Updated 2023 Fall
Liberation Philosophy advances a thematic stance that inequality and injustice are still urgent and pervasive concerns, especially as they manifest vestiges of colonialization.
COLONIALIZATION AND THE FREUDIAN TURN
Freud
Fanon
“Frantz Fanon and Black Skin, White Masks.” University Quick Course, YouTube, 19 Jan. 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXmsW1yr4pI
“Concerning Violence.” Constance Farrington, Translator. Wretched of the Earth. Open Anthropology.
Marcuse: Liberation from the Affluent Society
Text
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/67dialecticlib/67LibFromAfflSociety.htm
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQLpqno6J_g
STRUCTURE, RACISM, INCARCERATION, GOVERNMENTALITY
Angela Davis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
Masked Racism (1998)
https://www.colorlines.com/articles/masked-racism-reflections-prison-industrial-complex
Recognizing Racism (2013)
TruthOut
Freedom is a Constant Struggle (2013)
http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/11/25/transcription-angela-davis-freedom-constant-struggle-closures-continuities/
Database resource:
Heiner, Brady Thomas. “Foucault And The Black Panthers.” City 11.3 (2007): 313-356. Academic Search Complete. Web. 18 Aug. 2013.
Foucault
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
For primary source text, please see videos of Foucault speaking below or search your library for ebooks by author: Foucault, Michel.
Lost Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzoOhhh4aJg
YouTubeSearch
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=foucault&search=Search
LIBERATION AS LATIN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
Liberation Theology (Latin America)
Gustavo Gutierrez, O.P (2003 interview with Daniel Hartnett)
http://americamagazine.org/issue/420/article/remembering-poor-interview-gustavo-gutirrez
Leonardo Boff
https://leonardoboff.wordpress.com/2019/04/09/spreading-hate-and-proclaiming-god-above-all-is-blasphemous/
https://leonardoboff.wordpress.com/2019/03/03/the-current-socio-political-crisis-demands-prophets/
Pope Francis
Encyclical Letter: On Care for Our Common Home (Rome: 2015)
Second World Meeting of Popular Movements (Bolivia: 2015)
Liberation Psychology and Pedagogy
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/liberation-psychology-history-future
Paulo Freire
https://freire.org/concepts-used-by-paulo-freire
For Primary Sources check library for ebooks by author: Freire, Paulo
Ignacio Martín-Baró
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Mart%C3%ADn-Bar%C3%B3
For Primary Sources check library for “full text” resources by author: Martín-Baró
Dussel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Dussel
Fall 2023 students: please note the date of death.
Articles
https://enriquedussel.com/?page_id=57312
On “Epistemic Decolonization”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/12734
Zapatismo: Subcomandante Marcos
http://www.struggle.ws/mexico/marcos_index.html
Mona Eltahawy
Why Do They Hate Us
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/04/23/why-do-they-hate-us/
Database suggestion:
ang, Mayfair Mei-hui. “Postcoloniality And Religiosity In Modern China: The Disenchantments Of Sovereignty.” Theory, Culture And Society 28.2 (2011): 3-45. Philosopher’s Index. Web. 8 Jan. 2014.
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