In Excess of Decolonization

The Sovereignty of Childhood in The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

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ID2353276
AuthorsHugo Bujon (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume41
Issue3
Pages21-35
Publication date2024-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02632764231205031
OpenAlexW4390143453
LanguageEN
References cited19

This article questions the place of the child in the metaphysics and imaginary of Western colonization, racialization, and decolonization. In the last chapter of The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, children appear not only as victims but also as a problem for which Fanon struggles to account as a theorist of decolonization as much as a psychiatric practitioner. Through a reading of one of the cases, this article interrogates the ways in which colonization attempts to infantilize colonized populations while erasing childhood, and the ways in which decolonization meets colonization by regarding childhood in the end as a misfortune. The work of decolonization, to proceed, thus would demand us to rethink childhood, and in doing so break free of Western metaphysics

Archaeology · Colonialism · Decolonization · Epistemology · Ethnology · Metaphysics · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Sociology · Sovereignty · The Imaginary · African cultural and philosophical studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis · Theological Perspectives and Practices

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