Practices of Disciplinary Refusal for New Futures

Breaking from Western disciplinary status quo, this book explores politics of disciplinary refusal and presents an alternative way of seeing the world.
This volume is an interdisciplinary collection of debates and interventions by scholars and intellectuals in Critical Black Studies, International Relations, Politics, Sociology and Philosophy. The perspectives are theoretical and practical, philosophical and historical, engaging a variety of theories and practices, issues of identity to racial politics and from cultural criticism to conceptions of historiography. The contributors explore theories oriented towards a "new humanism." Coming from varying disciplines and drawing from the Black radical tradition, contributors explore new ways to think about the world and academic boundaries. Guided by editor, P. Khalil Saucier, the book challenges normative assertions about power and develops alternate ways of conceptualizing society. The chapters create onto-epistemological grounds for discovery, a domain to experiment with living differently. The authors illustrate how the political typologies, often indebted to Enlightenment thought, frequently used to understand the relations of power as well as those shaping discourses of sovereignty, nationalism and globalization that espouse solidarity with vulnerable and oppressed people's, are organized by violence and sentient disavowal. While each chapter works with specific and particular themes and topics, each works in speculative solidarity with one another.

P. Khalil Saucier is Professor of Critical Black studies at Bucknell University, USA.