Negotiating African Identity in Times of Globalization: A Comparative Approach to Afropolitanism and Negritude
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Negotiating African Identity in Times of Globalization: A Comparative Approach to Afropolitanism and Negritude
Original language description
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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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Political Philosophy from an Intercultural Perspective: Power Relations in a Global World
ISBN
978-0-367-44541-6
Number of pages of the result
25
Pages from-to
33-57
Number of pages of the book
250
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
000808375100004