Radical Humanism

Robert K. Beshara is Associate Professor of Psychology and Humanities at Northern New Mexico College, USA. He is the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis and the editor of Critical Psychology Praxis.

"Radical Humanism brings together philosophers, film makers, and psychologists for what is arguably the most important political conversation today: the future of what it means to be human on a shared planet. Like the light in New Mexico where this book was forged, Beshara’s collection inspires its readers to place themselves amidst a sometimes bright, sometimes shadow-crossed, always shifting world."Benjamin P. Davis, author of Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt"Radical Humanism: Decolonizing Perspectives in Critical Psychology is a daring, necessary reckoning with the limits of the human as we have inherited it, centering the weird, the pluriversal, and the historically dispossessed as the grounds for reimagining the human. Together, the contributors take up the challenge of imagining what it means to be human in the wake of coloniality, racial capitalism, and epistemic violence. What emerges is not a single definition of radical humanism but a set of commitments, fuelled by a shared refusal of racial capitalism, colonial violence, and epistemic erasure, and shaped by the imperative to think otherwise. Beshara opens with his own positionality to begin an urgent conversation across disciplines, traditions, and geopolitical locations that embraces contradiction and makes space for unknowing as an invitation to think otherwise. An important text for anyone invested in critical psychology, decolonial theory, and the always unfinished but ever important task of becoming human otherwise. An important text, a must read!"Kamari Maxine Clarke, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Canada, author of Affective Justice

• 1. Robert K. Beshara ~ Radical Humanism Qua Weird Humanism2. Matthew Flisfeder ~ Communism or Humanism? Yes, Please: On Althusser, Mao, and the Development of the Superstructure3. Sarah Huxtable Mohr ~ Utopian Vision and Islamic Liberation Theory: Islamic Humanism and What Can Be or What Ought to Be4. Asma Mehan & Sina Mostafavi ~ Architectural Humanities: Decolonizing Perspectives in Mapping Resilience and Urban Psychology5. Elena Marquez ~ Humanism in the Making: Chicana Women and Creative Labor6. Nadine R. Jackson ~ To Inhale Is To Inherit: Structural Violence, Molecular Trauma, and the Necro-Biopolitical Matrix7. El Mehdi Ait Oukhzame ~ (Anti-)Blackness, Fugitive Positionality, and the Human Question8. Naomi Jacobi ~ From Species-Being to Interspecies-Becoming: Labor and the Formation of Transhuman Subjectivities9. Kieran Durkin ~ Human (Anti)Capital: Reinvigorating the Critique of Capital10. Sneha Chakradhar ~ Divinity and Humanism in Bharatanatyam 11. Scott Krzych ~ Sylvia Wynter, Deciphering Practices, and Cognitive Film Studies12. María Constanza Garrido Sierralta ~ The Memory of Others: A Critical Phenomenology of Detenidos-Desaparecidos13. David Lindblom ~ Iconic Catholic Imagery Hidden in Plain Sight in Bicycle Thieves14. Caveh Zahedi ~ A Map of the Human15. Lewis Gordon ~ Radical Humanism