The Outsider Within. Anticolonial Critiques of Humanity and the Cosmopolitan Vision
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5609468 |
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| Authors | Daniel Davison‐vecchione (0000-0003-4376-1195, Independent Scholar Leatherhead Surrey UK, corresponding author), F C Da Silva (0000-0003-2459-0802, Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon Lisbon Portugal) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 532-540 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-4446.13188 |
| PMID | 39833997 |
| OpenAlex | W4406610091 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
This article re-examines the anticolonial critique of the concept of 'humanity'. It uses the example of Leopold Senghor to show the extent to which this critique is shaped by their sociological marginality. Drawing on Georg Simmel's discussion of the 'stranger' and Patricia Hill Collins's discussion of the 'outsider within', the study rethinks the production of knowledge in racially structured societies. As 'outsiders within' colonial empires, anticolonial thinkers from the 1930s to the 1960s challenge the idea of a universal humanity used to justify colonialism and expose its racial stratification. Their critique helps to end colonial domination and develop a more robust conception of common humanity, aligned with a genuine cosmopolitanism that resists exploitative manipulation and promotes anti-racist agendas. By exploring the critical potential of the figure of the stranger or outsider within, this study invites sociologists to integrate diverse perspectives into sociological discourse and to promote a cosmopolitan epistemology that combines particular and universal insights
Aesthetics · Colonialism · Cosmopolitanism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
Myth, literature and the African world
Moving Bodies
Reflections on the Outsider Within
Cosmopolitanism
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
Black, French, and African
The View of Life
Humanism and the Ends of Empire, 1945–1960
The Concept of Negritude in the Poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor
Dwelling in epistemic disobedience
Citizenship between Empire and Nation
Metamorphoses of the “Stranger
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts
Simmel at a Distance
Thinking against empire
The Challenge of Modernity
Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary
Georg Simmel, the Stranger and the Sociology of Knowledge
Intercultural Hermeneutics and the Cross-cultural Subject
Sociology and Colonialism in the British and French Empires, 1945-1965
Learning from the Outsider Within
Simmel's (non-human) humanism
Georg Simmel and the transmission of distance
Bridge and Door
Being-with
Towards Relational Spatiality
Human Migration and the Marginal Man
| Highly cited | No |
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