Nayar, Jayan (2020) Returning the anti-colonial to philosophy. In: Paliwala, Abdul and Adelman, Sam, (eds.) Beyond Law and Development: Resistance, Empowerment and Social Injustice. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 9781138300323

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This essay presents a view of thinking – of the doing of philosophy - as a praxis of anti-colonial encounter. Through this perspective of encounter we bring to view the opposition between the two locations of being-thinking corresponding to the two actualities described above: 1) the (post)colonial location from which are (re)presented and enforced (b)orders of subjectification; 2) the anti-colonial locations from which are confronted frontlines of desubjectification. This counterposing of the (post)colonial border and the anti-colonial frontline serves to demarcate the (post)colonial and anti-colonial as incommensurable philosophical orientations as they stand in enunciative and interpretive confrontation; what this reveals is the function of the “post-colonial” as a discursive category which operates to normalise the (b)orders of contemporary global coloniality. As such, to think from anti-colonial frontlines is to repudiate the assumptions of author-ity inherent in colonial philosophies that continue to organise and narrate the post-colonial World as a (b)ordered totality. From this re-appropriation of philosophical author-ity we might affirm the many insurgent struggles for the material transformation of worlds as indeed continuing the legacy of anti-colonial hope and imagination – to ‘be-otherwise’ – in the face of (post)colonial closure.

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JX International law
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Publisher:	Routledge
Place of Publication:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY
ISBN:	9781138300323
Book Title:	Beyond Law and Development: Resistance, Empowerment and Social Injustice
Editor:	Paliwala, Abdul and Adelman, Sam
Official Date:	2020
Dates:	Date Event 2020 Available
Date of first compliant deposit:	9 August 2019
Number of Pages:	224
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Forthcoming
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
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