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Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship : Contexts, Perspectives, and Debates.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farid Alatas, Syed.
- Series:
- Decolonization and Social Worlds Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This volume brings together key scholars from across the globe to explore anti-colonial and anti-imperial perspectives to help transform our ways of the looking at the world.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship: Contexts, Perspectives, and Debates
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship: An Introduction
- The context
- Perspectives and debates
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- 2 Anti-Colonial Theory as a Peripheral Gaze
- Introduction
- The peripheral gaze
- Anti-colonial social theory: the first steps
- Anti-colonial social theory: its reformulations in Africa, Asia and Latin America
- Subalternity
- Endogeneity and extraversion
- Coloniality of power
- Anti-colonial social theory: the shift to North America
- Postcolonialism
- Modernity/decoloniality
- Notes
- 3 The Meanings of Anti-Colonial Social Thought and Theory
- A definition of anti-colonial social thought
- The varieties of anti-colonial social thought
- Trade colonialism
- Exploitation colonialism
- Settler-colonialism
- Semi-colonialism
- Internal colonialism
- The dimensions of anti-colonial thought
- Anti-colonial thought: from the normative to the positive
- Anti-colonial thought among the colonizers
- Anti-colonial thought among the colonized during the colonial period
- Anti-colonial thought during the postcolonial period
- Anti-colonial thought against subjective colonial realities
- Anti-colonial thought against the objective dimensions of colonial society
- Anti-colonial thought directed against contemporary colonialism
- Anti-coloniality
- 4 The Promise of Anticolonial Social Theory
- The imperial standpoint and social theory
- The anticolonial standpoint
- Beyond geoepistemic essentialism
- From the particular to the general.
- Conclusion
- 5 Anticolonial Scholarship and the Politics of Location: Can Social Theory be Truly Democratic and Truly Global?
- A brief history of the politics of location
- The uses of a politics of location (without guarantees) for anticolonial theory
- The politics of location unmasks material and social inequalities
- The politics of location exposes conflicting goals
- Theory
- Pedagogy
- Policy
- Argument and implications
- Conclusion: Global theory after the 'Ivy Intifada'
- 6 Decolonial Dialectics in an Inter-Imperial World
- The inter-imperial political economy and the historical dialectics of struggle
- Sites of struggle: infrastructural, institutional, dialectical
- Reproducing empires: intersectional sites of struggle
- Time, labour, and coevality
- The re-worlding arts
- 7 Anti-Colonial Planetary Struggle: History, Humans, and Us
- History
- Humans
- Milieus of human life
- Us
- Coda
- 8 Theorizing Hong Kong: From Colonial Collaboration to Inter-Imperial Zone
- Theorizing Hong Kong: historical and sociological perspectives
- Collaboration and coloniality in the formation of Hong Kong society
- Between empires: negotiated autonomy of the Hong Kong elites
- Straddling late colonial Hong Kong and US-led global capitalism
- Rise of China and the postcolonial condition of Hong Kong
- From colonial Hong Kong to maritime Asia: mapping the inter-imperial zone
- Re-orienting inter-imperiality: Asia before Europe in the world system
- Spatial-temporal extension: commonalities and continuity of the Asian inter-imperial zone
- Dialectical imagination: from contention to virtuality and conviviality
- References.
- 9 Humanizing Legacies of Caribbean Slavery and Colonialism in the Contemporary UK
- Recursive racist violence: contemporary everyday colonialism and anticolonialism
- The relevance of anticolonial scholarship to the contemporary everyday: Brexit
- A psychosocial approach to anticolonial scholarship
- Dehumanizing and the 'Windrush scandal' in the UK
- 10 The Horrors of Settler-Colonialism: Remote Sites of Refugee Detention in Australia's Carceral Archipelago
- Australia as an immigration nation and exceptionalism towards refugee arrivals
- An overview of refugee detention by the Australian state
- Contributions of refugee thinkers to anticolonial thought
- A visit to Manus Island and Manus Prison
- Manus Prison Theory
- Other creative works that contribute to anticolonial thought
- 11 Sociology Besides Modernity? Ontoformative Gestures and Anti-Colonial Theories
- An invitation to anti-colonial theory debate
- Ontology in the theory
- Ontoformativity and the problem of dependent ontologies
- The ontoformative gesture
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-4554-0
- 9781529245547
- OCLC:
- 1547900410
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