ABSTRACT
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
part I|52 pages
General Introduction
part II|45 pages
Articulating Subjectivity from the Global South
chapter 8|17 pages
Defining Legal Subjectivities for a Postcolonial International Order
part III|50 pages
Reconfiguring Interpellation
chapter 11|13 pages
Tears and Concrete
part IV|94 pages
Precarised Subjectivities
chapter 12|30 pages
Figurations of the Precarious
chapter 15|20 pages
Precarious Lives and the Figure of the Wound in Chilean Literature
part V|66 pages
Entangled Regimes of Temporality
chapter 18|20 pages
Disruptive Temporality and Post-apocalyptic Subjectivity
chapter 19|13 pages
Questioning the “New” Zimbabwe
part VI|55 pages
Contesting the Western Subject of Knowledge