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Planetary Longings (Paperback): Mary Louise Pratt

Planetary Longings (Paperback)

Mary Louise Pratt

Series: Dissident Acts

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In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the millennial turn in relation to environmental disaster and to the new forms of thinking it has catalyzed. She turns to 1990s Latin American vernacular culture, literary fiction, and social movements, which simultaneously registered neoliberalism's devastating effects and pursued alternate ways of knowing and living. Tracing the workings of colonialism alongside the history of anticolonial struggles and Indigenous mobilizations in the Americas, Pratt analyzes indigeneity both as a key index of coloniality, neoliberal extraction, and ecological destruction, and as a source for alternative modes of thought and being. Ultimately, Pratt demonstrates that the changes on either side of the millennium have catalyzed new forms of world-making and knowledge-making in the face of an unknowable and catastrophic future.

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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Dissident Acts
Release date: April 2022
First published: 2022
Authors: Mary Louise Pratt
Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1829-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > History > American history > General
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LSN: 1-4780-1829-1
Barcode: 9781478018292

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