Accounts of Injury as Misappropriations of Race
Towards a Critical Black Politics of Vulnerability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12643240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noémi Michel (University of Geneva), Noemi Vanessa Michel (University of Geneva, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 240-259 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Horizons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14409917.2016.1153895 |
| OpenAlex | W2520047017 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 32 |
Across contexts and time, subjects marked by racial difference have expressed public accounts of the multiple injuries of race. From the vantage point of critical race and black theory, this paper sheds light on both the heuristic and critical political values of such accounts. The first part critically reassesses conceptualizations of vulnerability as an ambivalent ontological condition within critical approaches to liberalism. A close reading of Fanon's account of injury in Black Skin, White Masks specifies how race exploits bodily and enunciative vulnerability and materializes subjects into a state of suspension and suspicion. The second part addresses the political promise of accounts of racialized injury. Departing from sceptical readings of “wounded attachment,” critical race and black analyses associate accounts of injury with citational practices that pertain to historically entrenched conventions of resistance to racial and colonial abusive power. Such accounts can be read as misappropriations of race which expand the horizon of the human
Criminology · Critical race theory · Critical reading · Critical theory · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Race (biology · Racism · Reading (process · Resistance (ecology · Skepticism · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Race, History, and American Society
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Vulnerability and Social Control at the Margins
The Ethics and Politics of Precarity
Beyond Bounded Selves and Places
Policing Vulnerability
Scenes of subjection
Homi K. Bhabha
The Practice of Diaspora
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Black Skin, White Masks
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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism
Politics and Post-Colonial Theory
Habeas Viscus
Edgework
The Threat of Race
Peau noire, masques blancs
Democracy, pluralization, and voice
Thinking Whiteness in French and Swiss Cyberspaces
Injury by Design
Politics and Post-colonial Theory
Justice interruptus
Radical Democratic Activism and the Politics of Resignification
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Equality and Postcolonial Claims of Discursive Injury
Y'a bon Banania
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |