Creolizing Political Theory : Reading Rousseau through Fanon / Jane Anna Gordon.
Gordon, Jane Anna, author.
2014
JC179.R9 G67 2014
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Title Creolizing Political Theory : Reading Rousseau through Fanon / Jane Anna Gordon.
Author Gordon, Jane Anna, author.
ISBN 9780823254842
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823254842
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (312 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823254842 doi
Call Number JC179.R9 G67 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.01
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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Delegitimating Decadent Inquiry
2. Decolonizing Disciplinary Methods
3. Rousseau's General Will
4. Fanonian National Consciousness
5. Thinking Through Creolization
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

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