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On the Question of Black Genocide.
| Resumo: | This dissertation aims to discuss how anti-Black violence should be understood as genocidal violence. Although apparently apolitical and uncontroversial, the hegemonic conception of genocide is decisively influenced by the Holocaust and the aftermath of World War II, which often becomes an impediment to think about the dynamics of violence inflicted on other ethnic groups. Within the field of Philosophy, Adorno's formulation of genocide circumscribes this expression of violence within the rationalist logic of the Enlightenment, where the extermination of pariahs becomes the only solution for a system seeking total homogenization. However, the specificity of the violence inflicted against black bodies, where exposure to death is always constant although not fully realized, challenges our understanding of genocide and what we understand as a livable life. Within this paradigm, through authors such as Frantz Fanon and Achille Mbembe, we will investigate the form of violence operating in the colonial world and its genocidal impulse. In order to reveal the persistence of such an impulse in contemporary societies, we will present an investigation of the current dynamics of Black suffering through the prism of afropessimism. From this line of inquiry, this study aims to describe the inhumane condition of Black lives and the dynamics of violence surrounding them to affirm Black genocide as the great expression of violence against Black subjects, which leads them to death or a life-in-death. |
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| Autores principais: | Santos, Felipe de Jesus |
| Assunto: | Violência Genocídio Racismo Necropolítica Filosofia Política Violence Genocide Racism Necropolitics Political Philosophy |
| Ano: | 2020 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Coimbra |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra |
| Resumo: | This dissertation aims to discuss how anti-Black violence should be understood as genocidal violence. Although apparently apolitical and uncontroversial, the hegemonic conception of genocide is decisively influenced by the Holocaust and the aftermath of World War II, which often becomes an impediment to think about the dynamics of violence inflicted on other ethnic groups. Within the field of Philosophy, Adorno's formulation of genocide circumscribes this expression of violence within the rationalist logic of the Enlightenment, where the extermination of pariahs becomes the only solution for a system seeking total homogenization. However, the specificity of the violence inflicted against black bodies, where exposure to death is always constant although not fully realized, challenges our understanding of genocide and what we understand as a livable life. Within this paradigm, through authors such as Frantz Fanon and Achille Mbembe, we will investigate the form of violence operating in the colonial world and its genocidal impulse. In order to reveal the persistence of such an impulse in contemporary societies, we will present an investigation of the current dynamics of Black suffering through the prism of afropessimism. From this line of inquiry, this study aims to describe the inhumane condition of Black lives and the dynamics of violence surrounding them to affirm Black genocide as the great expression of violence against Black subjects, which leads them to death or a life-in-death. |
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