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Smashing the Imperial Frame: Race, Culture, (De)Coloniality.
- Source :
- Theory, Culture & Society; Jan2020, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p113-145, 33p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Extending the philosopher Achille Mbembe's notion of the 'seeing power of race' in Critique of Black Reason, this paper explores the imperial frame – a racialized and racializing vision of singularity/alterity – that was foundational to European modernity and the formation of the modern world. I intend to show how the racialized have always articulated an otherwise for cultivating a humane relationship with difference, an unconditional relationship with humanity, through (knowingly or unknowingly) putting the rhetoric of modernity/coloniality on trial. Interweaving a discussion of the 2014 Jordanian film Theeb (trans: Wolf) – our decolonial text – I propose a framework, a series of commitments for a culture decolonized: to time as (re)enchanted and emerging; space as pluriversal and planetary; and self as the guarantor for the Other's share. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RACIALIZATION
UNIQUENESS (Philosophy)
MODERNITY
HUMANITY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02632764
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Theory, Culture & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 140311815
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276419877674