VY Mudimbe
From the 'Nation' to the 'Global' - 'Who is the Master
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4301466 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pierre‐philippe Fraiture (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 324-342 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/johs.12060 |
| OpenAlex | W1827062009 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examinesValentinYvesMudimbe's work form the early 1970s, in the neo-colonial era, to the present day, a period marked by the advent of "Empire", as conceived byMichaelHardt andToniNegri. The investigation appraises the way in whichMudimbe's epistemological excavation ofAfrican discourses and discourses aboutAfrica serves wider ethical and political objectives resonating with critiques of anthropology as formulated byBenoîtVerhaegen andJohannesFabian in the 1960s and 1970s. PartIfocuses onZairian nationalism ("Zairianization") and the ambition, on the part of theMobutu regime, to develop anauthenticnational culture. This examination of the birth of aZairian "community" is developed through a comparison betweenMudimbe's little-studiedAutour de la "nation" (1972) andKangafuKutumbagana'sDiscours sur l'authenticité(1973) and is argued on the basis of a number of propositions formulated byJean-LucNancy inTheInoperativeCommunity(1991). The second part of the article focuses onMudimbe'sOnAfrican Fault Lines(2013); it examinesMudimbe's attempts, in his analyses of contemporary works byDeepaRajkumar andGeertHofstede, to reflect on globalization and to assess the political and ethical relevance of critical tools developed in the neo-colonial period to denounce the unequal basis of anthropology
Political science · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |