TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.1515/9780823254842
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Creolizing Political Theory :Reading Rousseau through Fanon /
AU  - Gordon, Jane Anna, 
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
CN  - JC179.R9
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1477598
KW  - General will.
KW  - Legitimacy of governments.
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy & Theory.
KW  - Political Science.
KW  - Race & Ethnic Studies.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
KW  - Creolization.
KW  - Fanon.
KW  - Rousseau.
KW  - alternative methodologies.
KW  - colonization.
KW  - comparative political theory.
KW  - decolonization.
KW  - democratic legitimacy.
KW  - national consciousness.
KW  - revolution.
KW  - the general will.
SN  - 9780823254842
TI  - Creolizing Political Theory :Reading Rousseau through Fanon /
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