# Sociology and Politics [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology) ( 19th century–present ) ## Description Sociology and political theory, including decolonial critique, fugitivity, and white supremacy culture — spanning [[Homi K. Bhabha]]'s postcolonial hybridity, [[Fred Moten]]'s theory of Black fugitivity, [[K. Wayne Yang]]'s critique of metaphorical decolonization, epistemic fragility and conspiracy, and decolonial approaches to education and technology. ## Key Tags #sociology #politics #decolonial ## Essential Works - Bhabha, Homi K. *The Location of Culture*. Routledge, 1994. - Foundational postcolonial text on hybridity, mimicry, and the "third space" - Moten, Fred. *In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition*. University of Minnesota Press, 2003. - Theorizes Black performance and fugitivity within and against the commodity form - Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. "Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor." *Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society*, 2012. - Widely-cited argument against metaphorical uses of "decolonization" - Okun, Tema. *White Supremacy Culture – Still Here*. n.d. - Influential organizing document naming characteristics of white-supremacy culture in institutions ## Details ### Key Theorists - [[Homi K. Bhabha]] - postcolonial hybridity, mimicry, and cultural translation - [[Fred Moten]] - fugitivity and the Black radical tradition, refusal and consent - [[K. Wayne Yang]] - with Eve Tuck, decolonial education theory and critique of metaphorical "decolonization" ### Exemplary Practitioners %% none yet %% ### Related Concepts - [[Critical University Studies]] - overlaps in critique of the university and educational institutions - [[Perpetual War]] - shares concerns with authoritarianism, epistemic fragility, and manufactured political reality - [[Philosophy]] - shares Foucault, Moten, and Bhabha as common theoretical ground ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Associated Movements or Institutions %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Bhabha, Homi K. *The Location of Culture*. Routledge, 1994. Moten, Fred. *In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition*. n.d. Okun, Tema. *White Supremacy Culture – Still Here*. n.d. Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. *Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor*. n.d. Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. *Toward What Justice?: Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education*. 1st ed. Ed. Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. Routledge, 2018. [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351240932](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351240932). ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Alexander, Neta. "From Spectatorship to 'Survivorship' in Five Critical Propositions." *Film Quarterly* 75, no. 1 (2021): 52–57. [https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.75.1.52](https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.75.1.52). "Hooks-the-Oppositional-Gaze-Black-Female-Spectators." n.d. Jones, Robert P., Natalie Jackson, Diana Orcés, Ian Huff, and Thea Holcomb. *Competing Visions of America: An Evolving Identity Or a Culture Under Attack?: Findings from the 2021 American Values Survey*. PRRI, 2021. Lab, Precarity. "Digital Precarity Manifesto." *Social Text* 37, no. 4 (2019): 77–93. [https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7794402](https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7794402). LeVan, A. Carl, Assen Assenov, Kimberly Tower, and Nicolette Carnahan. "Varieties of Mistrust and American Epistemic Fragility." *Political Research Quarterly* 77, no. 2 (2024): 562–76. [https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129241228585](https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129241228585). "Lighting For Whiteness - Dyer." n.d. Lundy, Jessica. "Serving Each Other: Sharing Economies and Affective Labour in Montreal's Kiki Scene." MA thesis, Carleton University, 2020. [https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2020-13975](https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2020-13975). MacDonald. "The Cybogre Manifesto: Time, Utopia, and Globality in Ngũgĩ's Wizard of the Crow." *Research in African Literatures* 47, no. 1 (2016): 57. [https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.1.57](https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.1.57). Meeker, Ezra. *Martial Law in Washington Territory*. n.d. Mohamed, Shakir, Marie-Therese Png, and William Isaac. "Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence." *Philosophy & Technology* 33, no. 4 (2020): 659–84. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00405-8](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00405-8). Nutbrown, Sarah L. *Don't Fake It If You Want to Make It: The Relationship Between Need to Belong...*. n.d. Orbach, Barak Y. *The Johnson-Jeffries Fight and Censorship of Black Supremacy*. n.d. Shulman, George. "Fred Moten's Refusals and Consents: The Politics of Fugitivity." *Political Theory* 49, no. 2 (2021): 272–313. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591720937375](https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591720937375). *The Terra Del Fuegians at the Garden of Acclimation*. n.d. Trifonas, Peter Pericles. *Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics, Instituting Education, and the Discourse of Theory*. n.d. Visoka, Gëzim, and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert. "Imposing Normalcy." In *Normalization in World Politics*. University of Michigan Press, 2022. Wallace, Edgar, H. Rider Haggard, and Henry Morton Stanley. *The Imperial Imaginary*. n.d. Wengård, Emil. *Contemporary Conspiracy as Social Critic*. n.d. Westad, Odd Arne. "Empire and Righteous Nation: Conclusion - What Can We Learn from History about China-Korea Relations?" In *Empire and Righteous Nation*. Harvard University Press, 2021. [https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674249653-006](https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674249653-006). Wickham, Gary. "Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law by Andrew N. Sharpe (Review)." *Journal of Law and Society* 37, no. 4 (2010): 691–96. [https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2010.00529.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2010.00529.x).