A review by kumarhk
The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe

5.0

Phenomenal. Lisa Lowe reads across an incredible range of texts to build an approach to thinking through the relationship between European liberalism and the colonialism, slavery, indentured servitude, and dispossessions that define(d) the relationship between Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Lowe resists the urge to be totalizing in her analysis or to craft a grand narrative of history; rather, she precisely resists and refutes these to craft means of thinking through the intimacies of these four continents as a "history of the present". This book is not so much interdisciplinary as blowing disciplinary boundaries out of the water with seeming ease. It is certainly difficult and precise in its use of academic language, but careful attention to the way Lowe sets up its schema yields unfailingly powerful and creative analysis.