TY - BOOK AU - Gordon,Jane Anna TI - Creolizing political theory: reading Rousseau through Fanon T2 - Just ideas SN - 9780823254859 AV - JC179.R9.G67 2014eb U1 - 320.01 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, KW - Fanon, Frantz, KW - General will KW - Legitimacy of governments KW - Political science KW - Philosophy KW - Volont�e g�en�erale KW - L�egitimit�e des gouvernements KW - PHILOSOPHY / Political KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory KW - fast KW - Political and social views KW - Creolization KW - Fanon KW - Rousseau KW - alternative methodologies KW - colonization KW - comparative political theory KW - decolonization KW - democratic legitimacy KW - national consciousness KW - revolution KW - the general will KW - Instructional and educational works KW - lcgft KW - Mat�eriel d'�education et de formation KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes chapter notes with bibliographical references (pages 221-264), bibliographical references (pages 265-285), and index; Introduction --; Delegitimating decadent inquiry --; Decolonizing disciplinary methods --; Rousseau's general will --; Fanonian national consciousness --; Thinking through creolization --; Conclusion N2 - Asking whether one can develop an approach to studying political life that reflects its heterogeneity, Jane Anna Gordon offers the creolization of political theory as a viable response. Creolization, she argues, describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=953548 ER -