Race, decoloniality and the will for alterity: A critical-ethical approach to racial (de-)subjection and subjectivation in the modern state

种族、非殖民性和异性意志：现代国家中种族（去）服从和主体化的批判伦理方法

• 批准号: 2748827
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2748827
• 关键词: Race; decoloniality; will; alterity; critical

Globally, the past decade has seen ever-increasing socio-political concern regarding race and racism,from growing BLM and indigenous rights movements to the divisive policies/rhetoric of populist-rightparties. Individuals increasingly reflect on how their lives, their experience of the social world, and theirvery self-understanding (i.e., their subjectivities) are constituted by 'race'. But how exactly has this'racialisation' come to be? What problems does this cause for individuals/societies? And, how could weconceive of possible alternatives to problematic racialisation? In my research, I aim to explore thesequestions through the elaboration of an original 'critical-ethical' framework that (primarily) draws on thelate writings of Michel Foucault, but also supplements them via a critical-constructive dialogue with 'nonWestern' philosophies. 'Critical-ethical' reflects Foucault's (2007) suggestion that 'critique' is groundedon a distinctive 'ethos', driven by a will to (particularised) freedom(s), among these the freedom tobecome otherwise than that which one is constituted (or 'subjected') as (Foucault, 1984).My research begins by employing genealogical methods to critically investigate racial subjection, and itsproblematic socio-political and ethical effects, in the modern state. Genealogies are historicalinvestigations that 'problematise' (i.e. reveal assumptions/contingencies in) current practices,discourses, institutions, etc., that we regard as natural or 'necessary'. I will primarily draw on historicalinformation from the UK, but also compare and contrast this to racialisation in the US and Latin America.By singling out 'racial subjection', I will contribute to Foucault's (1997) own, and to other (Stoler, 1994;McWhorter, 2009), broader genealogies of 'race'. Racial subjection, I argue, lies at the core of racialrepressions and antagonisms witnessed in modern states. Thus, this research is key in getting a betterphilosophical understanding of these wider issues.

在全球范围内，从日益增长的土地管理和土著权利运动到民粹主义右翼政党的分裂政策/言论，过去十年中，关于种族和种族主义的社会政治关注不断增加。个人越来越多地反思他们的生活，他们对社会世界的体验，以及他们对自我的理解（即他们的主体性）是如何由“种族”构成的。但这种“种族化”究竟是如何形成的呢？这给个人/社会带来了什么问题？而且，我们怎样才能想出可能的替代方案来解决有问题的种族化？在我的研究中，我的目标是通过阐述一个原创的“批判伦理”框架来探索这些问题，这个框架（主要）借鉴了米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault）的晚期著作，但也通过与“非西方”哲学的批判性建设性对话来补充这些问题。“批判伦理”反映了福柯（2007）的建议，即“批判”以一种独特的“精神”为基础，由一种（特定的）自由的意志驱动，其中包括与一个人被构成（或“服从”）的自由不同的自由（福柯，1984）。我的研究开始于采用家谱的方法来批判性地调查种族从属，以及它在现代国家中有问题的社会政治和伦理影响。家谱是一种历史调查，它将我们认为自然或“必要”的当前实践、话语、制度等“问题化”（即揭示假设/偶然事件）。我将主要利用来自英国的历史信息，但也将其与美国和拉丁美洲的种族化进行比较和对比。通过挑出“种族从属”，我将为福柯（1997）自己和其他（Stoler, 1994;McWhorter, 2009）更广泛的“种族”谱系做出贡献。我认为，种族从属是现代国家种族压迫和对立的核心。因此，这项研究是对这些更广泛的问题进行更好的哲学理解的关键。