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Featuring Jane Anna Gordon, Professor of Political Science at University of Connecticut, Storrs
This seminar will begin with critical discussion of why parochialism is so alluring and tenacious, suggesting that we need to understand its seductions if we really aim to displace, uproot, or transcend it. It then turns to discussion of creolizing theory and methods as a potential antidote to parochialism that begins from the observation that for any lifeways to meaningfully continue, they must be constantly resituated, refashioned, and made new.
Jane Anna Gordon is Professor of Political Science at University of Connecticut, Storrs, with affiliations in American Studies, El Instituto, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is author of Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement (Routledge, 2020), Creolizing Political Theory (Fordham University Press, 2014), and Why They Couldn’t Wait (RoutledgeFalmer, 2001), co-author of Of Divine Warning (Routledge, 2009), and co-editor of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), The Politics of Richard Wright, (University Press of Kentucky, 2019) Journeys in Caribbean Thought (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016) Creolizing Rousseau (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2015), A Companion to African-American Studies (Blackwell, 2006), and Not Only the Master’s Tools (Routledge, 2006). President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) from 2014-2017, Gordon continues to direct the CPA Summer School and to co-edit the organization’s two book series, Creolizing the Canon and Global Critical Caribbean Studies. With Lewis Gordon, she is Executive Editor of the new, open access journal, Philosophy and Global Affairs.
- Speaker
- Jane Anna Gordon
- Venue
- Edward Wright Building, Room F61
- Contact
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Dr. Ritu Vij, Senior Lecturer: r.vij@abdn.ac.uk