The Outsider Within. Anticolonial Critiques of Humanity and the Cosmopolitan Vision.

IF 2.7 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI:10.1111/1468-4446.13188

Daniel Davison-Vecchione, Filipe Carreira da Silva

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Abstract

This article re-examines the anticolonial critique of the concept of 'humanity'. It uses the example of Leopold Senghor to show the extent to which this critique is shaped by their sociological marginality. Drawing on Georg Simmel's discussion of the 'stranger' and Patricia Hill Collins's discussion of the 'outsider within', the study rethinks the production of knowledge in racially structured societies. As 'outsiders within' colonial empires, anticolonial thinkers from the 1930s to the 1960s challenge the idea of a universal humanity used to justify colonialism and expose its racial stratification. Their critique helps to end colonial domination and develop a more robust conception of common humanity, aligned with a genuine cosmopolitanism that resists exploitative manipulation and promotes anti-racist agendas. By exploring the critical potential of the figure of the stranger or outsider within, this study invites sociologists to integrate diverse perspectives into sociological discourse and to promote a cosmopolitan epistemology that combines particular and universal insights.

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内心的局外人。反殖民主义的人性批判与世界主义视野。

本文重新审视了对“人性”概念的反殖民主义批判。它用利奥波德·桑戈尔的例子来说明这种批判在多大程度上是由他们的社会学边缘化所塑造的。借鉴乔治·西梅尔关于“陌生人”的讨论和帕特里夏·希尔·柯林斯关于“局外人”的讨论，该研究重新思考了种族结构社会中的知识生产。作为殖民帝国内的“局外人”，20世纪30年代至60年代的反殖民主义思想家挑战了用来为殖民主义辩护的普遍人性观念，并揭露了其种族分层。他们的批判有助于结束殖民统治，并发展出一种更强大的共同人性概念，与真正的世界主义相一致，抵制剥削操纵，促进反种族主义议程。通过探索内在的陌生人或局外人形象的批判潜力，本研究邀请社会学家将不同的观点整合到社会学话语中，并促进一种结合了特殊和普遍见解的世界主义认识论。

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British Journal of Sociology SOCIOLOGY-

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