THEORIZING THE CONTEMPORARY - THEORY FROM THE SOUTH

A Forum on THEORY FROM THE SOUTH: HOW EURO-AMERICA IS EVOLVING TOWARD AFRICA, by Jean and John Comaroff

Introduction
Juan Obarrio, Johns Hopkins University

Coevalness, Recursivity and the Feet of Lionel Messi
Ato Quayson, University of Toronto

Surpassing the North: Can the Antipodean Avantgarde Trump Postcolonial Belatedness?
Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University

Theory from the Comaroffs, or How to Know the World Up, Down, Backwards and Forwards
James Ferguson, Stanford University

Theory from the Antipodes. Notes on John & Jean Comaroff's TFS
Achille Mbembe, University of Witwatersrand

Theory from the South: A Rejoinder
Jean and John Comaroff, University of Chicago

[Part of "Theorizing the Contemporary"]