DISP: Rethinking Development's ArchivesMain MenuDeconstructing DevelopmentIntroductionThis collection of works explores the idea and practice of "development", seeking to challenge what has been taught in the Western canon by bringing forth scholarship from the Middle East, mainly written by womenI. Gender"The ungendered body does not exist"II. Modernization"Thinking otherwise" on modernity and progressIII. SovereigntyPracticing culture, community, and self without dominationIV. DignityHolding onto inherent self-worthReview of Imagine Otherwise Podcast "Lila Sharif on the Settler Colonial Politics of Food"AfterwordMusings about the research process and situating this work in a broader agenda to "decolonize the curriculum"Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630
Maghreb Pluriel
1media/Abdelkebir-Khatibi.gif2020-05-09T21:59:08-07:00Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630373994by Abdelkebir Khatibiimage_header2020-05-10T13:07:40-07:00Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630Written in French, this book compiles various essays and writings by Abdelkebir Khatibi on postcolonialism specific to the Maghreb region in North Africa. For Khatibi, decolonization constitutes the deconstruction of the discourses that contribute to imperial domination. In the Arab world, there is the double task of deconstructing Western and Islamic metaphysics. In order to do this, he believes one must commit to penséeautre, or “thinking otherwise”. This mode of thought is open to plurality, difference, and discontinuity. This pluriel thinking challenges the concept of development, which reduced societies and individuals to their ability of self-sufficiency. Instead, a self-critical discourse will enable the creation of new North African social structures. Khatibi engages in discussion with the works of Fanon, Marx, and Ibn Khaldun to produce his own unique thinking on the Maghreb.[1]
[1]I used both the original French text and the translation into English by P. Burcu Yalim to inform this entry.
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