Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities

<p><i>The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities </i>provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian African and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis. The contestation of the Northern myth of the autonomous subject—the dispositive that contests subject formation in the South by describing it as fragmented incomplete delayed or simply deviant has been a cornerstone of theory production from the South over the years.</p><p>This volume’s contributions offer an interdisciplinary and transarea dialogue reframing issues of selfhood and alterity of personhood of the human of the commons and contesting the North’s presumption in determining what kind of subjectivities abide by its norms whose voices are heard who is recognised as a subject and by extension whose lives matter. In the context of the shifting dynamics of today’s manifold crises they raise questions regarding how subjectivities act on or resist such forms of contestation contingency and indeterminacy.</p><p>A major contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the Global South this handbook will be an essential resource for students scholars researchers and instructors in literature media and culture studies sociology anthropology philosophy law politics visual arts and art history.</p>