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Planetary longings, Mary Louise Pratt

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"In Planetary Longings leading postcolonial theorist and Latin American scholar Mary Louise Pratt writes from the conviction that the turn of the millennium-the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty first-have marked a turning point in the human and planetary condition. The millennial pivot has called for new modes of imagining and knowledge-making, and has mobilized an array of planetarized processes, forces, and aspirations, which this book contemplates from the geohistorical terrain of the Americas. Planetary Longings studies the planetarized forces of coloniality, decolonization, and indigeneity in their pre- and post-millennial forms. A series of case studies traces the permutations of coloniality from eighteenth-century Andean colonial documents, to nineteenth-century narrative, through to twentieth-century ethnography and testimonio, and twenty-first-century film. The book likewise tracks the workings of anti-colonial and decolonizing forces from eighteenth-century rebellions through nineteenth- and-twentieth-century independence struggles to contemporary indigenous mobilizations and decolonial activism. It takes particular interest in the speculative, futurological dimensions of such projects. Indigeneity is a key through line in the book. In its newly planetarized mode, it ties together the triple catastrophe of coloniality, neoliberal extractivism, and ecological devastation"--
Language
eng
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Extent
viii, 340 pages
Contents
  • Modernity's false promises
  • Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles
  • Mobility and the politics of belonging
  • Fire, water, and wandering women : apocalyptic fictions
  • Planetarizing indigeneity
  • Anthropocene as concept and chronotope
  • Mutations of the contact zone : human to more-than-human
  • Is this Gitmo or Club Med?
  • Authoritarianism 2020 : lessons from Chile
  • The ethnographer's arrival
  • Rigoberta Menchú and the geopolitics of truth
  • "Even the rain" and the politics of re-enactment
  • Translation, contagion, infiltration
  • Thinking across the colonial divide
  • The futurology of independence
  • Remembering anticolonialism
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9781478015666
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Planetary longings
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Planetary longings
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Mary Louise Pratt
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Language
eng
Summary
"In Planetary Longings leading postcolonial theorist and Latin American scholar Mary Louise Pratt writes from the conviction that the turn of the millennium-the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty first-have marked a turning point in the human and planetary condition. The millennial pivot has called for new modes of imagining and knowledge-making, and has mobilized an array of planetarized processes, forces, and aspirations, which this book contemplates from the geohistorical terrain of the Americas. Planetary Longings studies the planetarized forces of coloniality, decolonization, and indigeneity in their pre- and post-millennial forms. A series of case studies traces the permutations of coloniality from eighteenth-century Andean colonial documents, to nineteenth-century narrative, through to twentieth-century ethnography and testimonio, and twenty-first-century film. The book likewise tracks the workings of anti-colonial and decolonizing forces from eighteenth-century rebellions through nineteenth- and-twentieth-century independence struggles to contemporary indigenous mobilizations and decolonial activism. It takes particular interest in the speculative, futurological dimensions of such projects. Indigeneity is a key through line in the book. In its newly planetarized mode, it ties together the triple catastrophe of coloniality, neoliberal extractivism, and ecological devastation"--
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Pratt, Mary Louise
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  • maps
Index
index present
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non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Decolonization
  • Postcolonialism
  • Latin America
  • Latin America
  • Décolonisation
  • Postcolonialisme
  • Amérique latine
  • Amérique latine
  • HISTORY / Latin America / General
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory
  • Civilization
  • Colonization
  • Decolonization
  • Postcolonialism
  • Latin America
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Planetary longings, Mary Louise Pratt
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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  • still image
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Contents
Modernity's false promises -- Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles -- Mobility and the politics of belonging -- Fire, water, and wandering women : apocalyptic fictions -- Planetarizing indigeneity -- Anthropocene as concept and chronotope -- Mutations of the contact zone : human to more-than-human -- Is this Gitmo or Club Med? -- Authoritarianism 2020 : lessons from Chile -- The ethnographer's arrival -- Rigoberta Menchú and the geopolitics of truth -- "Even the rain" and the politics of re-enactment -- Translation, contagion, infiltration -- Thinking across the colonial divide -- The futurology of independence -- Remembering anticolonialism
Control code
1264138933
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
viii, 340 pages
Isbn
9781478015666
Lccn
2021040564
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
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  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, map
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(OCoLC)1264138933
Label
Planetary longings, Mary Louise Pratt
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
  • cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Modernity's false promises -- Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles -- Mobility and the politics of belonging -- Fire, water, and wandering women : apocalyptic fictions -- Planetarizing indigeneity -- Anthropocene as concept and chronotope -- Mutations of the contact zone : human to more-than-human -- Is this Gitmo or Club Med? -- Authoritarianism 2020 : lessons from Chile -- The ethnographer's arrival -- Rigoberta Menchú and the geopolitics of truth -- "Even the rain" and the politics of re-enactment -- Translation, contagion, infiltration -- Thinking across the colonial divide -- The futurology of independence -- Remembering anticolonialism
Control code
1264138933
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
viii, 340 pages
Isbn
9781478015666
Lccn
2021040564
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, map
System control number
(OCoLC)1264138933

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