{"product_id":"9780520379350-anticolonial-eruptions","title":"Anticolonial Eruptions","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRacial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis incisive study reveals the fundamental, paradoxical weakness of colonialism and the enduring power of anticolonial resistance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Resistance is everywhere, but everywhere a surprise, especially when the agents of struggle are the colonized, the enslaved, the wretched of the earth. Anticolonial revolts and slave rebellions have often been described by those in power as “eruptions”—volcanic shocks to a system that does not, cannot, see them coming. In \u003ci\u003eAnticolonial Eruptions\u003c\/i\u003e, Geo Maher diagnoses a paradoxical weakness built right into the foundations of white supremacist power, a colonial blind spot that grows as domination seems more complete.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnticolonial Eruptions\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the colonizer’s weakness is rooted in dehumanization. When the oppressed and excluded rise up in explosive rebellion, with the very human demands for life and liberation, the powerful are ill-prepared. This colonial blind spot is, ironically, self-imposed: the more oppressive and expansive the colonial power, the lesser-than-human the colonized are believed to be, the greater the opportunity for resistance. Maher calls this paradox the cunning of decolonization, an unwitting reversal of the balance of power between the oppressor and the oppressed. Where colonial power asserts itself as unshakable, total, and perpetual, a blind spot provides strategic cover for revolutionary possibility; where race or gender make the colonized invisible, they organize, unseen. \u003ci\u003eAnticolonial Eruptions\u003c\/i\u003e shows that this fundamental weakness of colonialism is not a bug, but a permanent feature of the system, providing grounds for optimism in a contemporary moment roiled by global struggles for liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53567282348406,"sku":"9780520379350","price":69.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27943299.jpg?v=1730225222","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780520379350-anticolonial-eruptions","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}