Sexuality, Capitalism, and Africa. Issue 51 (1st October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Winkler, Rafael
• Is Part Of: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Issue 51:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 283
• Page End: 287
• Publication Date: 2020-10-01
• Subjects: neoliberalism -- identity politics; Phenomenology -- Periodicals; Fenomenologie; Filosofie; Phénoménologie -- Périodiques; Phenomenology; Periodicals; 142.7
• DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2020.1732579
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0007-1773

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This piece provides a general overview and analysis of the current imperative to decolonize in South Africa, linking the recent turn to identity politics with the transformation of the university in a neoliberal institution. Before introducing the several pieces that make up this special issue, the proposal is made that colonisation is perhaps best seen as a phenomenon that lies at the intersection of sexuality, capitalism and "Africa", provided the latter is understood not necessarily or not only in a geographical sense as denoting a continent but, rater, as the devalued yet dangerous Other of the West.