore the construction of a national Cuban cannon in the 40s. From the perspective of Transatlantic Studies, the development of Cuban arts illustrates the dynamic tensions between those seeking to build Cuban national arts emerging from a whitewashed colonial past and those cosmopolitans, such as Lam and Piñera, emphasizing popular and Afro-Caribbean culture. Colonial discourses were, in both cases, at the center of the struggle to establish and consolidate the Cuban arts. Absorbed and integrated in one case as a historical foundation, it was critically questioned by Lam and Piñera.Less
“Transatlantic Coloniality” focuses on the work of Wifredo Lam and Virgilio Piñera to explore the construction of a national Cuban cannon in the 40s. From the perspective of Transatlantic Studies, the development of Cuban arts illustrates the dynamic tensions between those seeking to build Cuban national arts emerging from a whitewashed colonial past and those cosmopolitans, such as Lam and Piñera, emphasizing popular and Afro-Caribbean culture. Colonial discourses were, in both cases, at the center of the struggle to establish and consolidate the Cuban arts. Absorbed and integrated in one case as a historical foundation, it was critically questioned by Lam and Piñera.
Joseph Drexler-Dreis
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823281886
- eISBN:
- 9780823286003
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823281886.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
The second chapter investigates the link between Christian thought and the historical matrix decolonial thinkers have theorized as the coloniality of power. In light of the historical theory of ...
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The second chapter investigates the link between Christian thought and the historical matrix decolonial thinkers have theorized as the coloniality of power. In light of the historical theory of coloniality and Christian theology’s entanglement in coloniality, this chapter opens up options for what decolonization might look like within theological reflection. This chapter begins with the task of considering the place of Christian theology within the coloniality of power. It then moves to offering possibilities for decolonizing descriptive statements of the human person, ways of knowing, and eschatological imaginations, and introduces the concept of decolonial love by engaging the way Chela Sandoval has used this term. Introducing these options leads to a threshold question for thinking from a Christian theological perspective within a decolonial project: Can members of communities that have been rendered nonpersons through various manifestations of the coloniality of power think and speak theologically on their own terms?Less
The second chapter investigates the link between Christian thought and the historical matrix decolonial thinkers have theorized as the coloniality of power. In light of the historical theory of coloniality and Christian theology’s entanglement in coloniality, this chapter opens up options for what decolonization might look like within theological reflection. This chapter begins with the task of considering the place of Christian theology within the coloniality of power. It then moves to offering possibilities for decolonizing descriptive statements of the human person, ways of knowing, and eschatological imaginations, and introduces the concept of decolonial love by engaging the way Chela Sandoval has used this term. Introducing these options leads to a threshold question for thinking from a Christian theological perspective within a decolonial project: Can members of communities that have been rendered nonpersons through various manifestations of the coloniality of power think and speak theologically on their own terms?
Atalia Omer
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226615912
- eISBN:
- 9780226616100
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226616100.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter asks how the examination of American Jewish Palestine solidarity activists' processes of re-imagining Jewishness contributes to the broader study of religion, violence, and the practices ...
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This chapter asks how the examination of American Jewish Palestine solidarity activists' processes of re-imagining Jewishness contributes to the broader study of religion, violence, and the practices of peace. The chapter argues that the case study pushes the boundaries of the field by foregrounding processes of unlearning and critique as sites of research and praxis. This requires disabusing the field of its inclination to abstract "religion" from race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and other realities, an abstraction that is itself a product of coloniality. Accordingly, the chapter illuminates how the arguments threaded throughout the book exemplify the peacebuilding and transformative potential attention to discursive and epistemological violence generate. This constitutes a departure from the conventional focus of the field of religion, conflict, and peace on direct violence. The chapter also places American non- or post-Zionism in tension with settlers' post-Zionism as well as Mizrahi Israeli intersectional re-imagining through its own critical caretaking of the relation of Jews to the Middle East and Palestine/Israel specifically. The Mizrahi-Palestinian intersectional lens offers a challenge to American post- and non-Zionist diasporism's devaluation of Zion. The chapter illuminates narratives, stories and humanistic inquiry as critical for peacebuilding.Less
This chapter asks how the examination of American Jewish Palestine solidarity activists' processes of re-imagining Jewishness contributes to the broader study of religion, violence, and the practices of peace. The chapter argues that the case study pushes the boundaries of the field by foregrounding processes of unlearning and critique as sites of research and praxis. This requires disabusing the field of its inclination to abstract "religion" from race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and other realities, an abstraction that is itself a product of coloniality. Accordingly, the chapter illuminates how the arguments threaded throughout the book exemplify the peacebuilding and transformative potential attention to discursive and epistemological violence generate. This constitutes a departure from the conventional focus of the field of religion, conflict, and peace on direct violence. The chapter also places American non- or post-Zionism in tension with settlers' post-Zionism as well as Mizrahi Israeli intersectional re-imagining through its own critical caretaking of the relation of Jews to the Middle East and Palestine/Israel specifically. The Mizrahi-Palestinian intersectional lens offers a challenge to American post- and non-Zionist diasporism's devaluation of Zion. The chapter illuminates narratives, stories and humanistic inquiry as critical for peacebuilding.
