Decolonising Political Concepts.

• Superior document: Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms Series
• Author: Clavé-Mercier, Valentin.
• TeilnehmendeR: Wuth, Marie.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; {copy}2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (329 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Cover Page -- Half Title page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface: We Shall Dance Better -- References -- At the Crossroads of Coloniality, Power, and Knowledge: It Is Time to Decolonise Political Concepts -- Decolonial Theory, Political Concepts, and the Ideological West -- Searching for a More Habitable Place: Decolonising Political Concepts -- Concepts beyond Borders -- Moving Sideways, Looking Forward -- Notes -- References -- Part I Decolonial Horizons: Revealing the Coloniality of Knowledge and Power -- 1 Historicising History: A Critique Enabling View of History -- Models of Historiography -- The Empirical Model -- The Constructivist Model -- The Postmodern Historiographic Model and the Charge of Relativism -- Social Conditions and Contingency -- Social Conditions as Conditions of Possibility of Historical Knowledge -- Objectivity in Historical Explanation and General Prescription -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Recalcitrance of White Ignorance -- Introduction -- White Ignorance and the Causal Role of Race -- Conception and Perception -- Memory and Testimony -- A Recalcitrant Ignorance -- Motivational Group Interest -- Affective Aspects of White Ignorance -- Affective Numbness -- White Ignorance as an Embodied Unconscious Habit -- Beyond Beliefs -- Recalcitrant Habits and White Narcissism -- The Emotions of Oppressors as Seen by the Oppressed -- Projective Mechanisms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Idealised Subject of Freedom and the Refugee -- Introduction -- Freedom and National Citizenship -- The Anomaly of the Paradigm -- Humanitarian Approach -- The Arendtian Critique -- Freedom and (Non)-subjectivity -- Refugees' (Non)-subjectivity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Feeling Coloniality: Bodies, Sexuality, and Agency.

4 Politics without a Proper Locus: Political Agency between Action and Practice -- Introduction: Smoke Onstage -- Arendt Experiences Loss -- Politics and Action as an Answer to Loss -- Arendt's Misrecognition -- What Is Practice? -- How Can Action and Practice Still Relate to One Another? -- The Domain of the Senses -- Notes -- References -- 5 Enfleshed Political Violences: Rethinking Sexual Violence from a Decolonial Critique to the Political Construction of the Body as Flesh -- Coloniality of Gender and the Mark of the Human -- The Depoliticisation of the Private -- Theorising the Flesh -- (In)Defensible: Sexual Violence and the Imperial Economy of Violence -- Conclusion: Violence, Sex, and Politics in the Paradigm of the Flesh -- References -- Part III Subverting Coloniality: Decolonising the Language of Resistance -- 6 The Politics of Language in Anti-authoritarian Political Practice: The Southern Mediterranean Case -- Introduction -- Translation as a Political Practice of Anarchism -- Anarchist Knowledge Production in a Postcolonial Context -- The Language Politics of Anti-authoritarian Practice in Lebanon and Morocco -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Decolonising Sovereignty and Reimagining Autonomy: Adivasi Assertions and Interpretations of Law -- Prologue: A Story from Forests -- Contextualising the Debate -- The Difficulties of Discourse: Asserting Dominance and Precluding Alternatives -- Forging Horizontal Relationships -- Multiple Autonomies and Shared Sovereignties under the Indian Constitution -- Autonomies as Self-Determination under the Indian Constitution -- The Constitutional Scheme of Shared Sovereignties over Land and Resources -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 8 Indigeneity, Autochthony, and Belonging: Conceptual Ambiguity as an Impediment to Decolonisation in South Africa -- Introduction.

Etic-critical Articulations of Indigeneity -- Etic-analytical Articulations of Indigeneity -- Emic Articulations of Indigeneity -- Belonging and Conflicting Logics of Autochthony -- Towards more Inclusive Decolonisation? -- Notes -- References -- Afterword -- References -- Index.