Choose Your Bearing

Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics

AvBenjamin P. Davis

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: ‘You must choose your bearing.’ Informed by the prayer camps at Standing Rock, and presenting Glissant alongside Stuart Hall, Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Anzaldúa and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book offers an urgent ethics for the present – an ethics of risk, commitment and care that together form a new sense of decolonial responsibility.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-30
Mått:138 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:346 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contemporary Continental Ethics
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399522441

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Benjamin Davis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies, Saint Louis University, USA. He is the author of Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) and the co-editor of Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).

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Choose Your Bearing commits to inclusive universal rights and protections for natural environments. Interweaving philosophy and history, Benjamin Davis presents an elegant account of the contributions, contradictions, and betrayals of human rights advocacy within anti-colonial struggles. Referencing Glissant, Said, Marx, Du Bois and other intellectuals, this book engages ethics, diverse ethnic identities, and the structural antagonisms between colonizers and the colonized. Choose Your Bearing offers a succinct study of intellectuals and care-givers who improvised a common language for political advocacy; thus, it clarifies how to stabilize current resistance to imperialism and predatory powers. – Joy James, author of New Bones Abolition and Contextualizing Angela Davis

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Introduction: Starting from Responsibility and Human RightsThesis and Chapter OutlineChapter One: The Right to Opacity in TheoryToward an Alternative Ethical VocabularyAlterity and Encounter Read in ContextContacts, Relays, OpacitiesThe Right to Opacity and Human RightsChapter Two: The Right to Opacity in PracticeThe Critical-Reformist TensionThree Approaches to Human RightsThe Paradigmatic ApproachThe Critical ApproachThe Organizational ApproachThe Three Approaches at Work and the Promises of Standing RockChapter Three: Solidarity beyond ParticipationInstitutions and ImaginariesRoots: Identity and BelongingRelations: Solidarity, Anarchy, and GenerosityRoot Identity and Relation IdentityExpansive BelongingChapter Four: The Feasibility of Ethical PursuitsFeasibilityThe Other of ThoughtLa FacultadDeslenguadaEntanglementsMaking KinChapter Five: The Limits of Ethics and the Question of Political CommitmentSummary of StudyThe Limits of EthicsThe Question of Political CommitmentW. E. B. Du Bois’s Critique of Elite Human Rights DiscourseBibliography