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Nayar, Jayan (2022) Returning the anti-colonial to philosophy. In: Adelman, Sam and Paliwala, Abdul, (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.
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| Subjects: | A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JX International law |
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| 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: | Adelman, Sam and Paliwala, Abdul | ||||
| Official Date: | 28 April 2022 | ||||
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| Number of Pages: | 224 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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