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E-book Unthinking Mastery : Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

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Across anticolonial discourse the mastery of the colonizer over the colo-nies was a practice that was explicitly disavowed, and yet, in their efforts to decolonize, anticolonial thinkers in turn advocated practices of mas-tery—corporeal, linguistic, and intellectual—toward their own liberation. Within anticolonial movements, practices of countermastery were aimed explicitly at defeating colonial mastery, in effect pitting mastery against mastery toward the production of thoroughly decolonized subjectivities. For thinkers as diverse as Mohandas K. Gandhi and Frantz Fanon—key players in the first two chapters of this book—decolonization was an act of undoing colonial mastery by producing new masterful subjects. I argue that this discourse of anticolonialism, which was geared toward the future, did not interrogate thoroughly enough its own masterful engagements. It did not dwell enough, in other words, on how its complex entangle-ments with mastery would come to resonate in the postcolonial future it so passionately anticipated. Precisely because mastery served as a motive for revolutionary action and as an antidote for colonial domination, it is a vital site from which to analyze the work of mastery in “globalized” life today. Through discourses of decolonization that have sought to undo the dynam-ics of colonial mastery, we can begin to understand how pervasive and in-timately ingrained mastery is in the fabric of modern thought, subjectivity, and politics. The task of this book is to begin—simply to begin—to trace some of the desires and aims of mastery across decolonization movements of the twentieth century through the intimately sutured discourses of anti-colonialism and postcolonialism. My desire is to engage with revolutionary and literary texts in ways that can reorient our masterful pursuits, ones that characterize global relations and continue to threaten our survival. The outright repudiations and reinscriptions of mastery across anticolonial and postcolonial discourses are vital places from which we can begin to address how drives toward mastery inform and underlie the major crises of our times—acts of intrahuman violence across the globe, the radical disparities in resources and rights between the Global North and Global South, innu-merable forms of human and nonhuman extinction, and escalating threats of ecological disaster.For anticolonial thinkers, engaging the logic of mastery that had long since governed over the colonies was critical to restoring a full sense of humanity to the colonized subject, to building a thoroughly decolonized postcolonial nation-state, and to envisioning less coercive futures among human collectivities.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

325.32 SIN u

Penerbit

New York : Duke University Press., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

217 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780822372363

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325.32

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Imperialism

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