Refusal (and Repair)

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ID2295186
AuthorsDeborah A Thomas (0000-0002-2656-343X)
Year2024
Volume53
Issue1
Pages93-109
Publication date2024-10-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-anthro-041422-020201
OpenAlexW4400641645
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited45

This article focuses on the concept of refusal, particularly as it has been developed within critical Black studies and critical Indigenous studies within anthropology and beyond. It argues that while both Foucauldian and Gramscian frames have generated often exquisite analyses of the animations and counter-animations of power, they have not, in a general sense, sufficiently attended to the foundational processes that charted the possibilities of modern personhood and political life not only in the West but globally. Nor did they tend to acknowledge the genealogies of Black and Indigenous radical thought that were informing approaches to political life within these communities, locally and transnationally. I contend that any significant reformulation of the discipline of anthropology must deliberate anew about the logics and mechanisms of political struggle in a way that recognizes and foregrounds-in nuanced and dynamic ways-the ongoing coloniality and racism that constitute the afterlives (and still lives) of conquest. Refusal provides inroads to this project

Business · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies · Political theory and Gramsci

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