- Title
- Decolonising critique: from prophetic negation to prefigurative affirmation
- Creator
- Motta, Sara C.
- Relation
- Social Sciences for an 'Other' Politics: Women Theorizing Without Parachutes p. 33-48
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- In this chapter, Sara Motta visions a possible answer to the question 'how do we decolonize the practice of revolutionary critique?'. Emerging from a dialogue between her praxis with women in movement over the last 15 years and the work of Black, Decolonial and Chicana feminists she first deconstructs the classic 20th Century Prophetic figure of critique. She does this through engagement with Zizek's work demonstrating their reproduction and complicity in the epistemological logics and rationalities of coloniality. She then begins to map some elements of decolonizing critique through the figure of the storyteller, for whom critique is existentially grounded in the/our self-liberating and collective practices of healing as emancipation. Here possibilities for multiple grounds of onto-epistemological becoming are opened as racialized women denied knowing-subjectivity in coloniality co-construct radical community, critical intimacy and speak in multiple tongues enfleshing, and thus reinventing, revolutionary praxis.
- Subject
- decolonising critique; prefigurative epistemologies; embodied emancipation; critical intimacy; pedagogies of becoming; decolonial feminism; black feminism; chicana feminism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1347888
- Identifier
- uon:30126
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783319477763
- Language
- eng
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