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.