04736 2200457 4500 10452 2402-5895 10452 NUMP 20230120a2015 m y0frey50 ba eng FR mg|z||||||| The Funambulist N°41 NUMP Léopold Lambert Politics of Space and Bodies. Politiques de l'espace et des corps. Decentering the U.S. Paris The Funambulist May–Jun 2022 Couv.Ill.Coul. 80 p. 20 × 25 Textes en anglais Bimestriel The 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). Léopold Lambert Paris N°1 (Septembre 2015) The Funambulist https://thefunambulist.net/ 2402-5895 Léopold Lambert Paris The Funambulist 2402-5895 May–Jun 2022 N°41 Taiwan, beyond the people's republic of China and the republic of China Taïwan, au-delà de la République populaire de Chine et de la République de Chine 28759 Fusako Shigenobu, an open-ended revolution Fusako Shigenobu, une révolution sans fin prédéfinie 28760 A letter to my grandfather : Cameroon in crisis 20 years on Une lettre à mon grand-père : le Cameroun en crise, 20 ans après 28761 What is left of us ? The living story of the Ainu in Japan Peuple Aïnou au Japon 28762 Os Olhos Falam Les yeux parlent 28763 Interlude : Anthologie de la poésie du tout-monde 28764 Black America and us L'Amérique noire et nous 28765 Journey from " The center of the world " : On U.S. exceptionalism and disgust Voyage depuis « Le centre du monde » : à propos de l’exceptionnalisme américain et du dégoût 28766 The weight words carry : On " brown", "biopic" and other transfused labels Le poids des mots : autour de « brown », « biopic » et d’autres qualificatifs transposés 28767 Interlude : A musical pluriversality Interlude : une pluriversalité musicale 28768 Naming, a coming home : Latinidad and indigeneity Nommer, c’est rentrer chez soi : latinité et autochtonie 28769 On dalit dreaming and rebellious joy À propos des rêves dalits et de la joie insoumise 28770 Thinking through queerness in a pluriversal Global South Penser la queerness dans un Sud global pluriversel 28771 On naming and translating in Palestine La nomination et la traduction en Palestine 28772 Rédacteur en chef Lambert Léopold 19827 FR FR-751131015 20230120 AFNOR TN 32Bis ABA https://thefunambulist.net/ https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/decentering-the-us 0 0 0 2026-11-05 8006 32BIS 32BIS Salle de lecture 007768 2026-11-05 7622 PER FUN 41 0 NUMP PER_FUN_41_000000000000000 Don The Funambulist 0 2026-11-05