Creolizing Practices of Freedom: Recognition and Dissonance

By Michael Monahan and Michael J. Monahan University of Memphis

Creolizing Practices of Freedom argues that many of our long-standing debates over the concept of freedom have been bound up in the politics of purity--explicitly or implicitly insisting on clear and distinct boundaries between self and other or between choice and coercion. In this model, freedom becomes a matter of purifying the self at the individual level and the body politic at the larger social level. The appropriate response to this is a creolizing theory of freedom, an approach that sees indeterminacy and ambiguity not as tragic flaws, but as crucial productive elements of the practice of freedom.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538174618
• ISBN13: 9781538174616
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"