des Portes, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-8232-5110 (2024) Towards a decolonial political theory: Thinking from the zone of nonbeing. Philosophy and Social Criticism. ISSN 0191-4537
Abstract
This article offers to outline a direction for a decolonial political theory based on Aimé Césaire’s and Frantz Fanon’s thoughts. In doing so, I will first discuss some work of comparative political theory that could be associated with an attempt to decolonize political theory. Rather than a systematic critique of these works, this article aims to outline some of their limits from a decolonial perspective, such as their embedment in a continental ontology/logic, and their over-emphasis on methodology that can lead to an instrumental account of politics. In contrast, I will argue for a decolonial existential political theory that grounds its investigation in what Frantz Fanon called ‘the zone of nonbeing’ and that takes politics as first philosophy. To make my point, I will discuss Aimé Césaire’s Letter to Maurice Thorez and Frantz Fanon’s Political Theory of the Damnés.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC 4.0). |
Keywords: | decolonial thought, phenomenology, existential philosophy, political theory, comparative political theory |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2024 09:15 |
Last Modified: | 22 Aug 2024 09:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/01914537241229055 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:216361 |
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