Rethinking border thinking

South Atlantic Quarterly

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-60

  Michaelsen, Scott ^a   Shershow, Scott Cutler ^a  

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EID: 62249194043     PISSN: 00382876     EISSN: 15278026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2006-014     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. Walter D. Mignolo, Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 13; hereafter cited parenthetically as Local
2. Walter D. Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), 319; hereafter cited parenthetically as Darker
3. Walter D. Mignolo, "Afterword: Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Situations," in Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, ed. Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter D. Mignolo (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), 302-3; hereafter cited parenthetically as "Afterword."
4. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), 91; hereafter cited parenthetically as Grammatology
5. Margaret W. Ferguson, Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 56, discussing Mignolo, Darker, 319
6. Jacques Derrida, "Différance," in Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 15
7. Elizabeth Hill Boone, "Introduction: Writing and Recorded Knowledge," in Boone and Mignolo, Writing without Words, 7; hereafter cited parenthetically
8. Peter L. van der Loo, "Voicing the Painted Image: A Suggestion for Reading the Reverse of the Codex Cospi," in Boone and Mignolo, Writing without Words, 77
9. Jacques Derrida, Disseminations, trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 113
10. Anne Norton, 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 60
11. Rodolphe Gasché, The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul De Man (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 266
12. Quijano is affiliated both with the Universidad de San Marcos in Peru and Binghamton University in the United States. Most of his voluminous work remains untranslated into English. For Quijano's CV, see www.ces.fe.uc.pt/ernancipa/cv/ gen/quijano.html
13. Lena Delgado de Torres, "Reformulating Nationalism in the African Diaspora: The Aponte Rebellion of 1812," CR: The New Centennial Review (new series) 3.3 (Fall 2003): 27-46
14. Anibal Quijano, "Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America," Nepantla: Views from the South 1.3 (2000): 533-80; hereafter cited parenthetically
15. See Scott Michaelsen, The Limits of Multiculturalism: Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999); hereafter cited parenthetically
16. See, for instance, the essays collected by George W. Stocking Jr. in Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989)
17. Examples here would be too numerous to mention, as this distinction saturates recent literature to the point of stereotype. As a prominent example, see Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic Modernity and Double-Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 79. Thanks to Th̀eresa Meléndez for formulating this problem for us
18. Jacques Derrida, Positions, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 41; hereafter cited parenthetically. We thank Nahum D. Chandler for directing us to this passage
19. Scott Michaelsen, "Between Japanese American Internment and the USA PATRIOT Act: The Borderlands and the Permanent State of Racial Exception," Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 30.2 (Fall 2005): 87-111
20. See also Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow, "Beyond or Before the Law at Guantánamo," Peace Review 16.3 (September 2004): 293-303, at 300
21. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 1-29
22. Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow, "Does Torture Have a Future" forthcoming in boundary 2 33.3 (Fall 2006)
23. Definition from the Wikipedia, at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-democracy (accessed July 10, 2006)
24. Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 240, 238
25. Giorgio Agamben, Means without End: Notes on Politics, trans. Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 29
26. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings, ed. and trans. Victor Gourevitch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 44. Subsequent citations are given parenthetically by page number in the text. It should go without saying, perhaps, that Rousseau's formulation applies only to those within the polity. The unanimity of those within the state presupposes the state's necessary exclusivity or limit
27. Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics, trans. Gabriel Rockhill (London: Continuum, 2004), 83
28. Let us underline here that we are writing not about the Zapatistas as such but, rather, about Mignolo's representation of them. Mignolo's citations for his remarks about Zapatista governance lead to a single published article by Enrique Dussel, which argues, "Among the Maya [i.e., the Zapatista], a consensus is first reached on what needs to be done, and then a person is chosen from within the community to carry out the project. In other words, the one who rules must obey the communal consensus. And the one who obeys the ruler is, in fact, the ruler. This is Maya 'democracy' " (Enrique Dussel, "Ethnical Sense of the 1994 Maya Rebellion in Chiapas," Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 2-3 [1995]: 41-56, at 53)
29. The seemingly slight but highly significant difference, we suggest, is between Dussel's "and then" (which is in line with Aristotle's careful formulation of "democracy") and Mignolo's "at the same time" (see Aristotle, The Politics, trans. T. A. Sinclair [New York: Penguin, 1962], 1317b)