Theory from the South or, How Euro‐America Is Evolving toward AfricaJeanComaroff and John L.Comaroff. (Boulder, CO

Theory from the South is a provocative book intended to add an element of play in the evolutionary and progress-based rhetoric that undergirds political projects around the world.The authors take issue with the entrenched colonial paradigm in which post-colonies continue to change toward models and images of the North to suggest that in fact, the inverse is true.Africa, Latin America and Asia look more like the future, than the past.The authors do not quite make an argument of reversed linearity, yet they are not completely beyond that logic, and so they pose that the world is witnessing an eastward and southward dislocation of the most dynamic and innovative centers of value production.Political geographies of core and periphery, they assert, are increasingly unable to explain this geographic shift (p.7).The authors examine this dislocation through seven chapters that focus on personhood, liberalism, democracy, the politics of the body, history, and the paradoxes of borders.Each chapter offers a textured example of forewarning, anticipation, and foreshadowing of the North by Africa

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