Weariness
Dismembered Time, Colonialism, Pandemics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21372191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alia Al‐saji (0000-0001-9768-7256, corresponding author), Alia Al-Saji |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 821-826 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8256 • E-ISSN: 2329-8596 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/philtoday20201227379 |
| OpenAlex | W3115985739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Though fatigue appears a constant of this pandemic year, I argue that we may not all be living the same pandemic. I highlight the non-belonging of most racialized and colonized peoples to a world where flourishing is taken for granted as norm. To think this, I use the term “weariness.” I want to evoke, wearing out, wearing down, as well as the medical concept of weathering. Drawing on Césaire, Fanon, Hartman, Scott, and Spillers, my concept of weariness articulates an exhausting and enduring experience—the eroding, grating, and crumbling of racialized flesh—through repetitive colonial duration, not simply for a year, but over a longue durée. I read this as a wounding that needs to be thought not simply in terms of health outcomes and disease, but in terms of affective experience and dismembered possibility
Aesthetics · Colonialism · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Disease · Epistemology · Ethnology · Flourishing · Norm (philosophy) · Pandemic · Political science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Empathy and Medical Education · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |