Tracking Global Wokeism /

Tracking Global Wokeism /

In this volume, nineteen authors ask: does wokeness exist in the non-Western world? And if yes, is it imported from America or can it also have its own vernacular roots? Wokeness has helped advance the cause of social justice in many domains. However, a cursory search on the internet can yield the i...

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Other Authors: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Value Inquiry Book Series ; 407.

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Philosophy.
Political philosophy.

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Call Number: PZ7.S588

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Woke against Woke?
  •   Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
  •   PART 1
  • Aspects of Woke Politics
  • 2 The Afterlives of Wokeness and the Limits of Epistemic Colonialism
  •   Ignacio López-Calvo
  • 3 Global Woke against Local Progress
  •   Christopher Mott
  • 4 The Anti-woke Movement in America
  •   Carol Burke
  • 5 Can We Laugh about It? Based Heroes and Comedic License in the West
  •   Jibril Latif
  • 6 Wokeism: "A Civil Religion in the Age of Profilicity"?
  •   Hans-Georg Moeller
  • 7 Unsaying Wokeism, or the Role of Self-Critique in Judging Others
  •   William Franke
  • 8 "Wokeism" and Catharism: On Religions That Might Have Existed
  •   Alejandro Carpio
  • 9 Curing and Caring through Art: Memory and Memorials in Times of Changing Interpretation of the Contested Past
  •   Zoltán Somhegyi
  • 10 Wokeism and Democracy: A Terrible Mix
  •   Tommaso Ostillio
  •   PART 2
  • Global Woke
  • 11 Ṣawābiyyah and Wūkiyyah: Tracking Political Correctness and Wokeism in Arabic Language and Muslim-Majority Arab Contexts
  •   Nesma Elsakaan
  • 12 Africa's Contemporary Wokeness as a Summon for Embodying the Common Good
  •   SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai
  • 13 The Woke Monroe Doctrine: Pinkwashing the New Iteration of US Interventionism in Mexico
  •   Andrea Martinez
  • 14 Is Decoloniality Latin American Wokeism? Examining Identity and Politics in the Works of Santiago Castro-Gómez and Walter Mignolo
  •   Manuel Rivera Espinoza
  • 15 Tracing Wokeism: The Case of Batallon Ayacucho in Manizales, Colombia, in Post-conflict Reality
  •   Angela M. González Echeverry
  • 16 Wokeism in Japan: Tensions around Social Minorities and Navigating Human Rights
  •   Satoshi Narihara and Lee Jiyeon
  • 17 Social Death and Loss of Face: A Chinese Wokeism?
  •   Chiang Hio Fai
  • 18 Wokeism in Ibn ʿArabi's Spiritual Law
  •   Ismail Lala
  • 19 The Concept of "Wokeism" in Islamic Legal Philosophy
  •   Emine Enise Yakar
  • Index.