The Postcolonial and the Global

✍ Scribed by Revathi Krishnaswamy; John Charles Hawley

• Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This interdisciplinary work brings the humanities and social sciences into dialogue by examining issues such as globalized capital, discourses of antiterrorism, and identity politics. Essayists from the fields of postcolonial studies and globalization theory address the ethical and pragmatic ramifications of opposing interpretations of these issues and, for the first time, seek common ground.

 

Contributors: Pal Ahluwalia, U of California, San Diego; Arjun Appadurai, New School U; Geoffrey Bowker, Santa Clara U; Timothy Brennan, U of Minnesota; Ruth Buchanan, U of British Columbia; Verity Burgmann, U of Melbourne; Pheng Cheah, U of California, Berkeley; Inderpal Grewal, U of California, Irvine; Ramon Grosfoguel, U of California, Berkeley; Barbara Harlow, U of Texas, Austin; Anouar Majid, U of New England; John McMurtry, U of Guelph; Walter D. Mignolo, Duke U; Sundhya Pahuja, U of Melbourne; R. Radhakrishnan, U of California, Irvine; Ileana Rodriguez, Ohio State U; E. San Juan, Philippine Forum, New York; Saskia Sassen, U of Chicago; Ella Shohat, New York U; Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics; Robert Stam, New York U; Madina Tlostanova, Russian Peoples’ Friendship U; Harish Trivedi, U of Delhi.

 

Revathi Krishnaswamy is associate professor of English at San Jose State University.

 

John C. Hawley is professor and chair of English at Santa Clara University.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: At the Crossroads of Postcolonial and Globalization Studies
Connections, Conflicts, Complicities
Agencies for Resistance, Prospects for Evolution
PART I. Disciplinarity and Its Discontents
1. Postcolonial Studies and Globalization Theory
2. Universal Areas: Asian Studies in a World in Motion
3. Revisionism and the Subject of History
4. The Many Scales of the Global: Implications for Theory and for Politics
5. World-System Analysis and Postcolonial Studies: A Call for a Dialogue from the “Coloniality of Power” Approach
PART II. Planetarity and the Postcolonial
6. The Logic of Coloniality and the Limits of Postcoloniality
7. Culture Debates in Translation
8. The Postcolonial Bubble
9. Globalized Terror and the Postcolonial Sublime: Questions for Subaltern Militants
10. Empire and the “New” Politics of Resistance
11. Amitav Ghosh: Cosmopolitanisms, Literature, Transnationalisms
12. Sanctions against South Africa: Historical Example or Historic Exception?
13. From Bollywood to Hollywood: The Globalization of Hindi Cinema
PART III. Imperiality and the Global
14. Discourses of Globalization: A Transnational Capitalist Class Analysis
15. The Postmodern Voice of Empire: The Metalogic of Unaccountability
16. Striking Back against Empire: Working-Class Responses to Globalization
17. Localizing Global Technoscience
18. Law, Nation, and (Imagined) International Communities
19. Globalization as Neo-, Postcolonialism: Politics of Resentment and Governance of the World’s Res Publica
POSTSCRIPT: An Interview with Arjun Appadurai
Publication History
Contributors
Index
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✦ Subjects

Postcolonialism; Globalization; International Politics; Third World; Postcolonial Societies