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| Details | Join us on Zoom using this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9016329269885/WN_3NUfh9Z8QteL68Q8Zpds7g This event will also stream live on our Facebook page. For more information contact Rory Martorana at rmartorana@nhfpl.org or by calling her direct line at 203 – 946-2283. Jane Anna Gordon is Professor of Political Science with affiliations in American Studies, El Instituto, Global Affairs, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is a specialist in political theory, with a focus on modern and contemporary political theory, Africana political thought, theories of enslavement, political theories of education, and methodologies in the social sciences. Gordon is, most recently, author of Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement (Routledge 2020) and Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Frantz Fanon (Fordham University Press 2014) and is co-editor (with Drucilla Cornell) of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg. Drucilla Cornell is a professor of law, women’s studies and political science at Rutgers University. She has authored several books and numerous articles on critical theory, feminism and postmodern theories of ethics. She is also a produced playwright — productions of her plays The Dream Cure and Background Interference have been performed in New York and Los Angeles. ABOUT THE BOOK: Rosa Luxemburg is widely regarded as one the most important historical European woman Marxist theorists. Significantly, for the purpose of creolizing the canon, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles, such as those in Poland and Russia, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined, to considerations of state sovereignty, democracy, feminism, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that, by creolizing Luxemburg, we can open up new paths of understanding the complexities of revolution. |
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