Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics

by Benjamin P. Davis

What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded?
Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher douard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: 'You must choose your...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399522434
• ISBN13: 9781399522434
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"