The Nation and Its Politics

Fanon, Emancipatory Nationalism, and Political Sequences

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ID20084479
AuthorsMichael Neocosmos (0000-0003-1316-7427, corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages187-199
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueLiving Fanon (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230119994_16
OpenAlexW2505548162
ISBN9780230119994
LanguageEN
Citations received8

In order to make our period legible, it is important to also make earlier periods legible. The sequence of national liberation struggles in Africa that cohered around a particular set of political subjectivities emphasizing freedom, justice, equality, and the affirmation of a total humanity has now ended and consequently it has become more difficult to orient our thoughts around issues of emancipatory politics and their possible forms. The absence of emancipatory thinking today has nefarious consequences, as it is currently difficult to imagine an idea of an alternative future in which the youth in particular, but not exclusively, could identify with a more humane society in which massive poverty and powerlessness were not considered inevitable features of life on our continent.KeywordsState PoliticsSocial CategoryPolitical SubjectivityColonial PowerAfrican UnityThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Humanity · Nationalism · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy

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