Planetary Longings

Mary Louise Pratt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2022
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1829-2 (ISBN)

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In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the millennial turn in relation to environmental disaster and to the new forms of thinking it has catalyzed. She turns to 1990s Latin American vernacular culture, literary fiction, and social movements, which simultaneously registered neoliberalism’s devastating effects and pursued alternate ways of knowing and living. Tracing the workings of colonialism alongside the history of anticolonial struggles and Indigenous mobilizations in the Americas, Pratt analyzes indigeneity both as a key index of coloniality, neoliberal extraction, and ecological destruction, and as a source for alternative modes of thought and being. Ultimately, Pratt demonstrates that the changes on either side of the millennium have catalyzed new forms of world-making and knowledge-making in the face of an unknowable and catastrophic future.

Mary Louise Pratt is Silver Professor, Emerita, of Spanish and Portuguese and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, at Stanford University. She is coeditor of Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship and author of Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Sitting in the Light of the Great Solar TV 1
Part I. Future Tensions
1.Modernity's False Promises 33
2. Why the Virgin of Zapopan Went to Los Angeles 56
3. Mobility and the Politics of Belonging 75
4. Fire, Water, and Wandering Women 90
5. Planetarized Indigeneity 107
6. Anthropocene as Concept and Chronotope 117
7. Mutations of the Contact Zone: Human to More-Than-Human 125
8. Is This Gitmo or Club Med? 137
9. Authoritarianism 2020: Lessons from Chile 144
Part II. Coloniality, Indigeneity, and the Traffic in Meaning
10. The Ethnographer's Arrival 165
11. Rigoberta MenchÚ and the Geopolitics of Truth 189
12. The Politics of Reenactment 207
13. Translation, Contagion, Infiltration 220
14. Thinking across the Colonial Divide 234
15. The Futurology of Independence 251
16. Remembering Anticolonialism 265
Coda: Airways, the Politics of Breath 276
Notes 281
References 299
Index 323
Publication History 339

Erscheinungsdatum	31.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Dissident Acts
Zusatzinfo	26 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4780-1829-1 / 1478018291
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1829-2 / 9781478018292
Zustand	Neuware