Frantz Fanon and Emancipatory Social Theory

A View from the Wretched
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40059-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 142, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

In Frantz Fanon and Emancipatory Social Theory: A View from the Wretched, Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri bring together a collection of essays by a variety of scholars who explore the lasting influence of Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist, revolutionary, and social theorist. Fanon’s work not only gave voice to the “wretched” in the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), but also shaped the radical resistance to colonialism, empire, and racism throughout much of the world. His seminal works, such as Black Skin, White Masks, and The Wretched of the Earth, were read by The Black Panther Party in the United States, anti-imperialists in Africa and Asia, and anti-monarchist revolutionaries in the Middle East. Today, many revolutionaries and scholars have returned to Fanon’s work, as it continues to shed light on the nature of colonial domination, racism, and class oppression.

Contributors include: Syed Farid Alatas, Rose Brewer, Dustin J. Byrd, Sean Chabot, Richard Curtis, Nigel C. Gibson, Ali Harfouch, Timothy Kerswell, Seyed Javad Miri, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Pramod K. Nayar, Elena Flores Ruíz, Majid Sharifi, Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib and Esmaeil Zeiny.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Byrd, Dustin J.

Miri, Seyed Javad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Geschichte der Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri

1 Frantz Fanon and his Influence on the Black Panther Party and the Black Revolution

Mumia Abu-Jamal

2 Alatas, Fanon, and Coloniality

Syed Farid Alatas

3 Fanon, Black Lives, and Revolutionary Black Feminism: 21st Century Considerations

Rose M. Brewer

4 On the Possibility of a Post-colonial Revolutionary: Reconsidering Žižek’s Universalist Reading of Frantz Fanon in the Interregnum

Dustin J. Byrd

5 Fanon, Hegel and the Materialist Theory of History

Richard Curtis

6 Connecting with Fanon: Postcolonial Problematics, Irish Connections, and the Shack Dwellers Rising in South Africa

Nigel C. Gibson

7 Hegel, Fanon, and the Problem of Recognition

Ali S. Harfouch

8 Frantz Fanon and the Peasantry as the Centre of Revolution

Timothy Kerswell

9 Frantz Fanon in Ali Shariati’s Reading: Is it Possible to Interpret Fanon in a Shariatian Form?

Seyed Javad Miri

10 Fanon and Biopolitics

Pramod K. Nayar

11 The Secret Life of Violence

Elena Flores Ruíz

12 Fanon’s New Humanist as Antidote to Today’s Colonial Violence

Majid Sharifi and Sean Chabot

13 The Pathology of Race and Racism in Postcolonial Malay Society: A Reflection on Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks

Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib

14 Re-reading Fanon: Language, Literature, and Empire

Esmaeil Zeiny

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D. (2016), Michigan State University, is an Associate Professor of Religion, Philosophy and Arabic at Olivet College. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and manuscripts, including Islam in a Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity, and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith (Brill, 2016).

Seyed Javad Miri, Ph.D. (2000), Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, is Professor of Sociology and History of Religions at that Institute in Tehran. He has published more than 50 books and 100 articles on various issues related to philosophy, religion, sociology and Social Theory. His latest book is entitled Reimagining Malcolm X: Street Thinker Versus Homo Academicus (University Press of America, 2016).