The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities by Thies, Sebastian; Goumegou, Susanne; Cebey, Georgina;

Short description:

This handbook is to provide a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a category of social and cultural analysis.

Long description:

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis. The contestation of the Northern myth of the autonomous subject?the dispositive that contests subject formation in the South by describing it as fragmented, incomplete, delayed or simply deviant, has been a cornerstone of theory production from the South over the years.

This volume?s contributions offer an interdisciplinary and transarea dialogue, reframing issues of selfhood and alterity, of personhood, of the human, of the commons and contesting the North?s presumption in determining what kind of subjectivities abide by its norms, whose voices are heard, who is recognised as a subject, and, by extension, whose lives matter. In the context of the shifting dynamics of today?s manifold crises, they raise questions regarding how subjectivities act on or resist such forms of contestation, contingency, and indeterminacy.

A major contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the Global South, this handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, researchers and instructors in literature, media and culture studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law, politics, visual arts and art history.

Table of Contents:

I. General Introduction: Contested and Contesting Subjectivities in the Global South 1. Rethinking Subjectivity with the South: A Conceptual Prelude 2. Regimes of Subjectivity and Temporality 3. Precarisation, Articulation, and Recognition as Dynamics of Subjectivation 4. Towards a More Equitable Ecology of Knowledges II. Articulating Subjectivity from the Global South 5. Thinking the World from Africa 6. No Longer Northbound, Now Heading South 7. The Global South and Internationalism 8. Defining Legal Subjectivities for a Postcolonial International Order: The International Legal Controversy over Wars of National Liberation III. Reconfiguring Interpellation 9. The Subject of Teaching/Learning in the Global South 10. Musical Mega-events, Political Communication, and Cross-border Subjectivities in the Colombian-venezuelan Conflict. The Cases of Paz Sin Fronteras (2008) and Venezuela Aid Live (2019) 11. Tears and Concrete: Urban Subjectivities of Mexican Modernity through the Lens of Films IV. Precarised Subjectivities 12. Figurations of the Precarious. Rethinking Studies on the Precarious in the Global South from a Subject-centred Perspective 13. People-on-the-move: An Emerging Historical Figure? 14. When Image is a Body: Modes of Surviving the Colonial Machine 15. Precarious Lives and the Figure of the Wound in Chilean Literature: Hijo de ladr