One Species, Same Difference
Postcolonial Critique and the Concept of Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4270990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shital Pravinchandra (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-48 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2016.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W2486132326 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examines a recent challenge to postcolonial studies: the emergence of species thinking. Species thinking calls for a shift away from postcolonial studies and its characteristic emphasis on racial, ethnic and cultural difference in favour of a new and fully inclusive concept of human collectivity that is attentive to our basic sameness and our common vulnerability to the forces that threaten our future on this planet. I suggest that the move to species thinking is too hasty, and I argue that its recourse to the rhetoric of life preservation warrants much deeper scrutiny. As I demonstrate, to uncritically portray life and its prolongment as the goal to which we all aspire is to ultimately profile new patterns of neocolonial domination where exploitation is legitimized not in the name of “progress” and the civilizing mission but in the name of longevity and the reproduction of the species
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Political science · Rhetoric · Scrutiny · Sociology · Anthropology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Biomedicalization
The Politics of Life Itself
The Human Condition
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Animal Rites
Postcolonial Ecologies
The Human Shore
Against race
Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change
Migrant Supplementarity
Stem Cells, Tissue Cultures and the Production of Biovalue
The Climate of History
The Global Traffic in Human Organs
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |