Prologue: we shall dance better
Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar (2023) Prologue: we shall dance better. In: Clave-Mercier, V. and Wuth, M. (eds.) Decolonising Political Concepts. Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms. Abingdon, UK and New York, U.S.: Routledge, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781032275918.
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Abstract
An introductory prologue to the anthology Decolonising Political Concepts, this piece argues that the decolonial turn was not intended as a sociological type but as a combative intervention to explode the framework within which the political and social sciences as well as the humanist arts of law, visuality, and literature have been practiced since at least early modern times. It brings forward the creolised and critical kind of humanist republicanism that emerged from the "encounter" between Christian Europeans and so-called Amerindians resisting ideas of pre-set destination or progress from within bio-cultural philosophical, non-dogmatic, arts of non-mastery.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
Research Centres and Institutes: | Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, Centre for (CILAVS) |
Depositing User: | Oscar Guardiola-Rivera |
Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2024 13:46 |
Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2024 15:37 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53098 |
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