Frantz Fanon Prize 2011 recipients:
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Molefi
Kete Asante,
Professor of African American Studies at Temple University, “for the
originality and influence of his scholarship, his leadership in the struggle
for work respecting the dignity of dispossessed peoples and the recognition of
themselves as historical agents.”
In
his response to being notified about the award, Professor Asante wrote: “My own
work has been Pan African, global, leaning always toward agency analysis and
the role of the scholars to humanize the world…. I went off to Africa and
gained my footing and started down the road of seeking in every case the agency
of African people. It was when I went to Kingston in the seventies with
Julius Garvey that I came to see the extent of our common struggle against the
narratives of domination in the African world. I deeply thank the
Caribbean Philosophical Association for maintaining a consistent focus on
international reflections and for advancing our common knowledge. I sincerely
appreciate this award and will always count it among the most significant
honors I have received.”
For
more on Dr. Asante, please consult this link: http://www.asante.net/biography/
Michel
Rolph-Trouillot,
Professor of Anthropology and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago,
“for the originality of his interrogations in the human sciences, especially
anthropology and history, and his articulation of the importance and challenges
of Haiti in contemporary discussions of freedom and reclamations of the past.”
Jean
Comaroff, Rolph-Trouillot’s colleague at the University of Chicago adds: “There
could be few more appropriate recipients of the Fanon prize than
Michel-Rolph Trouillot. His life and work embody the brilliant, restless
spirit of Fanon, carrying forward the long, searing conversation between
Caribbean critique and the legacy of Western humanism.”
For
more on Dr. Rolph-Trouillot, please consult this link: http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/faculty/faculty_trouillot.shtml
BOOK
Susan
Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
http://www.amazon.com/Hegel-Haiti-Universal-History-Illuminations/dp/082295978X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1303316357&sr=8-1
According
to the committee, “This book challenges hegemonic history, discourses of
freedom, and presumed universality through raising the contradictions posed by
the underside of history, modern subjectivity, and methodological aspirations in
the social sciences.”
Marilyn
Nissim-Sabat, Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New
Humanity. Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books, 2009.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Marilyn+Nissim-Sabat&x=0&y=0
“Nissim-Sabat’s
new vision of authentic existence is,” announced the prize committee,
“responding to the challenge set by Frantz Fanon: to ‘work out new concepts,
and try to set afoot a new man’ (Wretched of the Earth). Like Fanon, she
works out her philosophical concepts and her vision of human possibilities
through her experiences as a practicing psychotherapist. Her book
also makes a contribution to African-American/Africana emancipatory
literature.”
The
awards will be conferred at the Caribbean Philosophical Association Annual
International Meeting, which will be held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
New Jersey, September 29th to October 1st,
2011. For information on the conference, click here.
Information
on the awards and previous winners is also available at:
http://www.temple.edu/isrst/Events/CPA_FanonPrize.asp
and http://www.temple.edu/isrst/Events/guillenprize.asp
Frantz Fanon Prize previous recipients:
2010
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Bernard Boxill
Letter of appreciation by Bernard Boxill
BOOK
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, WHAT IF LATIN AMERICA RULED THE WORLD?: HOW THE SECOND WORLD WILL TAKE THE FIRST INTO THE 22ND CENTURY (London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Export Edition edition, 2007. The paperback will be released in September).
Ángel Quintero, CUERPO Y CULTURA: LAS MUSICAS "MULATAS" Y LA SUBVERSION DEL BAILE (Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2009).
2009
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Erique Dussel
Nigel Gibson
BOOK
Linda Martín Alcoff, VISIBLE IDENTITIES: RACE, GENDER, AND THE SELF (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Nigel Gibson, FANON: THE POSTCOLONIAL IMAGINATION (Polity Press, 2003)
2008
Drucilla Cornell, MORAL IMAGES OF FREEDOM: A FUTURE FOR CRITICAL THEORY (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
Patricia Donatien-Yssa, L’EXORCISME DE LA BLES: VAINCRE LA SOUFFRANCE DANS AUTOBIOGRAPHIE DE MA MERE DE JAMAICA KINCAID (Paris: Manuscrit, 2007)
2007
Elias Bongmba, DIALECTICS OF TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA (New York: Palgrave, 2006)
Brinda Mehta, DIASPORIC (DIS)LOCATIONS (Kingston, JA: University of the West Indies Press )
Catherine Reindhardt, CLAIMS TO MEMORY: BEYOND SLAVRY AND EMANCIPATION IN THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN (New York: Berghahn Books, 2006).
2006
Walter Mignolo, THE IDEA OF LATIN AMERICA (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2006)
2005
Alejandro J. De Oto, POLÍTICA DEL SUJETO POSCOLONIAL (Mexico City, Mexico: El Centro de Estudios de Asia y Africa, El Colegio de México, 2003).
Sibylle Fischer, MODERNITY DISAVOWED: HAITI AND THE CULTURES OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004).
2004
Paget Henry, CALIBAN’S REASON (New York: Routledge, 2000).
THE FRANTZ FANON PRIZE COMMITTEE
Marina Banchetti-Robino, Florida Atlantic University
Elias K. Bonbmba, Rice University
Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University
Patricia Donatien-Yssa, Université Antilles-Guyane
Sibylle Fischer, New York University
Clevis Hedley, Florida Atlantic University
Paget Henry, Brown University
Walter Mignolo, Duke University
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California at Berkeley
Brinda Mehta, Mills College
Alejandro de Oto, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia-Argentina
Catherine Reinhardt-Zacair, Chapman University
Neil Roberts, Williams College
Jean-Paul Rocci, University of Paris VII
