Displacing Theory Through the Global South calls for reflection on the historical and geopolitical inequalities that have shaped theorization. It asserts that what appears ‘universal’ often involves generalizations that flatten the particular. Critiquing the colonialist, imperialist, and Eurocentric perspectives that have historically impacted theorization in general and, more specifically, knowledge production about the so-called Global South, this volume seeks a different form of engagement that moves beyond such strictures. Featuring essays that unsettle distinctions between the general and the particular, it proposes a commitment to expanding notions of universality, making theorization not only relevant and generative, but ultimately, transformative.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Displacing Theory: Berlin Notes
- History of Knowledge through the Global South: A Case for Entangled Ecologies
- Decolonialities and the Exilic Consciousness: Thinking from the Global South
- Berlin’s Killjoys: Feminist Art from the Global South
- Challenges of Southern Knowledge Production: Reflections on/through Iran
- Invitation, To Exi(s)t
- To Be Given Names: Displaced Social Positionalities in Senegal and Angola
- Marx on the Periphery: The Making of a New Tradition at the University of São Paulo
- Inner World and Milieu: Art, Madness, and Brazilian Psychiatry in the Work of Nise da Silveira
- Kill your Darlings (Working Title)
- Making Germany’s Hidden Yet Omnipresent Colonial Past Visible
- Object: This Not-a-Paper ‘on’ the Andropobscenic University
