Anjana Raghavan

Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism (eBook, PDF)

Performing Decolonial Solidarities

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An articulation of any kind of global understanding of belonging, or ways of cosmopolitan life, requires a constant engagement with vulnerability, especially in a world that is so deeply wounded by subjugation, colonialisms and genocides. And yet discussion of the body, affect and corporeal politics from the margins are noticeably absent from contemporary liberal and Kantian models of cosmopolitan thought. This book explores the ways in which existing narratives of cosmopolitanism are often organised around European and American discourses of human rights and universalism, which allow little room for the articulation of an affective, embodied and subaltern politics. It brings contemporary understandings of cosmopolitan solidarities into dialogue with the body, affect and the persistent spectre of colonial difference. Race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender are all extremely important to these articulations of cosmopolitan belongings, and we cannot really speak of communities without speaking of embodiment and emotion. This text envisions new ways of articulating and conceptualising 'corporeal cosmopolitanism' which are neither restricted to a purely postcolonial paradigm, nor subjugated by European colonialism and modernity. It challenges the understanding of liberal cosmopolitan solidarities using decolonial, and feminist performances of solidarity as radical compassion, resistance, and love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881864309
• Artikelnr.: 74399425

Autorenporträt

Anjana Raghavan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Incanting the body into the Political
1. Locating Corporeal Cosmopolitanism: Theoretical Vicissitudes
2. The Anatomy of Abjection: Understanding Exclusion, Corporeality, and Emotions
3. Occluded Rainbows: Queerness and Cosmopolitan Solidarity in India
4. Are Dispossessed Bodies Human? Gender, Exile, and Cosmopolitan Solidarity
5. Love in the Time of Corporeal Cosmopolitanism
6. Conclusion: Incanting the Political into the Body
Index