Authors such as Michel Foucault and Franz Fanon have been influential figures both in studies of questions relating to strategies of power and representation in post-colonial contexts, and in the theoretical debates and analyses surrounding post-colonialism. In particular, the notions of bio-power and governmentality, originally found in Foucault's thought, and Fanon's reflections on the construction of forms of racial and colonial subjectification, have enabled a wide debate on the permanence and circulation of transnational racial rhetorics. Through a reading of David Scott's Refashioning Futures - Criticism after postcoloniality (1999), and Paul Gilroy's Against Race - Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (2000), this essay seeks to identify the pertinence of combining both authors in studies that, in different ways, rely on the complex relationship between body and modernity and its implications in the present-day political and intellectual fields.
Post-Colonialism; Culture; Racism; Power