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Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism

Performing Decolonial Solidarities

Anjana Raghavan


An articulation of any kind of global understanding of belonging, or ways of cosmopolitan life, requires a constant engagement with vulnerability, especially in a world that is so deeply wounded by subjugation, colonialisms and genocides. And yet discussion of the body, affect and corporeal politics from the margins are noticeably absent from contemporary liberal and Kantian models of cosmopolitan thought.

This book explores the ways in which existing narratives of cosmopolitanism are often organised around European and American discourses of human rights and universalism, which allow little room for the articulation of an affective, embodied and subaltern politics. It brings contemporary understandings of cosmopolitan solidarities into dialogue with the body, affect and the persistent spectre of colonial difference. Race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender are all extremely important to these articulations of cosmopolitan belongings, and we cannot really speak of communities without speaking of embodiment and emotion.

This text envisions new ways of articulating and conceptualising ‘corporeal cosmopolitanism’ which are neither restricted to a purely postcolonial paradigm, nor subjugated by European colonialism and modernity. It challenges the understanding of liberal cosmopolitan solidarities using decolonial, and feminist performances of solidarity as radical compassion, resistance, and love.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 228 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-78348-795-0 • Hardback • August 2017 • $154.00 • (£119.00)
978-1-78348-887-2 • Paperback • March 2019 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Subjects: Political Science / Globalization, Social Science / Social Theory, Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Philosophy / Political
Anjana Raghavan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Incanting the body into the Political / 1. Locating Corporeal Cosmopolitanism: Theoretical Vicissitudes / 2. The Anatomy of Abjection: Understanding Exclusion, Corporeality, and Emotions
/ 3. Occluded Rainbows: Queerness and Cosmopolitan Solidarity in India / 4. Are Dispossessed Bodies Human? Gender, Exile, and Cosmopolitan Solidarity / 5. Love in the Time of Corporeal Cosmopolitanism
/ 6. Conclusion: Incanting the Political into the Body / Index

Visiting the stories and story-telling traditions beginning with queer and cosmopolitan solidarities in India (specifically from Tamil Nadu) and working through a number of important texts of Indo-Caribbean women's literature, Raghavan invites us to begin to think deeply about what a decolonial, feminist, and corporeal cosmopolitanism looks, sounds, and feels like. . . . As a remedy to the overly legal and depoliticized theories of liberal cosmopolitanism, and mostly to ideal-theory variations at that, this book puts forth various models of refreshingly embodied, feminist, decolonial cosmopolitanisms in the plural that are capacious enough to be both descriptive and normative at times. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for ways to have a genuine conversation about cosmopolitanism in the decolonial and feminist key.


— Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy


Fleshy and affective, Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism offers a radical alternative to the disembodied rationalism of liberal cosmopolitanism. Using an approach that is at once decolonial, queer and feminist, Raghavan explores cosmopolitan solidarity in "the global south." It is a key contribution to opening the heart of cosmopolitanism to the corporealised knowledges of those who are violently marginalised and excluded.
— Veronique Pin-Fat, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Manchester


Anjana Raghavan offers an invigorating intervention into contemporary discourses on cosmopolitanism. Moving effortlessly through nuanced critiques of Euro-American philosophy, her efforts re-center embodiment, affect, and emotion as crucial sites of postcolonial epistemology. Corporeal Cosmopolitanism is a compelling and sensuously rendered treatise on decolonial knowledge and radical world-making.
— Pavithra Prasad


Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism

Performing Decolonial Solidarities

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Hardback
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Summary
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  • An articulation of any kind of global understanding of belonging, or ways of cosmopolitan life, requires a constant engagement with vulnerability, especially in a world that is so deeply wounded by subjugation, colonialisms and genocides. And yet discussion of the body, affect and corporeal politics from the margins are noticeably absent from contemporary liberal and Kantian models of cosmopolitan thought.

    This book explores the ways in which existing narratives of cosmopolitanism are often organised around European and American discourses of human rights and universalism, which allow little room for the articulation of an affective, embodied and subaltern politics. It brings contemporary understandings of cosmopolitan solidarities into dialogue with the body, affect and the persistent spectre of colonial difference. Race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender are all extremely important to these articulations of cosmopolitan belongings, and we cannot really speak of communities without speaking of embodiment and emotion.

    This text envisions new ways of articulating and conceptualising ‘corporeal cosmopolitanism’ which are neither restricted to a purely postcolonial paradigm, nor subjugated by European colonialism and modernity. It challenges the understanding of liberal cosmopolitan solidarities using decolonial, and feminist performances of solidarity as radical compassion, resistance, and love.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
    Pages: 228 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-78348-795-0 • Hardback • August 2017 • $154.00 • (£119.00)
    978-1-78348-887-2 • Paperback • March 2019 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
    Subjects: Political Science / Globalization, Social Science / Social Theory, Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Philosophy / Political
Author
Author
  • Anjana Raghavan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Incanting the body into the Political / 1. Locating Corporeal Cosmopolitanism: Theoretical Vicissitudes / 2. The Anatomy of Abjection: Understanding Exclusion, Corporeality, and Emotions
    / 3. Occluded Rainbows: Queerness and Cosmopolitan Solidarity in India / 4. Are Dispossessed Bodies Human? Gender, Exile, and Cosmopolitan Solidarity / 5. Love in the Time of Corporeal Cosmopolitanism
    / 6. Conclusion: Incanting the Political into the Body / Index
Reviews
Reviews
  • Visiting the stories and story-telling traditions beginning with queer and cosmopolitan solidarities in India (specifically from Tamil Nadu) and working through a number of important texts of Indo-Caribbean women's literature, Raghavan invites us to begin to think deeply about what a decolonial, feminist, and corporeal cosmopolitanism looks, sounds, and feels like. . . . As a remedy to the overly legal and depoliticized theories of liberal cosmopolitanism, and mostly to ideal-theory variations at that, this book puts forth various models of refreshingly embodied, feminist, decolonial cosmopolitanisms in the plural that are capacious enough to be both descriptive and normative at times. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for ways to have a genuine conversation about cosmopolitanism in the decolonial and feminist key.


    — Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy


    Fleshy and affective, Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism offers a radical alternative to the disembodied rationalism of liberal cosmopolitanism. Using an approach that is at once decolonial, queer and feminist, Raghavan explores cosmopolitan solidarity in "the global south." It is a key contribution to opening the heart of cosmopolitanism to the corporealised knowledges of those who are violently marginalised and excluded.
    — Veronique Pin-Fat, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Manchester


    Anjana Raghavan offers an invigorating intervention into contemporary discourses on cosmopolitanism. Moving effortlessly through nuanced critiques of Euro-American philosophy, her efforts re-center embodiment, affect, and emotion as crucial sites of postcolonial epistemology. Corporeal Cosmopolitanism is a compelling and sensuously rendered treatise on decolonial knowledge and radical world-making.
    — Pavithra Prasad


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