Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-169) and index.
Contents:
The "unknown" Middle Easterner : post-racial anxieties and anti-MENA racism throughout colonized space-time -- Changing lenses : anti-racist posturing versus praxis, an enactivist critique -- Calling-in MENA nationalists : why recent geopolitical boundaries fail to account for MENA subjectivity -- Decolonizing the ancients : or, the known West and the anti-colonial principle -- Flip the script : myth and example from the shores of Shinar -- Be ready : lessons from Cyprus and Rojava -- Conclusion: MENA America and the future.
Summary:
"Entangled in misrecognition, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) perceived people are socially and politically vulnerable throughout the colonized world. Anti-Colonial relational existence is possible through careful social labor, and cases of MENA communities prove that such normative praxis is not merely wishful thinking"-- Provided by publisher. "Anti-Colonial Solidarity: Race, Reconciliation, and MENA Liberation confronts the racialization of Middle-Eastern and North African (MENA) perceived peoples from a global perspective. George N. Fourlas critiques how orientalism, racism, and colonialism co-emerged to afford the imaginary landscapes of the recently recategorized MENA. In confronting the problem of racialization, Fourlas reflects on the conditions of the possibility of a solidarity that resists the violent domination which has defined colonial power for centuries. Rather than offer a blueprint for a well-ordered society, however, Anti-Colonial Solidarity explores what is required to enact an open-ended collectivity that resists rigid universalism and prioritizes reciprocal relations with our living world. Anti-Colonialism Solidarity is a call to action to reclaim ourselves and our history from the trappings of colonial domination."-- Back cover.
Series:
Explorations in contemporary social-political philosophy (ESCPP)
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