The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39830-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 139, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

In The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization, Esmaeil Zeiny brings together a collection of essays that interrogate the colonial legacies, the contemporary power structure and the geopolitics of knowledge production. The scholars in this collection illustrate how the writing-back paradigm engages in a conversation and paves the way for a “dialogical and pluri-versal” world where the Rest is no longer excluded. Among the important features of this book is that it presents ways for “decoloniality” and “epistemic disobedience.” This book will be of interest to scholars and students of all Social Science and Humanities disciplines but it is particularly important for those in the disciplines of sociology, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, literature, and theory and philosophy of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Contributors include: Dustin J. Byrd, Ciarunji Chesaina, Hiba Ghanem, Mladjo Ivanovic, Masumi Hashimoto Odari, Arjuna Parakrama, JM. Persánch, Andrew Ridgeway, Rudolf J. Siebert, and Esmaeil Zeiny.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zeiny, Esmaeil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Whose Rest is Best? (Un)Learning Binaries from Subalternity

Arjuna Parakrama

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Rest and Decolonial Epistemologies

Esmaeil Zeiny

Part 1: Positioning New Paradigms

1 Must Non-Europeans Think Like Us? A Critique of Modern Thoughtlessness in Western and Resten Societies

Dustin J. Byrd

2 End or Continuation of World History: the European, Slavic and American World – A New Paradigm?

Rudolf J. Siebert

3 Echoes of the Past: Colonial Legacy and Eurocentric Humanitarianism

Mladjo Ivanovic

Part 2: Positioning Counter-discourses

4 Women Refashion Iran: Decolonizing the Rehistoricized Narratives

Esmaeil Zeiny

5 African Literature: Leadership, Plight of the Majority and Hope

Masumi Hashimoto Odari and Ciarunji Chesaina

6 Aesthetic Hospitality: Mustafa Sa'eed as Guest in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North

Hiba Ghanem

7 The Rest in the White West: After the Empire is Buried, Shadows of Your Black Memory Are Born

JM. Persánch

8 The Topography of Nostalgia: Imaginative Geographies and the Rise of Nationalism

Andrew Ridgeway

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Esmaeil Zeiny, Ph.D. (2013), is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM). He has recently co-edited Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism (Brill, 2018, with Sanaz Fotouhi).