Jane Anna Gordon 
Creolizing Political Theory [EPUB ebook] 
Reading Rousseau through Fanon

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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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Jane Anna Gordon teaches Political Science and African-American Studies at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 312 ● ISBN 9780823254835 ● File size 1.1 MB ● Publisher Fordham University Press ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4848236 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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