04612     2200433   4500001000600000011001400006100004100020101000800061102000700069110001600076200014700092210004400239215003700283300002300320326001500343330191900358461011002277463008102387606016702468606010802635606013702743606008902880606003802969606005603007606005403063606018803117606017703305606008403482606011603566606009703682606011303779606008803892700004703980801003804027801001404065830000804079856003204087856005904119104520 a2402-5895  a20230120a2015    m  y0frey50      ba0 aeng  aFR  amg|z|||||||1 aThe Funambulist N°41bNUMPfLéopold Lamberte Politics of Space and Bodies. e Politiques de l'espace et des corps. e Decentering the U.S.  aParis cThe FunambulistdMay–Jun 2022  cCouv.Ill.Coul. a80 p.d20 × 25  aTextes en anglais   aBimestriel  aThe question that motivates this issue is simple: how come so many of us outside the settler colony called the United States of America, are so deeply influenced by and interpret our own contexts through the political ‘software’ created by U.S.-based academics and activists? The goal here is less to disqualify this U.S. political framework, than to demonstrate that the successful ways through which it analyzes its own context may not be as useful when analyzing other situations. Throughout the issue, we aim to reflect on U.S. exceptionalism, including in its own anti-imperialist critique (Zoé Samudzi), on what Blackness misses when it is mostly centered on African American espitemologies (Cases Rebelles), on transfused U.S.-forged concepts of “brownness” or “BIPOC” (Sinthujan Varatharajah), on illusory attempts to translate struggles into (U.S.) English (Bekriah Mawasi), on the complete blind spot casteism constitutes in this U.S. ‘software’ (Shaista Aziz Patel & Vijeta Kumar), on the need for a pluriversal approach of queerness (Rahul Rao)… Even within the U.S., the political framework that categorizes all people (from Indigenous people to white settlers) coming from the south of its border as “Latinx” needs to be problematized as settler colonial creations (Floridalma Boj Lopez). With this issue, we aim at doing just that: not letting go of the precious epistemologies U.S.-based thinkers have brought us, but simply decentering them to favor the pluriversality of our influences.

You can read the issue’s editorial introduction in open-access here.

The cover was created for us by Michael DeForge and the News from the Fronts section brings us reflections on Taiwan (Szu-Han Ho & Meng-Yao Chuang), Cameroon (Ethel-Ruth Tawe), the Ainu (Kanako Uzawa) and Fusako Shigenobu’s political legacy, a few weeks before her release from prison in Japan (May Shigenobu).  aLéopold LambertcParis dN°1 (Septembre 2015)tThe Funambulistuhttps://thefunambulist.net/x2402-5895  aLéopold LambertcParis tThe Funambulistx2402-5895dMay–Jun 2022vN°41  aTaiwan, beyond the people's republic of China and the republic of China xTaïwan, au-delà de la République populaire de Chine et de la République de Chine  aFusako Shigenobu, an open-ended revolution xFusako Shigenobu, une révolution sans fin prédéfinie  aA letter to my grandfather : Cameroon in crisis 20 years on xUne lettre à mon grand-père : le Cameroun en crise, 20 ans après  aWhat is left of us ? The living story of the Ainu in Japan xPeuple Aïnou au Japon  aOs Olhos Falam xLes yeux parlent  aInterlude : Anthologie de la poésie du tout-monde  aBlack America and us xL'Amérique noire et nous  aJourney from " The center of the world " : On U.S. exceptionalism and disgustxVoyage depuis « Le centre du monde » : à propos de l’exceptionnalisme américain et du dégoût  aThe weight words carry : On " brown", "biopic" and other transfused labelsxLe poids des mots : autour de « brown », « biopic » et d’autres qualificatifs transposés  aInterlude : A musical pluriversalityxInterlude : une pluriversalité musicale  aNaming, a coming home : Latinidad and indigeneityxNommer, c’est rentrer chez soi : latinité et autochtonie  aOn dalit dreaming and rebellious joy xÀ propos des rêves dalits et de la joie insoumise  aThinking through queerness in a pluriversal Global SouthxPenser la queerness dans un Sud global pluriversel  aOn naming and translating in PalestinexLa nomination et la traduction en Palestine  4Rédacteur en chef  aLambertbLéopold  0aFRbFR-751131015c20230120gAFNOR 0aTNb32Bis  aABA4 uhttps://thefunambulist.net/4 uhttps://thefunambulist.net/magazine/decentering-the-us