- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 294 pages)
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Just ideas
- Uniform Title
- Creolizing political theory (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Creolizing political theory (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Delegitimating Decadent Discourses of Inquiry -- 2. Decolonizing Disciplinary Methods -- 3. Squaring the Circle: Rousseau's General Will -- 4. Creolizing the General Will: Fanonian National Consciousness -- 5. Thinking through Creolization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
- LCCN
- 2013019537
- OCLC
- ssj0001184576
- Author
Gordon, Jane Anna, 1976-
- Title
Creolizing political theory [electronic resource] : reading Rousseau through Fanon / Jane Anna Gordon.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Edition
First edition.
- Series
Just ideas
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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