Thinking the US South

Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives

Shannon Sullivan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2021
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4331-9 (ISBN)

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Knowledge emerges from contexts, which are shaped by people’s experiences. The varied essays in Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives demonstrate that Southern identities, borders, and practices play an important but unacknowledged role in ethical, political, emotional, and global issues connected to knowledge production. Not merely one geographical region among others, the US South is sometimes a fantasy and other times a nightmare, but it is always a prominent component of the American national imaginary. In connection with the Global North and Global South, the US South provides a valuable perspective from which to explore race, class, gender, and other inter- and intra-American differences. The result is a fresh look at how identity is constituted; the role of place, ancestors, and belonging in identity formation; the impact of regional differences on what counts as political resistance; the ways that affect and emotional labor circulate; practices of boundary policing, deportation, and mourning; issues of disability and slowness; racial and other forms of suffering; and above all, the question of whether and how doing philosophy changes when done from Southern standpoints. Examining racist tropes, Indigenous land claims, Black Southern philosophical perspectives, migrant labor, and more, this incisive anthology makes clear that roots matter.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2021
Co-Autor	Linda Martin Alcoff, Shiloh Whitney, Lucius T. Outlaw, Mariana Ortega
Zusatzinfo	10 black & white images
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-8101-4331-3 / 0810143313
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-4331-9 / 9780810143319
Zustand	Neuware