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OverviewThis volume brings together reflections on citizenship, political violence, race, ethnicity and gender, by some of the most critical voices of our times. Detailed and wide-ranging individual reflections, take the writings of prominent Ugandan political theorist Mahmood Mamdani as a touchstone for thinking about the world from Africa. Contributors apply this theory to argue that we cannot make sense of the political contentions of difference, identity and citizenship today without understanding the legacies of colonial rule on our world. Chapters examine the persistence of the past, and how we must reckon with its tragedies, its injustices, and its utopias in order to chart a new politics; the politics of possible futures that are more inclusive and more egalitarian, and that can think of difference in more equitable ways. In a time when the call to decolonize knowledge, and politics rings loud and clear, this is both a timely and a crucial intervention. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Suren Pillay (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350228955ISBN 10: 1350228958 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 23 February 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction- Professor Suren Pillay (University of the Western Cape) 1. Of Citizen(s) and Subject(s): Mamdani on Research, Methods, and Commitments in Postcolonial Africa - Professor Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui (Cornell University) 2. Decolonizing the earth: On Mamdani's mode of thought or for a grounded global intellectual movement - Professor Kuang-Hsing Chen: (Chiao Tung University) 3. Thinking with Citizen and Subject - Professor Talal Asad (Graduate Centre, CUNY) 4. On Power, Empowerment, Resistance: The Choice between Barbarism and Slavery in the (post)-Colonial Context - Professor Abdelwahab al-Effendi Osman (University of Westminster) 5. Beyond the Custom/Market Dichotomy: Women’s Rights to Land and the Challenge of the Commons - Professor Nivedita Menon (Jawaharlal Nehru University) 6. Constructing citizens and subjects in eastern Ethiopia: the clash between the British and Ethiopian Empires - Dr Namhla Matshanda (University of the Western Cape) 7. Political Identity and Postcolonial Democracy - Professor Karuna Mantena (Columbia University) 8. Colonial legacies of ethnicized violence, gendered subjects and emancipatory politics - Professor Lyn Ossome (Makerere University) 9. The Bifurcated Society: Citizen and Subject in Contemporary South Africa - Professor Steven Friedman (University of Johannesburg) 10. The Subject Races: Populations, Classifications, Justice - Professor Suren Pillay (University of the Western Cape) 11. The Legacy of Bandung - Professor Partha Chatterjee (Columbia University) 12. Citizen and Subject, Revisited - Professor Mahmood Mamdani (Makerere University and Columbia University)ReviewsIn any studies of contemporary Africa and indeed the postcolonial world, Mahmood Mamdani's empirically grounded and theoretically illuminating scholarship occupies a central place. It is therefore inevitable for scholars not to visit and revisit Mamdani's work as they reflect on current and pertinent issues of how colonialists ruled Africa, what social orders were laid out, how violence was deployed, how knowledge was colonized, and how the colonial impinged on the postcolonial. I have nothing but praise for this volume that is focused on Mamdani's ever relevant scholarship. Surren Pillay must be commended for assembling a stellar group on scholars to reflect on Mamdani's work in the advancement of scholarship on Africa in particular and the postcolonial world in general. * Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor/Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South and Vice-Dean for Research of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany * Author InformationSuren Pillay is AC Jordan Professor of African Studies, and Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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