Author

Publication

2020 - Duke University Press

Language

English

Word Count

86,000 words, Guess

Page Count

344 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781478008897
  • ISBN-10147800889X
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019054634
  • OCLC Control Number1125354868
  • Better World Books9781478008897
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBD355
  • LCCBD355 .T39 2020

Description

In ¡Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps ¡presente! at work in scenarios ranging from conquest, through colonial enactments and resistance movements, to present moments of capitalist extractivism and forced migration in the Americas. ¡Presente!—present among, with, and to; a walking and talking with others; an ontological and epistemic reflection on presence and subjectivity as participatory and relational, founded on mutual recognition—requires rethinking and unlearning in ways that challenge colonial epistemologies. Showing how knowledge is not something to be harvested but a process of being, knowing, and acting with others, Taylor models a way for scholarship to be present in political struggles.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • ¡Presente!Duke University Press2020

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