Exploiting the ambivalence of a crisis: A practitioner reads 'diversity training' through Homi Bhabha

Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 143-158

  Biccum, April R ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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References (37)

1. See DFID, 'Spreading the word, building support for development', Developments: The International Development Magazine, 2000.
2. Spivak herself no longer uses this terminology but it has been widely taken up by educational practitioners utilising a critical pedagogy as political praxis. For more on the trajectory of the idea of 'transnational literacy', see Diana Brydon, 'Postcolonialism Now: Autonomy, Cosmopolitanism, and Diaspora'.
3. A. Kundnani, 'The death of multi-culturalism', Independent Race and Refugee News Network, Institute of Race Relations, 2002.
4. E. Said, Orientalism, London: Penguin, 1995.
5. R. Young, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, New York/ London: Routledge, 1995.
6. J. McLeod, Beginning Postcolonialism, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
7. J. Derrida, Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass, Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982; and J. Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Spivak, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.
8. G. C. Spivak, The Postcolonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues, New York: Routledge, 1987. Spivak has recently distanced herself from this term as well.
9. Derrida, Margins of Philosophy; and Derrida, Of Grammatology.
10. H. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 55-9.
11. Elsewhere I have made the case, using post-colonial theory, for a direct line of continuation between colonial and development discourse.
12. G. Prakash (1992), 'Postcolonial criticism and Indian historiography', Social Text, 31/32: 8-20 at 17.
13. Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine, New York/London: Routledge, 1993; and S. Morton, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, London: Routledge, 2003.
14. Spivak, The Postcolonial Critic.
15. Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine; G. C. Spivak, Landry and MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, New York/ London: Routledge, 1996; and Spivak, The Postcolonial Critic.
16. Morton, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, p. 43.
17. Spivak, The Postcolonial Critic; and Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine.
18. Derrida, Of Grammatology.
19. T. Ponniah, 'The World Social Forum: the revolution of our time', interviewed by A. Biccum (2004), in Situation Analysis: A Forum for Critical Thought and International Current Affairs, 4: (Autumn), 7-15; and C. Whitaker, 'The World Social Forum: recovering utopia', interviewed by V. Andreotti (2004), in Situation Analysis: A Forum for Critical Thought and International Current Affairs, 4: (Autumn), 111-21.
20. V. Andreotti (2005), 'The other worlds educational project and the challenge and possibility of ''open spaces'' ', Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organisation, 5: 102-15 at 106.
21. Kundnani, 'The death of multi-culturalism'.
22. A. McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, New York: Routledge, 1992. All images referred to come from McClintock, Imperial Leather, pp. 213, 218, 221, 224 and 225.
23. McClintock, Imperial Leather, pp. 212-13.
24. McClintock, Imperial Leather.
25. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, p. 123.
26. For elucidation and evidence for this argument see McClintock 1992.
27. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, p. 76.
28. For an argument to this effect in the context of the United States see J. Olson, The Abolition of White Democracy, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. In it, Olson shows that in the context of the United States democracy is always/already paradoxical and citizenship in this context is always/already racialised.
29. Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine.
30. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, p. 9.
31. For a description of the 'new culture of politics' as it manifests itself in the anti-globalisation movement and the World Social Forum, see Sen et al., 'Challenging empires' and the special edition of Ephemera devoted to social forums at www.ephemeraweb.org.
32. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, p. 12.
33. For a description of pastoralism as a risk in critical pedagogies see C. Menezes (2004), 'Thinking critically of critical teaching: critical pedagogies revisited', Situation Analysis, 21-31.
34. Menezes, 'Thinking Critically of Critical Teaching'; and P. Sherman Gordan and C. Albrecht-Crane (2005), 'Critical pedagogy in conservative contexts: introduction', Cultural Studies, 19:407-14.
35. I am indebted to Dylan Rodrigues, whom I recently encountered at the University of California Humanities Research Institute's Summer Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, for this phrase.
36. I am grateful to my colleague Andrew Robinson for a succinct clarification of this idea.
37. J. Derrida, Aporias, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993, p. 19.