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Hace 5 días · Frantz Fanon’s writings on racism and the difference between colonial violence and violent resistance to it remain valuable today, writes Miro Sandev. Frantz Fanon was an extraordinary anti-colonial and anti-capitalist fighter. He put his life on the line to fight French colonialism.
Hace 2 días · 6 Jun 2024 Issue – Frantz Fanon, the supposed patron saint of political violence, was instead a visionary of a radical universalism that rejected racial essentialism and colonialism. Yet what if we could return to Fanon’s vision? For what he proposed was not only a robust and radical universalism but also an end to colonialism—to the assumption that it’s natural to base international ...
Hace 5 días · An introductory section introduces Fanon’s central ideas (e.g., dialecticism, existentialism, post-colonialism) in their intellectual and socio-historical context (e.g., the Algerian revolution, African decolonization, South African Apartheid, the US civil rights and women’s rights movements).
If the intellectuals of Fanon's essay asserted regional culture in response to colonialism's racism, does the same logic apply in the neocolonial context where national customs are 'celebrated' in the tourist industry?
Hace 5 días · Fanon was, as Shatz writes, partygoer and ascetic, rebel and dutiful psychiatrist, ambitious striver and selfless militant, an urbane intellectual who romanticized the peasantry and was a staunch opponent of France.
Hace 5 días · Our analysis reveals “decolonization” is often used as a liberal abstract concept divorced from material contexts. We critique this reductionism, noting how decolonization becomes a buzzword for institutional change without genuine engagement with anti-colonial movements.
Hace 6 días · Shatz's approach is to emphasise Fanon the man: the psychiatrist, the writer, the theorist, the anti-colonialist, drawing in Algeria's history, alongside other influences on him.
