Abstract
Author(s): Lebron Ortiz, Pedro | Abstract: A critical study of marronage is urgent since certain anthropological and historical analyses have painted an image of slavery—and therefore of marronage as well—as something of the past. This text will demonstrate that marronage, rather than being simply flight from the plantation in a literal sense, also refers to flight from oppressive institutions through permanent institutional reconfiguration as well as to an existential state of Being. In this text I sketch out ways in which marronage is made manifest within and outside Euromodernity, which I call maroon logics. Maroon logics consists of two interdependent modes of embodying freedom and struggling for liberation. On the one hand there is sociogenic marronage, elaborated by political theorist Neil Roberts in his book Freedom as Marronage (2015), which refers to permanent institutional change as a manifestation of marronage. On the other hand, there is what I call analectical marronage, which denotes resistance to the coloniality of being.
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Resumen Un estudio crítico del cimarronaje es urgente ya que ciertos análisis históricos y antropológicos han pintado una imagen de la esclavitud–y por lo tanto el cimarronaje–como un fenómeno relegado al pasado
The focus on the juridical act of the abolition of slavery in historical narratives was required in order for liberal thought to cleanse its conscience since slavery resulted in an apparent contradiction of principles (Carrera Damas 35)
If the study of these elements leads to the conclusion that slavery is constitutive of Euromodernity and we constitute slavery and flight from slavery as two inextricable processes (Quintero Rivera 38), it could be said that remnants of marronage must constitute our present
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Resumen Un estudio crítico del cimarronaje es urgente ya que ciertos análisis históricos y antropológicos han pintado una imagen de la esclavitud–y por lo tanto el cimarronaje–como un fenómeno relegado al pasado. The manifestation of sociogenic and analectical marronage in different political and social spaces constitute what I regard as maroon logics.
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