Practices of Disciplinary Refusal for New Futures

On Critique and Humanism

P. Khalil Saucier

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798765152386
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African American History
• Index: History

Breaking from Western disciplinary status quo, this book explores the politics of disciplinary refusal and presents alternative ways of seeing the world.

Drawing from the Black radical tradition, P. Khalil Saucier and the contributors challenge normative assertions about power and develop alternate ways of conceptualizing society. The chapters create onto-epistemological grounds for discovery and by extension a domain to experiment with living differently. The authors illustrate how political typologies, often indebted to Enlightenment thought and frequently used to shape discourses of sovereignty, nationalism and globalization, are organized by violence and sentient disavowal. While each chapter works with specific themes and topics, each labor in speculative solidarity with one another in order to identify key issues within racial politics, cultural criticism, and the conceptions of historiography.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Rendering Refusal and Conscripting Future Thought P. Khalil Saucier
• 1 Refusing the Disciplinary (B)order: Knowledge Production beyond Academic Boundaries Madeline Jaye Bass
• 2 Violence and the Labor of Negation: Preliminary Notes on Refusal, Vitalism, and Antagonism Franco Barchiesi
• 3 Refuse to Live: The Dialectics of Immunology in Totalitarian Times Tryon P. Woods
• 4 Refusing the Banalization of Race: “Decolonial Refusal” and the Black Horizon Farai Chipato and David Chandler
• 5 Critique of Indigenous Reason: The Case of Palestine Zahi Zalloua
• 6 Racial Impasse, Black Fugitivity, and Fugitive Democracy: Fred Moten’s Refusals and Consents George Shulman
• Index
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