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Subject(s)

• Decolonization—Latin America [Browse]
• Postcolonialism—Latin America [Browse]
• Latin America—Civilization [Browse]
• Latin America—Colonization [Browse]

Series

Dissident acts. [More in this series]

Summary note

"In Planetary Longings leading postcolonial theorist and Latin American scholar Mary Louise Pratt writes from the conviction that the turn of the millennium-the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty first-have marked a turning point in the human and planetary condition. The millennial pivot has called for new modes of imagining and knowledge-making, and has mobilized an array of planetarized processes, forces, and aspirations, which this book contemplates from the geohistorical terrain of the Americas. Planetary Longings studies the planetarized forces of coloniality, decolonization, and indigeneity in their pre- and post-millennial forms. A series of case studies traces the permutations of coloniality from eighteenth-century Andean colonial documents, to nineteenth-century narrative, through to twentieth-century ethnography and testimonio, and twenty-first-century film. The book likewise tracks the workings of anti-colonial and decolonizing forces from eighteenth-century rebellions through nineteenth- and-twentieth-century independence struggles to contemporary indigenous mobilizations and decolonial activism. It takes particular interest in the speculative, futurological dimensions of such projects. Indigeneity is a key through line in the book. In its newly planetarized mode, it ties together the triple catastrophe of coloniality, neoliberal extractivism, and ecological devastation"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Modernity's false promises
• Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles
• Mobility and the politics of belonging
• Fire, water, and wandering women : apocalyptic fictions
• Planetarizing indigeneity
• Anthropocene as concept and chronotope
• Mutations of the contact zone : human to more-than-human
• Is this Gitmo or Club Med?
• Authoritarianism 2020 : lessons from Chile
• The ethnographer's arrival
• Rigoberta Menchú and the geopolitics of truth
• "Even the rain" and the politics of re-enactment
• Translation, contagion, infiltration
• Thinking across the colonial divide
• The futurology of independence
• Remembering anticolonialism.

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ISBN

• 1-4780-2290-6
• 9781478022909 ((ebook))

OCLC

• 1295578286
• 1312726664

Doi

• 10.1515/9781478022909

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