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The pressing problems we face in light of the environmental crisis, which poses an imminent threat to the basal conditions of actions and politics, urge us to find a sustainable model of Nature-Politics. Therefore, I shall introduce the concept Circular Politics that describes an approach of politics that is oriented towards the circularity of nature. Not only does this seemingly refute the meaning of politics, that is freedom, and hamper action. Circular Politics, moreover, crosses the boundaries Arendt drew between the World and Nature as well as between the political, social, and private. Instead of replicating Arendt's sharp conceptual boundaries I shall introduce a sustainable ecological concept into her theoretical framework: Planetary Boundaries. Circular Politics is a response to these boundaries that are suitable to demarcate what Arendt hoped to protect with her boundaries, which is a safe space for action. Thus, despite its aim for circularity and appeal to Nature's urgency, Circular Politics pursues to ensure the conditions and meaning of politics. This requires refraining from domination and exploitation of Nature's resources and instead to focus on our coexistence with and in Nature. Connected to this concept is the promise for more participatory, non-hierarchical and collective practices and a call to relate to our surrounding with care and respect. ; The pressing problems we face in light of the environmental crisis, which poses an imminent threat to the basal conditions of actions and politics, urge us to find a sustainable model of Nature-Politics. Therefore, I shall introduce the concept Circular Politics that describes an approach of politics that is oriented towards the circularity of nature. Not only does this seemingly refute the meaning of politics, that is freedom, and hamper action. Circular Politics, moreover, crosses the boundaries Arendt drew between the World and Nature as well as between the political, social, and private. Instead of replicating Arendt's sharp conceptual boundaries ...

Intro -- Cover Page -- Half Title page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface: We Shall Dance Better -- References -- At the Crossroads of Coloniality, Power, and Knowledge: It Is Time to Decolonise Political Concepts -- Decolonial Theory, Political Concepts, and the Ideological West -- Searching for a More Habitable Place: Decolonising Political Concepts -- Concepts beyond Borders -- Moving Sideways, Looking Forward -- Notes -- References -- Part I Decolonial Horizons: Revealing the Coloniality of Knowledge and Power -- 1 Historicising History: A Critique Enabling View of History -- Models of Historiography -- The Empirical Model -- The Constructivist Model -- The Postmodern Historiographic Model and the Charge of Relativism -- Social Conditions and Contingency -- Social Conditions as Conditions of Possibility of Historical Knowledge -- Objectivity in Historical Explanation and General Prescription -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Recalcitrance of White Ignorance -- Introduction -- White Ignorance and the Causal Role of Race -- Conception and Perception -- Memory and Testimony -- A Recalcitrant Ignorance -- Motivational Group Interest -- Affective Aspects of White Ignorance -- Affective Numbness -- White Ignorance as an Embodied Unconscious Habit -- Beyond Beliefs -- Recalcitrant Habits and White Narcissism -- The Emotions of Oppressors as Seen by the Oppressed -- Projective Mechanisms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Idealised Subject of Freedom and the Refugee -- Introduction -- Freedom and National Citizenship -- The Anomaly of the Paradigm -- Humanitarian Approach -- The Arendtian Critique -- Freedom and (Non)-subjectivity -- Refugees' (Non)-subjectivity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Feeling Coloniality: Bodies, Sexuality, and Agency.