Planetary longings / Mary Louise Pratt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pratt, Mary Louise, 1948- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Dissident acts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--Latin America.

Decolonization.

Postcolonialism--Latin America.

Postcolonialism.

Latin America--Civilization.

Latin America.

Latin America--Colonization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"In Planetary Longings leading postcolonial theorist and Latin American scholar Mary Louise Pratt writes from the conviction that the turn of the millennium-the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty first-have marked a turning point in the human and planetary condition. The millennial pivot has called for new modes of imagining and knowledge-making, and has mobilized an array of planetarized processes, forces, and aspirations, which this book contemplates from the geohistorical terrain of the Americas. Planetary Longings studies the planetarized forces of coloniality, decolonization, and indigeneity in their pre- and post-millennial forms. A series of case studies traces the permutations of coloniality from eighteenth-century Andean colonial documents, to nineteenth-century narrative, through to twentieth-century ethnography and testimonio, and twenty-first-century film. The book likewise tracks the workings of anti-colonial and decolonizing forces from eighteenth-century rebellions through nineteenth- and-twentieth-century independence struggles to contemporary indigenous mobilizations and decolonial activism. It takes particular interest in the speculative, futurological dimensions of such projects. Indigeneity is a key through line in the book. In its newly planetarized mode, it ties together the triple catastrophe of coloniality, neoliberal extractivism, and ecological devastation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Modernity's false promises

Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles

Mobility and the politics of belonging

Fire, water, and wandering women : apocalyptic fictions

Planetarizing indigeneity

Anthropocene as concept and chronotope

Mutations of the contact zone : human to more-than-human

Is this Gitmo or Club Med?

Authoritarianism 2020 : lessons from Chile

The ethnographer's arrival

Rigoberta Menchú and the geopolitics of truth

"Even the rain" and the politics of re-enactment

Translation, contagion, infiltration

Thinking across the colonial divide

The futurology of independence

Remembering anticolonialism.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Pratt, Mary Louise, 1948- Planetary longings.

ISBN:

9781478022909

1478022906

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.