In 2016, Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr inaugurated in Dakar the Workshops of thinking (Ateliers de la pensée) in which intellectuals, artists and academics from Africa and the diaspora participated. They debated the place that Africa occupies within the new global order with regard to both the socio-political and economic field and the cultural one. These meetings brought out the collection Écrire l’Afrique-Monde (2017) which presented itself a thought-action in support of the blurring of borders and categories and against any totalising form of (western) dominant thinking in order to shape a decolonised epistemology. My aim is to question Édouard Glissant’s “archipelagic thinking” in light of the reflections presented in the volume to assess the relevance of a relational approach. First, I will examine the arguments introduced in the foreword to the collection, from which emerges a rhetoric of the manifesto. In addition, I will try to retrace the global cartography according to the collective’s vision, introducing the analysis of the lexeme “world” which has been extensively evoked in decolonial theories before being merged into Global studies. The relational approach calls upon a plurality of theories akin to “Border thinking” that shape a pragmatics of connection. Finally, I will show to what extent this pragmatics challenges the self-reflexive thinking celebrated in the volume in so far as “Africa” as a subject is called to develop paradigms from indigenous philosophy in order to decompartmentalize a comprehensive epistemology.
Nel 2016, Achille Mbembe e Felwine Sarr inaugurano a Dakar i Workshop del pensiero (Ateliers de la pensée) ai quali partecipano intellettuali, artisti e accademici africani e della diaspora per discutere sul ruolo dell’Africa nel nuovo assetto planetario sia in ambito sociopolitico ed economico sia in quello culturale. Gli incontri hanno dato vita al collettano Écrire l’Afrique-Monde (2017) che si annuncia come un pensiero-azione in difesa della compenetrazione e sfumature di confini e categorie contro ogni forma totalizzante di pensiero dominante (occidentale) al fine di sagomare un’epistemologia decolonizzata. Il “pensiero arcipelago” elaborato da Édouard Glissant sarà l’oggetto dei nostri interrogativi alla luce delle riflessioni che figurano all’interno del volume con l’obiettivo di valutare la pertinenza di un approccio relazionale. Avvieremo l’analisi illustrando le argomentazioni presentate nella prefazione della raccolta dalla quale emerge una retorica del manifesto. Tenteremo di disegnare la cartografia planetaria, secondo la visione proposta dal collettivo, proponendo un’analisi del lessema “mondo”, ampiamente evocato nelle teorie decoloniali prima di confluire negli studi mondiali (o Global studies). L’approccio relazionale chiama in causa una pluralità di teorie, affini al “pensiero di confine”, capaci di definire una pragmatica connettiva. Mostreremo, infine, come questa pragmatica solleciti il pensiero autoriflessivo, celebrato nel volume, nella misura in cui il soggetto “Africa” è chiamato a elaborare dei paradigmi della filosofia autoctona al fine di decompartimentalizzare un’epistemologia inclusiva.
Tarquini, V. (2020). Quelles perspectives pour l’Afrique-Monde ? Une étude relationnelle. TRANS(25) [10.4000/trans.3464].
Quelles perspectives pour l’Afrique-Monde ? Une étude relationnelle
Tarquini, Valentina
2020-01-01
Abstract
In 2016, Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr inaugurated in Dakar the Workshops of thinking (Ateliers de la pensée) in which intellectuals, artists and academics from Africa and the diaspora participated. They debated the place that Africa occupies within the new global order with regard to both the socio-political and economic field and the cultural one. These meetings brought out the collection Écrire l’Afrique-Monde (2017) which presented itself a thought-action in support of the blurring of borders and categories and against any totalising form of (western) dominant thinking in order to shape a decolonised epistemology. My aim is to question Édouard Glissant’s “archipelagic thinking” in light of the reflections presented in the volume to assess the relevance of a relational approach. First, I will examine the arguments introduced in the foreword to the collection, from which emerges a rhetoric of the manifesto. In addition, I will try to retrace the global cartography according to the collective’s vision, introducing the analysis of the lexeme “world” which has been extensively evoked in decolonial theories before being merged into Global studies. The relational approach calls upon a plurality of theories akin to “Border thinking” that shape a pragmatics of connection. Finally, I will show to what extent this pragmatics challenges the self-reflexive thinking celebrated in the volume in so far as “Africa” as a subject is called to develop paradigms from indigenous philosophy in order to decompartmentalize a comprehensive epistemology.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.