Choose Your Bearing

Benjamin P. Davis

Choose Your Bearing
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 August 2023
Pages
264
ISBN
9781399522434

Choose Your Bearing

Benjamin P. Davis

What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher douard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: 'You must choose your bearing'. Informed by the prayer camps at Standing Rock, and presenting Glissant alongside Stuart Hall, Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Anzalda and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book offers an urgent ethics for the present an ethics of risk, commitment and care that together form a new sense of decolonial responsibility.

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