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The Politics of Time
Imagining African Becomings
Achille Mbembe,Felwine Sarr, Philip Gerard
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The Politics of Time
Imagining African Becomings
Achille Mbembe,Felwine Sarr, Philip Gerard
About This Book
As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Often arising in unexpected places, these new forms of life materialize in practices that draw deeply from collective memory while simultaneously assuming distinctly contemporary, even futuristic, guises.
In November 2017, the second session of the Ateliers de la pensĂ©e â Workshops of Thought â was held in Dakar, Senegal. Fifty African and diasporic intellectuals and artists participated and their debates unfolded along numerous thematic lines, approached from the standpoints of many different disciplines. This volume is the result of that encounter. Among the many topics discussed were the concurrence and entanglement of multiple temporalities, the politics of life in the Anthropocene, the project of decolonization, and the preservation and transmission of different ways of knowing. At a time when the world is haunted by the specter of its own end, the contributors to this volume ask whether one can, by taking Africa as a point of departure, seize hold of other options for the future â not only for Africa, but for the world.
The Politics of Time and its companion volume, To Write the Africa World, will be indispensable works for anyone interested in Africa â its past, present, and future â and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.
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- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Series Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- PrefaceâAchille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr
- I
- From Thinking Identity to Thinking African BecomingsâSouleymane Bachir Diagne
- Notes for a Maroon FeminismâFrom the âBody Doubleâ to the Body as SuchâHourya Bentouhami
- Weaving, a Craft for ThoughtâWriting and Thinking in Africa, or the Knot of the Worldâs Great NarrativeâJean-Luc Raharimanana
- II
- Africa and the New Western Figures of Personal Status LawâAbdoul Aziz Diouf
- Rethinking IslamâOr, the Oxymoron of âSecular TheocracyââRachid Id Yassine
- The Impossible MeetingâA Free Interpretation of J. M. Coetzeeâs DisgraceâHemley Boum
- III
- CirculationsâAchille Mbembe
- On the ReturnâThe Political Practices of the African DiasporaâNadia Yala Kisukidi
- Reopening FuturesâFelwine Sarr
- IV
- Un/learningâRethinking Teaching in AfricaâFrançoise VergĂšs
- The Bewitchment of HistoryâMohammed Dibâs Who Remembers the SeaâSoraya Tlatli
- Currency, Sovereignty, DevelopmentâRevisiting the Question of the CFA FrancâNdongo Samba Sylla
- V
- Memories of the World, Memory-WorldâSĂ©verine Kodjo-Grandvaux
- Cum patior AfricaâThe Political Production of Regimes of âthe NighââNadine Machikou
- The Sahara: A Space of Connection within an Emergent Africa, from the Anthropocene to the Spring of Geo-Cultural LifeâBenaouda Lebdai
- Migrations, Narrations, the Refugee ConditionâDominic Thomas
- VI
- Humanity and Animalityâ(Re)thinking AnthropocentrismâBado Ndoye
- The Tree Frogsâ DistressâLionel Manga
- To Speak and Betray Nothing?âRodney Saint-Ăloi
- The Paths of the VoiceâIbrahima Wane
- Index
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