Planetary Longings
1st Edition
Published on 7. March 2022
352 pages
978-1-4780-2290-9 (ISBN)
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Tracing colonialism alongside the history of anticolonial struggles in the Americas, Mary Louise Pratt shows how the turn of the twenty-first century marks a catastrophic turning point in the human and planetary condition.
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Mary Louise Pratt is Silver Professor, Emerita, of Spanish and Portuguese and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, at Stanford University. She is coeditor of Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship and author of Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Sitting in the Light of the Great Solar TV 1
Part I. Future Tensions
1.Modernity's False Promises 33
2. Why the Virgin of Zapopan Went to Los Angeles 56
3. Mobility and the Politics of Belonging 75
4. Fire, Water, and Wandering Women 90
5. Planetarized Indigeneity 107
6. Anthropocene as Concept and Chronotope 117
7. Mutations of the Contact Zone: Human to More-Than-Human 125
8. Is This Gitmo or Club Med? 137
9. Authoritarianism 2020: Lessons from Chile 144
Part II. Coloniality, Indigeneity, and the Traffic in Meaning
10. The Ethnographer's Arrival 165
11. Rigoberta Menchú and the Geopolitics of Truth 189
12. The Politics of Reenactment 207
13. Translation, Contagion, Infiltration 220
14. Thinking across the Colonial Divide 234
15. The Futurology of Independence 251
16. Remembering Anticolonialism 265
Coda: Airways, the Politics of Breath 276
Notes 281
References 299
Index 323
Publication History 339
Introduction. Sitting in the Light of the Great Solar TV 1
Part I. Future Tensions
1.Modernity's False Promises 33
2. Why the Virgin of Zapopan Went to Los Angeles 56
3. Mobility and the Politics of Belonging 75
4. Fire, Water, and Wandering Women 90
5. Planetarized Indigeneity 107
6. Anthropocene as Concept and Chronotope 117
7. Mutations of the Contact Zone: Human to More-Than-Human 125
8. Is This Gitmo or Club Med? 137
9. Authoritarianism 2020: Lessons from Chile 144
Part II. Coloniality, Indigeneity, and the Traffic in Meaning
10. The Ethnographer's Arrival 165
11. Rigoberta Menchú and the Geopolitics of Truth 189
12. The Politics of Reenactment 207
13. Translation, Contagion, Infiltration 220
14. Thinking across the Colonial Divide 234
15. The Futurology of Independence 251
16. Remembering Anticolonialism 265
Coda: Airways, the Politics of Breath 276
Notes 281
References 299
Index 323
Publication History 339
