The political economy of Frantz Fanon’s concept of sociogeny
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11904094 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Hudis (0000-0003-0470-6011, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 186 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.62191/roape-2025-0025 |
| OpenAlex | W7101632563 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
A critical aspect of Frantz Fanon’s thought is its rejection of transhistorical or ontological accounts of race and racism that fail to treat them as socially constructed products of capitalist modernity. Yet while his work addresses the economic imperatives that produce and sustain colonial domination, much of the secondary literature on Fanon assumes he had little or nothing to say about issues related to the Marxian critique of political economy. This article seeks to counter such claims by exploring his attentiveness to the sociogenic basis of racial domination in Black Skins, White Masks and his discussion of the transition from national liberation to a socialism in The Wretched of the Earth and his last psychiatric writings. By engaging with Fanon’s perspective on such issues as nationalisation, decentralised economic and political structures, and the role of the party, the article seeks to show that what he called ‘the humanisation of work’ was part and parcel of a thoroughly democratic, non-hierarchical conception of socialism
Capitalism · Colonialism · Nothing · Perspective (graphical · Politics · Race (biology · Racism · Socialism · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · South African History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |