Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality by Mor

Description: Performing Indigeneity by Morgan Ndlovu Ndlovu provides an insightful evaluation of what could constitute an `authentic indigenous agency among the colonial subalterns in India, Australia, Canada, Africa and the Americas. A sharp critique of the performance of indigeneity under modernity and coloniality which challenges Western stereotypes of colonised subjects. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Colonised subjects can play roles that sustain the power structure of coloniality. In this book, Morgan Ndlovu asks why people help support a system responsible for their own subjugation.Morgan Ndlovu provides a critique of the agency of the colonised subjects as exercised under coloniality. Eschewing abstract theory, he takes a `bottom up approach to theorising the agency of indigenous people. Through analysis of the experiences of the performance of indigeneity and the staged representations of commodified culture in South Africa, he recognises the efforts of the colonised subjects and the conditions under which they survive. However, he also cautions against choices and actions that may aggravate their conditions.Performing Indigeneity provides an insightful evaluation of what could constitute an `authentic indigenous agency among the colonial subalterns in India, Australia, Canada, Africa and the Americas. Author Biography Morgan Ndlovu is Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of South Africa and a founding member of the Africa Decolonial Research Network. He is the author of Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality (Pluto, 2019). Table of Contents Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Why Performing Indigeneity Matters2. Decolonising the Drama-Stage Conundrum3. The Invasion of African Culture4. Being and Becoming Zulu in Modern/Colonial South Africa5. The Idea of Cultural Villages in South Africa6. The Crisis of Indigenous Agency in Cultural Villages7. Being and Becoming a Traditional Healer in Modern South Africa8. Performing Indigeneity: A Global PerspectiveAppendix: List of Cultural Villages in South AfricaReferencesIndex Review In this enriching book, Morgan Ndlovu has joined the exalted list of intellectuals of the Global South such as Valentin Mudimbe and Edward Said that have been called whistle blowers against ideologies of Otherness. How coloniality of knowledge masquerades as indigeneity is unmasked and the many-layered onion of cultural imperialism is peeled. This is a disobedient decolonial treatise that throws a telling tantrum at the cognitive Empire -- William Mpofu, University of the Witwatersrand A magisterial study that draws our attention to the dark side of colonial imaginaries of indigeneity and cultural tourism in the post-colony. Ndlovu is profound and prosaic, this book joins the ranks of contemporary voices from the Global South that can only be ignored at our own peril -- Finex Ndhlovu, Associate Professor of Language in Society, University of New England, Australia Review Quote In this enriching book, Morgan Ndlovu has joined the exalted list of intellectuals of the Global South such as Valentin Mudimbe and Edward Said that have been called whistle blowers against ideologies of Otherness. How coloniality of knowledge masquerades as indigeneity is unmasked and the many-layered onion of cultural imperialism is peeled. This is a disobedient decolonial treatise that throws a telling tantrum at the cognitive Empire Details ISBN0745338593 Author Morgan Ndlovu Pages 208 Publisher Pluto Press Series Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons Year 2019 ISBN-10 0745338593 ISBN-13 9780745338590 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2019-01-20 Short Title Performing Indigeneity Language English Subtitle Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality DEWEY 305.8 UK Release Date 2019-01-20 Imprint Pluto Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2019-01-20 NZ Release Date 2019-01-20 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161822434;

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