Abstract
This Special Issue of Humanities comes at a time when the viability of the humanities are challenged on numerous fronts. [...]
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Race, Politics, and the Humanities in anAge of “Posts”—Rethinking the Human/Race Myra MendibleDepartment of Language and Literature, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Blvd, South, Fort Myers, Academic Editor: Albrecht ClassenReceived: 2 March 2017; Accepted: 7 March 2017; Published: 8 March 2017This Special Issue of Humanities comes at a time when the viability of the humanities are challenged on numerous fronts
The humanities face material threats as the politics of austerity continues throughout Europe and the United States, diminishing public support and making profit margin and “job creation” the primary measures of value or the basis of state university funding decisions
Despite dominant nations’ professed commitment to a universal human rights paradigm, racialized identities are still often the targets of disenfranchisement and dehumanization, while the exploitation and destruction of the natural world continues in the name of “progress”
Summary
Politics, and the Humanities in anAge of “Posts”—Rethinking the Human/Race Myra MendibleReceived: 2 March 2017; Accepted: 7 March 2017; Published: 8 March 2017This Special Issue of Humanities comes at a time when the viability of the humanities are challenged on numerous fronts. The humanities face conceptual, theoretical and ethical challenges, as the emergence of post-racial and post-humanist discourses signal what Foucault called “a change in the fundamental arrangements of knowledge”.
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