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Creolizing Political Theory - Reading Rousseau through Fanon (Paperback)
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Creolizing Political Theory - Reading Rousseau through Fanon (Paperback)
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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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