Research Catalog

Title

The politics of time : imagining African becomings / edited by Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr ; translated by Philip Gerard.

Author

Ateliers de la pensée (2nd : 2017 : Dakar, Senegal), issuing body.

Publication

• Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mbembe, Achille, 1957-
• Sarr, Felwine, 1972-
• Gerard, Philip
• Diagne, Souleymane Bachir
• Bentouhami, Hourya

Description

xi, 332 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"...In November 2017, the second session of the Ateliers de la penše - Workshops of Thought - was held in Dakar, Senegal. Fifty African and diasporic intellectuals and artists participated and their debates unfolded along numerous thematic lines, approached from the standpoints of many different disciplines. This volume is the result of that encounter. Among the many topics discussed were the concurrence and entanglement of multiple temporalities, the politics of life in the Anthropocene, the project of decolonization, and the preservation and transmission of different ways of knowing. At a time when the world is haunted by the specter of its own end, the contributors to this volume ask whether one can, by taking Africa as a point of departure, seize hold of other options for the future - not only for Africa, but for the world. The Politics of Time and its companion volume, To Write the Africa World, will be indispensable works for anyone interested in Africa - its past, present, and future - and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South." --

Series Statement

Critical South

Uniform Title

• Politique des temps. English
• Critical South.

Alternative Title

Politique des temps.

Subject

• Time > Political aspects > Congresses
• Political science > Congresses
• Intellectual life
• Political science
• Time
• Time > Political aspects
• Economic policy
• Politics and government
• Diplomatic relations
• Africa > Intellectual life > Congresses
• Africa > Economic policy > Congresses
• Africa > Politics and government > Congresses
• Africa > Foreign relations > Congresses
• Africa

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Papers based on Ateliers de la pensée -- Workshops of thought, held in Dakar, Senegal, 2017.
• Originally published in French as "Politique des temps" by Editions Jimsaan, 2019.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr -- From Thinking Identity to Thinking African Becomings / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Notes for a Maroon Feminism : From the 'Body Double' to the Body as such / Hourya Bentouhami -- Weaving, A Craft for Thought : Writing and Thinking in Africa, or the Knot of the World's Great Narrative / Jean-Luc Raharimanana -- Africa and the New Western Figures of Personal Status Law / Abdoul Aziz Diouf -- Rethinking Islam : Or, the Oxymoron of "Secular Theocracy" / Rachid Id Yassine -- The Impossible Meeting : A Free Interpretation of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace / Hemley Boum -- Circulations / Achille Mbembe -- On the Return : The Political Practices of the African Diaspora / Nadia Yala Kisukidi -- Reopening Futures / Felwine Sarr -- Un/learning : Rethinking Teaching in Africa / Fraṅoise Verg̈s -- The Bewitchment of History: Mohammed Dib's Who Remembers the Sea / Soraya Tlatli -- Currency, Sovereignty, Development : Revisiting the Question of the CFA Franc / Ndongo Samba Sylla -- Memories of the World, Memory-World / Šverine Kodjo-Grandvaux -- Cum patior Africa: The Political Production of Regimes of 'the Nigh' / Nadine Machikou -- The Sahara: A Space of Connection within an Emergent Africa : From the Anthropocene to the Spring of Geo-Cultural Life / Benaouda Lebdai -- Migrations, Narrations, the Refugee Condition / Dominic Thomas -- Humanity and Animality: (Re)thinking Anthropocentrism / Bado Ndoye -- The Tree Frogs' Distress / Lionel Manga -- To Speak and Betray Nothing? / Rodney Saint-⁹loi -- The Paths of the Voice / Ibrahima Wane.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-3594

ISBN

• 9781509551095
• 1509551093

OCLC

1306523593

Conference

Ateliers de la pensée (2nd : 2017 : Dakar, Senegal), issuing body.

Title

The politics of time : imagining African becomings / edited by Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr ; translated by Philip Gerard.

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

English edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical South

Critical South.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mbembe, Achille, 1957- editor.

Sarr, Felwine, 1972- editor.

Gerard, Philip, translator.

Diagne, Souleymane Bachir, contributor.

Bentouhami, Hourya, contributor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-3594