White hallucinations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4798186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucas Van Milders (0000-0002-4412-2531, University of Groningen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 175-191 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Postcolonial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8790 • E-ISSN: 1466-1888 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688790.2021.1938834 |
| OpenAlex | W4249174506 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
In this paper, the concept of white hallucination is developed through the prism of a recent debate about the permissibility of defending colonialism. The latter is, unsurprisingly, steeped in colonial nostalgia and a defence of free speech. These arguments, however, have to be related to the operation of whiteness itself. White hallucinations concern the psychopathological tendency of whiteness to incessantly reinscribe its mastery of the world. Cases for defending colonialism expose whiteness as a delusion that is reasserted by demanding ‘proof’ against its normativity while simultaneously discarding alternative knowledge claims made by testimonial epistemologies of colonial subjugation and dehumanization. The argument further unravels whiteness as a position-without-positionality that seeks to maintain its normativity and supremacy by aligning itself with rationality, objectivity and humanity as such and subjugating non-white perspectives, experiences and knowledges to the spectre of nonexistence
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Colonialism · Dehumanization · Delusion · Epistemology · Humanity · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Racism · Sociology · Subjectivity · White (mutation · White supremacy · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |