The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities

Sebastian Thies holds the chair for Ibero-American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen. He was convenor of the Research Training Network "Entangled Temporalities in the Global South" and was one of the coordinators of the BMBF/DAAD thematic network "Futures under construction in the Global South" (2018-20). His research interests include Global South Studies and Latin American literature, film and media studies. He recently co-edited The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas.

This handbook is to provide a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a category of social and cultural analysis.

I. General Introduction: Contested and Contesting Subjectivities in the Global South 1. Rethinking Subjectivity with the South: A Conceptual Prelude 2. Regimes of Subjectivity and Temporality 3. Precarisation, Articulation, and Recognition as Dynamics of Subjectivation 4. Towards a More Equitable Ecology of Knowledges II. Articulating Subjectivity from the Global South 5. Thinking the World from Africa 6. No Longer Northbound, Now Heading South 7. The Global South and Internationalism 8. Defining Legal Subjectivities for a Postcolonial International Order: The International Legal Controversy over Wars of National Liberation III. Reconfiguring Interpellation 9. The Subject of Teaching/Learning in the Global South 10. Musical Mega-events, Political Communication, and Cross-border Subjectivities in the Colombian-venezuelan Conflict. The Cases of Paz Sin Fronteras (2008) and Venezuela Aid Live (2019) 11. Tears and Concrete: Urban Subjectivities of Mexican Modernity through the Lens of Films IV. Precarised Subjectivities 12. Figurations of the Precarious. Rethinking Studies on the Precarious in the Global South from a Subject-centred Perspective 13. People-on-the-move: An Emerging Historical Figure? 14. When Image is a Body: Modes of Surviving the Colonial Machine 15. Precarious Lives and the Figure of the Wound in Chilean Literature: Hijo de ladrón (1951) by Manuel Rojas and Lumpérica (1983) by Diamela Eltit 16. Hyper-consumerism, Violence and Endriago. Female Subjectivities in the Border Narcoculture of Orfa Alarcóns Perra Brava V. Entangled Regimes of Temporality 17. The Time of the Commons and the Subject of the South 18. Disruptive Temporality and Post-apocalyptic Subjectivity: Narrating Violence in Tierno Monénembo's Les écailles du ciel 19. Questioning the "New" Zimbabwe: Biomythography and Political Subjectivity in Panashe Chigumadzi's These Bones Will Rise Again (2018) VI. Contesting the Western Subject of Knowledge 20. Zö-assemblage: Immanent Life in the Age of the Anthropocene 21. Conversing with María Luisa Chacarito: A Ralámuli Woman's Perceptions on Life in an Interconnected World 22. Subjectivities, Agency and Ritual Performance in the Garhwal Himalayas 23. Just Thinking