Anticolonial Modernity and the Global Commons
Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon
As Dipesh Chakrabarty (2021) has noted, many recent critical reflections on the Anthropocene fail to consider the perspective of anticolonial modernization movements. Irreducible to mere mimicries of western modernity, such movements display an emancipationist – even spiritual – impulse that continues to shape political and economic aspirations across the “global South,” where the idea that the larger project of modernity ought to be abandoned is finding little ...