Description: Creolizing Political Theory : Reading Rousseau Through Fanon, Hardcover by Gordon, Jane Anna, ISBN 082325481X, ISBN-13 9780823254811, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 critiqueof 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 liberationistFrantz 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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Book Title: Creolizing Political Theory : Reading Rousseau Through Fanon
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Topic: Mind & Body, European / French, Social Scientists & Psychologists, History & Theory, Political, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1.1 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Author: Jane Anna Gordon
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Book Series: Just Ideas Ser.
Format: Hardcover
