Anti-Colonial Solidarity

George Fourlas, is the SHIFT Endowed Associate Professor of Applied Ethics at Hampshire College and a visiting faculty member in philosophy and government at Franklin and Marshall College. George’s teaching and research take place at the intersection of social-political theory, applied ethics, critical race theory, conflict resolution, decolonial theory, and global studies. His publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Philosophy and Social Criticism. He is also a co-editor of the Radical Philosophy Review. When not working the academic grind, George enjoys spending time with his family, being outside, and practicing martial arts. Learn more about Dr. Fourlas from his website: gnfourlas.com

• Preface and AcknowledgementsBeginning with Ends1. The “Unknown” Middle Easterner: Post-Racial Anxieties and Anti-MENA Racism Throughout Colonized Space-Time2. Changing Lenses: Anti-Racist Posturing Versus Praxis, An Enactivist Critique3. Calling-In MENA Nationalists: Why Recent Geopolitical Boundaries Fail to Account for MENA Subjectivity4. Decolonizing the Ancients: Or, The Known West and the Anti-colonial Principle5. Flip the Script: Myth and Example from the Shores of Shinar6. Be Ready: Lessons from Cyprus and RojavaConclusion: MENA America and the FutureBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Political philosopher Fourlas begins his wide-ranging, stimulating discussion of how to overcome the effects of Orientalism, racism, and colonialism with a focus on racialized experiences of populations from the MENA region…. Eschewing both the status quo and Utopian dreams, Fourlas draws on examples of reciprocal-relationality found within the ancient Ionian worldview, at Babel in the plains of Shinar, in the contemporary peace movement among Turkish and Greek Cypriots, and in Kurdish non-state organization and action in Rojava. He demonstrates the possibilities, meanings, and praxis of non-domination and reconciliation across boundaries, including gender, that prove to be neither primordial nor eternal. Through epistemological decolonization and the bottom-up labor of reconciliation, democratic confederalism, consensual meaning-making, and shared leadership, Fourlas insists that the racist colonialism of the modern world can and must be eliminated.Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.