Practices of Disciplinary Refusal for New Futures

P. Khalil Saucier is Professor of Critical Black studies at Bucknell University, USA.

This book is a wonderful illustration of epistemic Sankofa. A tribute to the guiding principles of Black study, Saucier and the contributors answer the following question: what precedes discipline(s)?, by providing insights into Black radical tradition and Indigenous African forms of knowledge production. By rejecting passivity, the collection challenges readers to imagine the future for themselves, revealing new questions and possibilities that emerge when beginning from Black and blackened bodies, histories, and theories.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Rendering Refusal and Conscripting Future ThoughtP. Khalil Saucier (Bucknell University, USA)1. Refusing the Disciplinary (B)order: Knowledge Production Beyond Academic Boundaries Madeline Jaye Bass (Max Planck Institute, DE)2. Violence and the Labor of Negation: Preliminary Notes on Refusal, Vitalism and AntagonismFranco Barchiesi (The Ohio State University, USA) 3. Refuse to Live: The Dialectics of Immunology in Totalitarian TimesTryon P. Woods (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, USA)4. Refusing the Banalization of Race: Decolonial ‘Refusal’ and the Black HorizonFarai Chipato (University of Glasgow, UK) and David Chandler (University of Westminster, UK)5. Critique of Indigenous Reason: The Case of PalestineZahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)6. Racial Impasse, Black Fugitivity and Fugitive Democracy: Fred Moten's Refusals and ConsentsGeorge Shulman (New York University, USA)Index