Negotiating African Identity in Times of Globalization: A Comparative Approach to Afropolitanism and Negritude

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Negotiating African Identity in Times of Globalization: A Comparative Approach to Afropolitanism and Negritude

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Negotiating African Identity in Times of Globalization: A Comparative Approach to Afropolitanism and Negritude

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

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

ISBN

978-0-367-44541-6

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

33-57

Počet stran knihy

250

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

New York

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

000808375100004