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Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism: Performing Decolonial Solidarities
Anjana Raghavan
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783487950
SKU
V9781783487950
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About Anjana Raghavan
Anjana Raghavan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.
Reviews for Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism: Performing Decolonial Solidarities
Fleshy and affective, Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism offers a radical alternative to the disembodied rationalism of liberal cosmopolitanism. Using an approach that is at once decolonial, queer and feminist, Raghavan explores cosmopolitan solidarity in the global south. It is a key contribution to opening the heart of cosmopolitanism to the corporealised knowledges of those who are violently marginalised and ... Read more