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Lyn Ossome - Democracy’s Subjections, Inbunden

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Democracy’s Subjections

Colonial Modernity and the Gendered Subject of Violence

Av Lyn Ossome

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Beskrivning
In this ground-breaking study, Lyn Ossome offers an authoritative, interdisciplinary theory of how postcolonial capitalist democracies reproduce the gendered forms of violence essential to colonial rule.Through an interdisciplinary methodology traversing political studies, feminist political economy, historical and literary studies, Ossome shows how postcolonial, capitalist democracies in Africa, like their colonial antecedents, use various identity-markers to determine whose rights and bodies are violable, to what extent, and whether and how the violated have a right to resist. The book critically reflects on the dilemmas and contradictions produced by the colonial encounter and its subjugative orders for the postcolonial democratizing state, interrogating why the failures of democratic institutions target gendered, labouring bodies. Through evidence gathered from colonial archives in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, as well as through critical comparisons of two artistic responses to gender-based violence and rape in South Africa and India, Ossome offers a trenchant critique that, beyond the contexts analysed, is relevant across the postcolonial Global South.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-03
  • Mått: 160 x 236 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 520 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781350545236
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Lyn Ossome is Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, Uganda, where she is also Associate Professor.

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A powerful and incisive account of democracy’s entanglement with violence in the postcolony, this book lays bare the limits of the liberal democratic project in the postcolonial context. A must-read for anyone rethinking postcolonialism’s fraught relationship to Enlightenment legacies, it shows how democracy is often deployed as an alibi for violence by modern states, especially gendered violence carried out in its name. Centering women as both subjects of violation and as laboring, gendered agents of anti- and postcolonial struggle, the book makes a vital intervention in postcolonial feminist scholarship. Drawing on experiences from colonial and postcolonial Africa, it challenges readers to rethink both the promises and the failures of the democratizing process. Urgent, original, and deeply thought-provoking, it will reshape debates across disciplines.

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