The postcolonial flaneur and other fellow-travellers: Conceits for a narrative of redemption

Williams, Adebayo

doi:10.1080/01436599714614

Cited by 27 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Old, spluttering vehicles were stopped at roadblocks more often than newer ones. 12 Death (2013, p. 769), citing Williams (1997), writes that some critiques of Foucault see him as "having little of value to say to those outside metropolitan café culture." 13 This is not to discount practices that present as "corrupt," like soliciting bribes, but to attend to the centrality of the human element in the system as a whole.…”

Section: E N D N O T E Smentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Citizens in uniform

Takabvirwa

2023

American Ethnologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Amid economic and sociopolitical turmoil in Zimbabwe, police roadblocks proliferated throughout the country, creating sites not only of extraction but also of citizen engagement. These sites show that sociality mediates policing, as police and policed together negotiate the precarities of living in the wake of crisis. Roadblocks are key to the performance of the state as such. Yet this occasions the very stage on which the state's failings are manifested, as officers are rendered highly visible and scrutable on the road—this visibility is central to sociality, in a mechanism of power that relies on enfleshing the system of policing by those through whom the state acts. Whereas conceptualizations of governance in Africa often take people as a corrupting element, here, the peopling of the system is central to its operation. Encounters at roadblocks invite a reconsideration of reified ideals of policing and power in governance, including reified concepts of disciplinary power.

show abstract

Section: E N D N O T E Smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1212Death (2013, p. 769), citing Williams (1997), writes that some critiques of Foucault see him as “having little of value to say to those outside metropolitan café culture.”…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizens in uniform

Takabvirwa

2023

American Ethnologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…These forms of power conduct people's conduct from a distance, as aggregate populations and as individuals, so as to secure semi-natural processes (such as population, society or economy). 6 While some scholars have questioned governmentality's applicability outside Europe (Williams, 1997;Joseph, 2010), others have countered that governmentality has spread around the globe as a result of European colonisation (Abrahamsen, 2003) as well as noting the constitutive role of the colonies in shaping European societies (Stoler, 1995). 7 We acknowledge the constitutive role of colonial relations in shaping the emergence of these discourses within the West (see Stoler, 1995;Mitchell, 1991).…”

Section: Governmentality and Counter-conductsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts

Anthias

Hoffmann

2021

Geoforum

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…However, there is also an embedded and palpable apprehension about the possible replication of old hierarchies through new agents from Asia. As Williams () reminds us, theories from the Global South, such as postcolonialism, also tend to privilege one set of experiences (those of South Asia) over the experiences of others from different societies in Africa. The “postcolonial flaneur ” and its “narrative of redemption,” he argues, are characterized by ignorance of the experiences of fellow travelers (Williams ).…”

Section: Silences Of Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Africa and the Theoretical Peace in IR

Thakur

2015

Int Polit Sociol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article responds to the debate on “The End of IR Theory?” that appeared in a recent volume of the European Journal of International Relations. It argues that the pronouncements about “theoretical peace” carry the subtext of “epistemic violence,” foreclosing the debate and the possibility of theoretic interventions emerging from the non‐West—in this case, Africa. Elucidating how IR theory (IRT) has remained a parochial enterprise by the deliberate silencing of Africa, the article then finds pathways by which Africa can contribute to IRT. Using the metaphor of storytelling, it lists eight different ways in which Africa can tell new stories in IR.

show abstract

The postcolonial flaneur and other fellow-travellers: Conceits for a narrative of redemption

Cited by 27 publications

References 0 publications

Citizens in uniform

Citizens in uniform

The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts

Africa and the Theoretical Peace in IR

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About