{"title":"Benjamin Zachariah","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Zachariah's works delve into complex explorations of identity, society, and power through a philosophical lens. His writing challenges conventional thought, often blending postcolonial perspectives with psychological insight to examine the roots and repercussions of cultural narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thought-provoking texts that interrogate the intersections of history, race, and belonging. Zachariah's approach encourages reflection on the shaping of modern subjectivities and the ongoing dialogues between individual experience and collective ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-postcolonial-volk-by-benjamin-zachariah-9781509562633","title":"The Postcolonial Volk","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePostcolonial theory and its bedfellow, decolonial theory, are the most flourishing products of academia in recent times. Transcending their origins in universities and literary criticism, and clustering around what is coming to be known as 'theory from the Global South', their guiding assumptions have leaked into the public domain and become shibboleths with which to acknowledge historically victimised communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith this success has come a disturbing trend: political activity operates based on clumsy victimhood analogies, and much of its rhetoric is deliberately anti-rational, reproducing and perpetuating the manufactured categories of racist and sectarian imaginations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Zachariah examines this phenomenon and its worrying affinities with \u003ci\u003evölkisch\u003c\/i\u003e thinking. A product of nineteenth-century romantic nationalism, \u003ci\u003evölkisch\u003c\/i\u003e is an adjective that indicates a community of blood, soil and race. These aspects are less explicit in its newer guises, which instead invoke communities of collective memory. Nonetheless, Zachariah argues, the older form of collective belonging remains embedded in the apparently new attitudes, as a compulsory community of inherited victimhood and organic belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStriking and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Volk\u003c\/i\u003e is a major intervention that will be of interest to anyone concerned by the more insidious side of postcolonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650595471596,"sku":"9781509562633","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509562633-the-postcolonial-volk.jpg?v=1779328875"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/benjamin-zachariah.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}