In search of decolonised political futures
Engaging Mahmood Mamdani's neither settler nor native
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fazil Moradi (0000-0002-9309-7408, University of Johannesburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 355-372 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14634996231209104 |
| OpenAlex | W4389221680 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
This text offers a brief overview of the Special Issue on Mahmood Mamdani's book, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (2020), and a reading of the contributions and of Mamdani's plea for the historic importance of epistemological revolution and of learning to imagine a community of survivors. My reading is mediated through an autobiographical critique of political modernity and ongoing state violence. I explore more deeply what Mamdani calls 'settler autobiography' and a community of survivors, other than a community of memory that is unified and homogenised. By turning to unauthorised autobiographies, the autobiographies of those subjected to colonialism as annihilatory violence, I take up Mamdani's call to rethink political violence and the possibility of living together as survivors in Iran as a 'decolonised political community'. In order to do so I turn to memories of irredeemable destruction, displacement and incalculable losses that live on in our (my mother's and my) deferred autobiographies, alongside the epistemological revolution in Iran-Women. Life. Freedom
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As Long As Grass Grows
Epistemologies of the South
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
Recasting Iranian Modernity
Russia and Britain in Persia
The World of Persian Literary Humanism
Race Otherwise
Development as Buen Vivir
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
The Post Card
Homo Sacer
The Islamic State's Êzîdî Genocide in Iraq
Contested Meaning of the Veil and Political Ideologies of Iranian Regimes
The Politics of Rightful Killing
No Friend but the Mountains
Translation as Culture
Religious Minorities in Iran
Bildung and the Thinking of Bildung
Censorship and the Islamic Republic
Neo-Iranian Nationalism
The Political, Cultural, and Military Re-Awakening of the Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Iran
Frames of war
Can non-Persians speak? The sovereign’s narration of “Iranian identity
Neither Settler nor Native
Venus in Two Acts
Undoing the Demos
Catastrophic Art
Acting Bits/Identity Talk
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |