Télécharger le livre :  We, the Decolonized

We, the Decolonized is a passionate reflection on the pitfalls of the decolonial venture in postcolonial countries, with particular reference to North Africa. Hélé Béji shows that in many formerly colonized countries, the reality of independence took the form of elusive...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-05-06
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Spheres of Insurrection

As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its grip on the world, it refines the micropolitics proper to the capitalist system and makes it more perverse. This micropolitics involves the appropriation – what Suely Rolnik calls the “pimping” – of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-02-03
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Texturing Difference

This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonization. It argues that the Black Consciousness Movement, in addition to its urgent political focus,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-12-03
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Toussaint Louverture

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue – a slave revolt against French colonial rule that led to the founding of the independent republic of Haiti. ...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-18
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  The War Against Women

Recent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has given way to a violent surge that is...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences

Arabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret his Muqaddimah (‘Prolegomenon’), written in 1377, as the point at which the new social sciences emerged. They identify Ibn Khaldun’s...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-10-16
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  On Tropical Grounds

On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-10-11
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  The Caribbean Race Reader

This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, lines of inquiry, and theories around race and racism that have emerged out of the Caribbean from the beginning of European...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-11
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act

Foreword by Lanie MillarThis book is a collection of essays and speeches by Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist and one of Africa’s most important 20th century intellectuals.  His writings think through the task...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-07-09
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Ancestral Future

Introduction by Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Alex BrostoffIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the power of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-17
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  To Write the Africa World

In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world....
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-12-01
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Fugitive, Where Are You Running?

Hunting stories will usually glorify the hunters, since it is the hunters who write the stories. In this book, Dénètem Touam Bona takes up the perspective of the hunted, using the concept of marronage to highlight the lives and creativity of colonized and subjugated...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-12-01
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Time

As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this:...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-11-30
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  The Scent of the Father

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-11-09
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Undoing Apartheid

Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system of 'petty apartheid', which controlled the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-27
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  From Ashes to Text

According to some chronicles of the Spanish Conquest, the violent arrival of the Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the dominant European cisheteropatriarchal model being burned at the stake. This act burned...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-08-31
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonial Ecology

The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-11-11
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Black is the Journey, Africana the Name

In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-23
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Error, Illusion, Madness

This book makes available in English the work of one of the most important Brazilian philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. First published in 2004, Error, Illusion, Madness is an original contribution to the debate about the nature and role of the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-03-11
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Colonial Trauma

Colonial Trauma is a path-breaking account of the psychosocial effects of colonial domination. Following the work of Frantz Fanon, Lazali draws on historical materials as well as her own clinical experience as a psychoanalyst to shed new light on the ways in which the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-01-22
Collection : Critical South
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