{"product_id":"the-center-cannot-hold-9781478020462","title":"The Center Cannot Hold","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Center Cannot Hold\u003c\/i\u003e Jenna N. Hanchey examines the decolonial potential emerging from processes of ruination and collapse. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Tanzania at an internationally funded NGO as it underwent dissolution, Hanchey traces the conflicts between local leadership and Western paternalism as well as the unstable subjectivity of Western volunteers—including the author—who are unable to withstand the contradictions of playing the dual roles of decolonializing ally and white savior. She argues that Western institutional and mental structures must be allowed to fall apart to make possible the emergence of decolonial justice. Hanchey shows how, through ruination, privileged subjects come to critical awareness through repeated encounters with their own complicity, providing an opportunity to delink from and oppose epistemologies of coloniality. After things fall apart, Hanchey posits, the creation of decolonial futures depends on the labor req\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A true work of unlearning for relearning! Erudite, lucid, profound, this book successfully shakes the foundations of Western messianism.” -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, University of Bayreuth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Center Cannot Hold 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I\u003cbr\u003e 1. Doctors with(out) Burdens  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. All of Us Phantasmic Saviors  58\u003cbr\u003e 3. Haunted Reflexivity  88\u003cbr\u003e Part II\u003cbr\u003e 4. Water in the Cracks  117\u003cbr\u003e 5. Fluid (Re)mapping  141\u003cbr\u003e 6. Things Fall Apart  163\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Rivulets in the Ruins  185\u003cbr\u003e Notes  195\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  217\u003cbr\u003e Index  231","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409014006103,"sku":"9781478020462","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020462.jpg?v=1730505094","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-center-cannot-hold-9781478020462","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}