Coloniality, Ontology, and the Question of the Posthuman

ISBN-13: 9781138920903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 250 str.

Mark Jackson

Opis

This book brings together emerging insights from across the humanities and social sciences to highlight how postcolonial studies are being transformed by alternative, increasingly influential and radical approaches to nature, politics, matter, subjectivity and human agency. This book examines how postcolonialism is renewing itself to meet the theoretical and empirical demands of a more-than-human world. Postcolonial research needs to critically engage with radical transitions suggested by the ontological turn and its related posthumanist developments. This is the first book to trace critical implications and potentials of political ecology and posthumanism for diverse forms of postcolonial critique. Analysis is developed through international, critical and empirical cases that include city spaces and urbanism in the Global North and South, food politics and colonial land use, cultural representation, nation building, the Anthropocene, materiality and indigenous world views. This theoretically and conceptually rich book proposes new trajectories through which postcolonial scholarship can advance.

Spis treści

Introduction: a critical bridging exercise Mark Jackson. 1. For new ecologies of thought: towards decolonizing critique. Mark Jackson. 2. Anti-colonial ontologies – a dialogue. Angela Last. 3. Chronic carriers: creole pigs, postplantation politics, and disturbing agrarian ontologies in Haiti. Sophie Moore. 4. Terra plena: revisiting contemporary agrarian struggles in Central America through a "full earth" perspective. Naomi Millner. 5. Refracting colonialism in Canada: fish tales, text, and insistent public grief. Zoe Todd. 6. Unsettling the urban geographies of settler-colonial cities: aporetic encounters with the spatiotemporal dynamics of modern logic. Delacey Tedesco. 7. "Well, City Boy Rangoon, it’s time to stitch up the evening": material, meaning, and Man in the (post)colonial city. Lisa Tilley. 8. Ethno-linguistic cartographies as colonial embodiment in postcolonial Sri Lanka. Chitra Jayathilake. 9. Immanent comparisons and the perception of the post-human in the filmic sensorium of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Carlo Bonura. 10. Political ontology and international relations: politics, self-estrangement, and void universalism in a pluriverse. Hans-Martin Jaeger

O autorze

Mark Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies at the University of Bristol, UK.