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Fanon, Violence, Racism and Embodiment: Making raced bodies and practising a new dialogue of raced bodies in situation?

  • Danielle Davis

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Abstract

In this paper I critically examine Black Existentialism and racist violence on Black being, particularly focusing on anti-black racism/anti-indigenous racism (which I argue is a peculiar and particular kind of racism) in an Australian context. Following Fanon, I argue for strategies of both resistance and anti-racism, but also search for spaces of transgression in which we can practise being better for ourselves and being better human relations. I problematise this with a critical eye from the philosophy of Fanon and Noel A. Cazenave's The Many Fergusons: Kill Lines - the Will, the Right and the Need to Kill. Are these spaces possible and can an indigenised and creolised stratagem of resistance and transgressive practices make lives matter and defendable in, as Lewis Gordon's term, 'trying times'?
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5-15
JournalSocial Alternatives
Volume38
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 2019

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  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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