Fanon Today

Session Submission Type: Virtual Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel presents new scholarly perspectives on Frantz Fanon and his legacy for indigenous struggles, feminist politics, decolonial geography, and afropessimism. Panelists will engage Fanon’s major political works and their reception, as well as his recently published clinical writings. We will be guided by a set of questions concerning Fanon’s significance for political thinking and practice today.

Sub Unit

• Division 2: Foundations of Political Theory

Individual Presentations

• The Disorders of Violence: Fanon's Sociodiagnosis of the Family - Robyn Marasco, CUNY, Hunter College

• Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in Frantz Fanon - Begüm Adalet, Cornell University

• The Last Shall Be First - Glen Sean Coulthard

• Fanon, Wilderson, and the Work of Exhaustion - Nica Siegel, Yale

Chair

• George Ciccariello-Maher Vassar College

Discussant

• George Ciccariello-Maher Vassar College