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Practices of Disciplinary Refusal for New Futures

On Critique and Humanism

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Practices of Disciplinary Refusal for New Futures

On Critique and Humanism

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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

List of Contributors
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

Bloomsbury Academic Test
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

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P. Khalil Saucier

P. Khalil Saucier is Professor of Critical Black s…

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