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Item Details
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CREOLIZING POLITICAL THEORY
READING ROUSSEAU THROUGH FANON |
| By: |
Jane Anna Gordon |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£21.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0823254844 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780823254842 |
| Publisher: |
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 February, 2014 |
| Series: |
Just Ideas |
| Pages: |
312 |
| Description: |
Asking whether it is possible to develop an approach to studying political life that reflects its heterogeneity, Jane Anna Gordon offers the creolization of political theory as a response. Offering a critique of mere comparison, Gordon demonstrates the generative capacity of creolization through bringing together across time and place the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Frantz Fanon. |
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Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political locations they both seek to call "home."Unlike multiculturalism, in which different cultures are thought to co-exist relatively separately, creolization describes how people reinterpret themselves through interaction with one another. While indebted to comparative political theory, Gordon offers a critique of comparison by demonstrating the generative capacity of creolizing methodologies. She does so by bringing together the eighteenth-century revolutionary Swiss thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the twentieth-century Martinican-born Algerian liberationist Frantz Fanon. While both provocatively challenged whether we can study the world in ways that do not duplicate the prejudices that sustain its inequalities, Fanon, she argues, outlined a vision of how to bring into being the democratically legitimate alternatives that Rousseau mainly imagined. |
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US |
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Fordham University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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