Political Philosophy from an Intercultural Perspective: Power Relations in a Global World

0549642 - FLÚ 2022 RIV US eng M - Monography Chapter
Kasanda, Albert
Negotiating African Identity in Times of Globalization: A Comparative Approach to Afropolitanism and Negritude.
Political Philosophy from an Intercultural Perspective: Power Relations in a Global World. New York: Routledge, 2021 - (Boteva-Richter, B.; Dhouib, S.; Garrisson, J.), s. 33-57. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. ISBN 978-0-367-44541-6; ISBN 978-1-032-02322-9
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/15
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Afropolitanism * Negritude * globalization * identity * Africa
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003014324-4

Globalization generated a complex debate on the future of both the humankind cultures and people identities. From one side, a range of theorists sustains that this process leads to the absorption of weaker cultures and identities by the strongest ones, while from the other side, various thinkers consider that current globalization allows the emergence of multiple cultures and identities all over the world. The paper stands on this framework to explore and to compare two African discourses on identity including Afropolitanism and Negritude. Afropolitanism is perceived as a critical thinking about universalism and monolithic world view. As such, this paradigm sustains both the plurality of cultures and the emergence of hybrid identities. Negritude combines two objectives: on the one hand, it denounces the destruction of Negro-African cultures and black people’s identity, while on the other hand, it claims the proudness of being black, as well as it demands the rehabilitation of black people’s values and traditions. This discourse relies on an essentialist logic that ignores the multiplicity of Negro-African trajectories and identities so that it allows a mono-cultural world view. The paper argues that, while sharing the support for the permanence of African identity in this global era, both the paradigms remain performative, as culture and identity are in constant mutation.
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