X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

Chandler, Nahum Dimitri

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“…Du Bois who conceived of modern slavery as 'standing at the inception-neither inside or outside-of modern imperial colonialism, of a supposed European world economy, of capitalism as a system, of modernity as a global horizon' (Chandler, 2014: 113 n. 15). 4 Desedimentation is a term we take from Nahum Chandler who writes (Chandler, 2014: 65 À 6): 'I specifically propose this concept-metaphor here as otherwise than a procedure that might be primarily one of recovery or return. I think of it as a kind of resetting, a setting afoot or apace, a destabilization … Yet, there is in the question of desedimentation as it has acquired its coherence as a concern for me an ineluctable and intractable movement of force as a massive violence which remains, despite all manner of dissimulations, the very terms of the announcement of existence or being as a problem for thought'.…”

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Abyssal geography^†

Chandler

Pugh

2023

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Today, we are held to live in the Anthropocene, bringing to an end modern binary imaginaries, such as the separation between Human and Nature, and with them Western assumptions of progress, linear causality and human exceptionalism. Much Western critical theory, from new or vital materialism to post‐ and more‐than‐human thinking, unsurprisingly reflects this internal crisis of faith in Eurocentric or Enlightenment reasoning. At the same time, a radically different critique of modernity has gained prominence in recent years, emerging from critical Black studies, which places the Caribbean at the centre of the development of a new and distinct mode of critical thought. In attempting to grasp the ways in which Caribbean thought and practice have been seen to enable a distinctive alternative non‐Eurocentric imaginary, this paper heuristically sets out a paradigmatic framing of ‘abyssal geography’. We emphasize two key points. The first is that abyssal thought is not grounded in abstract and timeless philosophical assumptions but figuratively draws upon aspects of Caribbean practices of resistance and survival, for example, from the Middle Passage, Plantation, carnival, creolization, dance forms and speculative fiction. The second is that abyssal work engages the legacies of modernity and coloniality by explicitly seeking to question the lure of ontology: seeking to disrupt, suspend and to problematize the modern project of the human and the world.

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“…3 3 As Nahum Chandler argues, this line of (abyssal) thought can be dated back to W. E. B. Du Bois who conceived of modern slavery as ‘standing at the inception—neither inside or outside—of modern imperial colonialism, of a supposed European world economy, of capitalism as a system, of modernity as a global horizon’ (Chandler, 2014: 113 n. 15). …”

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Chandler

Pugh

2023

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…The survey results remained unchanged eight months later (Silver et al, 2021). Many media outlets and policymakers have frequently referenced these findings as evidence that China has a "global image problem" (Buckley, 2020;Chandler and McGregor, 2020;Ching, 2020). What has not been explored, however, is whether these negative feelings are mutual.…”

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Unpacking “the West”: Divergence and Asymmetry in Chinese Public Attitudes Towards Europe and the United States

Liu

Fang

2023

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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Recent public opinion polls conducted in Europe and the United States show increasingly negative views of China. Does the Chinese public hold similar views of “the West”? Conducting a two-wave survey in China, we found great divergence and asymmetries in Chinese public perceptions. First, Chinese views of European countries and the US diverge sharply, despite these countries being typically grouped together as “the West” in mainstream English and Chinese discourses; the Chinese viewed the US much more negatively than Europe. Second, whereas the Chinese reciprocated American antipathy, there was an asymmetry in public perceptions between China and Europe, with the Chinese expressing much greater favourability towards European countries than the other way around, though the degree of favourability still varied by country. Analyses of respondent attributes also yielded insights that both confirm and challenge some of the conventional wisdom regarding age, education, and party membership in Chinese public opinion.

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“…By purity, I mean, following Nahum Chandler's (2014) work on W.E.B. DuBois, a stabilized ground of thought that provides the thinker with ethical, political and analytical certainty.…”

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Placing critical geographic thought. A commentary on David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh's ‘Abyssal geography’.

Grove

2023

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Placing critical geographic thought. A commentary on David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh's ‘Abyssal geography’.

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