- The point is made by S. Žižek, “A Plea for a Return to Differánce“ (2006) 32(2) Critical Inquiry 236–38.
- Aníbal Quijano. 'Colonialidad del Poder, Eurocentrismo y América Latina' in La Colonialidad del Saber: Eurocentrismo y Ciencias Sociales. Perspectivas Latinoamericanas, compiled by Edgardo Lander (Buenos Aires: Clacso, 2000), 202.
- Giorgio Agamben, 'We, Refugees' available online at http://www.egs.edu/faculty/agamben/agamben-we-refugees.html.
- P. Linebaugh and M. Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra (Boston, Il: Beacon Press, 2002).
- On the key distinction between the “determinate” and the “responsive”, and the faux secularism of modern law, see Peter Fitzpatrick, “‘In God We Trust' Can Relieve Us of Trusting Each Other”, interview in The Believer, Volume 3, Number 8, October 2005.
- On systems theory in the examination of oppositional global movements, see Arturo Escobar, “Other Worlds Are (Already) Possible: Self-Organisation, Complexity and Post-Capitalist Cultures” in Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar and Peter Waterman (eds.), World Social Forum: Challenging Empires (New Delhi: The Viveka Foundation, 2004), 349–58. See also Santiago Castro-Gómez and Óscar Guardiola-Rivera, “The Convergence of World-Historical Social Science, or Can There Be a Shared Methodology for World-Systems Analysis, Postcolonial Theory and Subaltern Studies?” in R. Grosfoguel and A. M. Cervantes (eds.), The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002), 237–50, and Khaldoun Subhi Samman, “The Convergence of World-Historical Social Science: ‘Border Thinking’ as an Alternative to the Classical Comparative Method” in the same volume, 267.
- Castro-Gómez and Guardiola-Rivera, ibid. 238. Our argument can be traced back to a point made in 1973 by philosopher Enrique Dussel (against Levinas) concerning the proper distinction between the coloniser and the national elites (or “Europe”, as totality and imaginary identification) and “the people” (as the element subtracted from such a totality).
- Ibid.
- Otherwise one misunderstands the puzzling statements of Subcomandante Marcos: “Marcos does not exist. He was born dead on January 1st (1994)”, but also the notion of the indigenous as a modern image of the universal. For historical precedents of this move consider the declaration of “blackness” as an image of the universal during the Haitian revolution of 1805. See on the quote and the notion, Subcomandante Marcos and Yvon Le Bon, El Sueño Zapatista (Barcelona: Anagrama, 1997), 15, 21–23.
- Walter Mignolo calls this “geopolitics of knowledge”. See The Darker Side of the Renaissance. Literacy, Coloniality & Colonization (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), and Local Histories/Global Designs. Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
- On “self-colonisation” see Santiago Castro-Gómez and Óscar Guardiola-Rivera, “The Convergence of World-Historical Social Science, or Can There Be a Shared Methodology for World-Systems Analysis, Postcolonial Theory and Subaltern Studies?” in R. Grosfoguel and A. M. Cervantes (eds.), The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002), 245.
- Žižek, above nl. I have followed his argument closely in the previous paragraphs, for it seems to me to converge neatly with those of Dussel and Laclau.
- My reference is to the path-breaking work being done by Hassan El Menyawi, concerning the relationship between human rights, the instrumentalisation of Islam by mid-Eastern governments and elites and certain constructions of Homosexuality.
- Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures. Legal regimes in World History, 1400–1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 13.
- This is a comment on Santos' claim that “we have no need of a general theory, but still need a general theory on the impossibility of a general theory”, which I find rather obfuscating. See Boaventura de Sousa Santos, “The World Social Forum: Toward a Counter-Hegemonic Globalisation (Part II)” in Jai Sen et al, above n6, 341.
- Retort: I. Boal, T. J. Clark, J. Matthews and M. Watts, Afflicted Powers. Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (London: Verso, 2005), 136.
- Nicaragua v United States of America, Provisional Measures, Order of 10 May 1984 [1984] ICJ Rep 169; Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment [1984] ICJ Rep 392; Merits, Judgment [1986] ICJ Rep 14.
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