Frantz Fanon (2 ed)
Gender, Torture and the Biopolitics of Colonialism

By (author) Azzedine Haddour

ISBN13: 9780745341545

Imprint: Pluto Press

Publisher: Pluto Press

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Published: 20/01/2025

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Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a visionary thinker whose legacy continues to shape conversations on identity, power and resistance. Here, leading Fanon scholar Azzedine Haddour explores themes of gender, revolutionary struggle and the decolonisation of the mind in the first comprehensive study of Fanon’s lesser known work, Studies in a Dying Colonialism (1959). Drawing on archival material, the author explores the historical developments that determined the colonial consensus and the social transformation prompted by the Algerian liberation struggle. Haddour engages with the biopolitics of French colonialism to support Fanon’s claim that the medical establishment acted in complicity with colonialism. He recounts various assimilationist laws that resulted in the gendering of colonial space and shows how the wars alter the perception of the colonised population through modern western technologies like the radio. In an era where global struggles for independence and self-determination persist, this book is an essential journey into the mind of a groundbreaking philosopher and icon of revolution.
Introduction 1. A Medicine of Propaganda and the Biopolitics of Colonialism 2. The Battle of the Wave and the Gendering of Radio Transmission 3. Torture Unveiled 4. The Liberal Left, Decolonization and the Colonial Consensus Conclusion
  • Colonialism & imperialism
  • National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
  • Professional & Vocational
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