Planetary longings / Mary Louise Pratt.

"In Planetary Longings leading postcolonial theorist and Latin American scholar Mary Louise Pratt writes from the conviction that the turn of the millennium-the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty first-have marked a turning point in the human and planetary...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Pratt, Mary Louise, 1948- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Dissident acts.
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Table of Contents:
  • Modernity's false promises
  • Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles
  • Mobility and the politics of belonging
  • Fire, water, and wandering women : apocalyptic fictions
  • Planetarizing indigeneity
  • Anthropocene as concept and chronotope
  • Mutations of the contact zone : human to more-than-human
  • Is this Gitmo or Club Med?
  • Authoritarianism 2020 : lessons from Chile
  • The ethnographer's arrival
  • Rigoberta Menchú and the geopolitics of truth
  • "Even the rain" and the politics of re-enactment
  • Translation, contagion, infiltration
  • Thinking across the colonial divide
  • The futurology of independence
  • Remembering anticolonialism.