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Practices of Disciplinary Refusal for New Futures
On Critique and Humanism
Practices of Disciplinary Refusal for New Futures
On Critique and Humanism
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Description
Breaking from Western disciplinary status quo, this book explores the politics of disciplinary refusal and presents alternative ways of seeing the world.
Drawing from the Black radical tradition, P. Khalil Saucier and the contributors challenge normative assertions about power and develop alternate ways of conceptualizing society. The chapters create onto-epistemological grounds for discovery and by extension a domain to experiment with living differently. The authors illustrate how political typologies, often indebted to Enlightenment thought and frequently used to shape discourses of sovereignty, nationalism and globalization, are organized by violence and sentient disavowal. While each chapter works with specific themes and topics, each labor in speculative solidarity with one another in order to identify key issues within racial politics, cultural criticism, and the conceptions of historiography.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rendering Refusal and Conscripting Future Thought
P. Khalil Saucier (Bucknell University, USA)
1. Refusing the Disciplinary (B)order: Knowledge Production Beyond Academic Boundaries
Madeline Jaye Bass (Max Planck Institute, DE)
2. Violence and the Labor of Negation: Preliminary Notes on Refusal, Vitalism and Antagonism
Franco Barchiesi (The Ohio State University, USA)
3. Refuse to Live: The Dialectics of Immunology in Totalitarian Times
Tryon P. Woods (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, USA)
4. Refusing the Banalization of Race: Decolonial 'Refusal' and the Black Horizon
Farai Chipato (University of Glasgow, UK) and David Chandler (University of Westminster, UK)
5. Critique of Indigenous Reason: The Case of Palestine
Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)
6. Racial Impasse, Black Fugitivity and Fugitive Democracy: Fred Moten's Refusals and Consents
George Shulman (New York University, USA)
Index
Product details
| Published | 11 Jun 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9798765152393 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | New Critical Humanities |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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This book is a wonderful illustration of epistemic Sankofa. A tribute to the guiding principles of Black study and Black feminist theories, Saucier and the contributors answer the following question: what precedes discipline(s)?, by providing insights into Black radical tradition and Indigenous African forms of knowledge production. Additionally, this collection simultaneously discusses and embodies refusal in 2 ways: 1) it rejects the preoccupation of making legible disciplinary refusal in a system that oftentimes renders it a lack of knowledge and instead begins with the labor, rigor and questions involved in practicing, being a part of, and committing to the cross-disciplinary discourse; and 2) through the rejection of passivity, the collection throws the question of the future back to the reader, in order to discover new questions and possibilities within Black and blackened bodies, histories and theories.
Giramata, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, Whitman College, USA

























