Anti-colonial thought has consistently challenged liberal categories of progress, rights, and humanity by exposing their entanglement with empire. Engaging the writings of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Priyamvada Gopal, this chapter argues that colonialism was not a failure of liberal ideals but a constitutive condition of their global authority. Rather than seeking inclusion within liberal frameworks, anti-colonial thinkers revealed inclusion itself as a technology of governance that translated domination into reform. Situating anti-colonial critique within the book’s broader argument about structural and epistemic injustice, the chapter shows how liberal universality depends on the regulation of political voice and historical time. Anti-colonial traditions respond to this condition not through appeals to recognition or procedural repair, but through practices of refusal, rupture, and re-worlding. By foregrounding insurgent imaginaries of freedom that reject liberal moral grammar, the chapter demonstrates the enduring relevance of anti-colonial thought for rethinking justice beyond inclusion and reform.

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Anti-Colonial Thought and the Refusal of Liberal Inclusion

  • Asis Mistry

摘要

Anti-colonial thought has consistently challenged liberal categories of progress, rights, and humanity by exposing their entanglement with empire. Engaging the writings of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Priyamvada Gopal, this chapter argues that colonialism was not a failure of liberal ideals but a constitutive condition of their global authority. Rather than seeking inclusion within liberal frameworks, anti-colonial thinkers revealed inclusion itself as a technology of governance that translated domination into reform. Situating anti-colonial critique within the book’s broader argument about structural and epistemic injustice, the chapter shows how liberal universality depends on the regulation of political voice and historical time. Anti-colonial traditions respond to this condition not through appeals to recognition or procedural repair, but through practices of refusal, rupture, and re-worlding. By foregrounding insurgent imaginaries of freedom that reject liberal moral grammar, the chapter demonstrates the enduring relevance of anti-colonial thought for rethinking justice beyond inclusion and reform.