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Creolizing Practices of Freedom: Recognition and Dissonance
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Creolizing Practices of Freedom: Recognition and Dissonance

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Creolizing Practices of Freedom argues that many of our long-standing debates over the concept of freedom have been bound up in the politics of purity - explicitly or implicitly insisting on clear and distinct boundaries between self and other or between choice and coercion. In this model, freedom becomes a matter of purifying the self at the individual level, and the body politic at the larger social level. The appropriate response to this is a creolizing theory of freedom, an approach that sees indeterminacy and ambiguity not as tragic flaws, but as crucial productive elements of the practice of freedom. Using debates about the politics of recognition as a central example, the book argues that both contemporary proponents and critics of recognition theory fall prey to the politics of purity. Building on a reappropriate of the Hegelian origins of recognition theory the book advances a reading of recognition in which recognition is a necessarily open-ended, dynamic, and relational account of human subjectivity in which freedom in this creolizing sense emerges as an aim. Arguing further that any appropriate theorization of freedom as creolizing must itself engage in an open-ended and productive encounter with different approaches and traditions, the book draws upon the work of Steve Biko, Gloria Anzaldua, Sylvia Wynter, and Lewis Gordon to further enrich and elaborate the emerging account of freedom as a creolizing practice. Key to the development of this account of freedom is a recurring appeal to the sonic. Oppression operates as a mode of destructive interference, like a kind of white noise, and freedom operates as mode of constructive interference where human activity is mutually-enhancing and directed toward reciprocity or resonance.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Country
United States
Date
1 December 2022
Pages
192
ISBN
9781538174616

Creolizing Practices of Freedom argues that many of our long-standing debates over the concept of freedom have been bound up in the politics of purity - explicitly or implicitly insisting on clear and distinct boundaries between self and other or between choice and coercion. In this model, freedom becomes a matter of purifying the self at the individual level, and the body politic at the larger social level. The appropriate response to this is a creolizing theory of freedom, an approach that sees indeterminacy and ambiguity not as tragic flaws, but as crucial productive elements of the practice of freedom. Using debates about the politics of recognition as a central example, the book argues that both contemporary proponents and critics of recognition theory fall prey to the politics of purity. Building on a reappropriate of the Hegelian origins of recognition theory the book advances a reading of recognition in which recognition is a necessarily open-ended, dynamic, and relational account of human subjectivity in which freedom in this creolizing sense emerges as an aim. Arguing further that any appropriate theorization of freedom as creolizing must itself engage in an open-ended and productive encounter with different approaches and traditions, the book draws upon the work of Steve Biko, Gloria Anzaldua, Sylvia Wynter, and Lewis Gordon to further enrich and elaborate the emerging account of freedom as a creolizing practice. Key to the development of this account of freedom is a recurring appeal to the sonic. Oppression operates as a mode of destructive interference, like a kind of white noise, and freedom operates as mode of constructive interference where human activity is mutually-enhancing and directed toward reciprocity or resonance.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Country
United States
Date
1 December 2022
Pages
192
ISBN
9781538174616