The psychology of oppression and liberation
What would Fanon say about the ongoing genocide in Palestine?
What would Fanon say about the ongoing genocide in Palestine?
On the island of Fanon’s birth, French colonial violence persists.
It is no surprise that even today, Europe only feels guilt about the episode of the Holocaust and not the principle of genocide which made it possible.
Fanon Studies has stubbornly failed to consider how Algeria may illuminate Frantz Fanon’s theoretical commitments.
Although he was a spokesperson for the Algerian National Liberation Front, Frantz Fanon’s ideas often came at odds with that movement’s political demands.
This week on AIAC Talk, we speak with Leswin Laubscher and Derek Hook about the phenomenology of Franz Fanon and the ways he is understood throughout different eras of time.
How racialized intellectual outputs placed in just the right circumstances can do the most damage.
French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn't changed much.
The works of Frantz Fanon can be read as architectural renderings of rights, futures, and generations toward a “very different Afro-futurism.”
Mbembe’s 'Critique of Black Reason' is useful for our analysis of the postcolonial present.
'Alienation and Freedom,' a massive collection of Frantz Fanon's works, reveals his intellectual and political motivations, but also proves him enigmatic and inscrutable as ever.
The complicated relationship of Jean -Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon.
The glut of books on Fanon serve as a guide for reading him through the challenges of our present. But they also reveal the extent to which reading Fanon today is not such a straightforward operation.
One of the most enduring legacies of colonialism is the idea that it is impossible to contemplate a future in which the rest of the world does not resemble Europe.
Racism against its black citizens permeates the social, institutional, and political strata of Tunisia.
In 1953 Fanon moved to Algeria to work in the small town of Blida, about 50
Frantz Fanon remains vital not only for his bracing anti-racism and anti-colonialism, but equally for the less-recognized, empathetic politics of solidarity he cultivated and exemplified.
To what extent has South Africa and South Africans failed to address the aftermath of Apartheid, the resonances of which can be felt to this day? To what extent are we living in a post-traumatic space?
Achille Mbembe argues that “decolonization” is in truth a psychic state more than a political project in the strict sense of the term.
Namibian filmmaker, Perivi John Katjavivi: The black voice in cinema occurs on the margins and is filtered, distorted, watered-down, negotiated, corrupted.