Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital write by Vivek Chibber. This book was released on 2013-03-12. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory. Focusing on the hugely popular Subaltern Studies project, Chibber shows that its foundational arguments are based on a series of analytical and historical misapprehensions. He demonstrates that it is possible to affirm a universalizing theory without succumbing to Eurocentrism or reductionism. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital promises to be a historical milestone in contemporary social theory.
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory write by Julian Go. This book was released on 2016. Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus. However, in Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory, Julian Go attempts to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory fields by crafting a postcolonial social science. Contrary to claims that social science is incompatible with postcolonial thought, this book argues that the two are mutually beneficial, drawing upon the works of thinkers such as Franz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak. Go concludes with a call for a "third wave" of postcolonial thought emerging from social science and surmounting the narrow confines of disciplinary boundaries.
Confronting Capitalism
Confronting Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confronting Capitalism write by Vivek Chibber. This book was released on 2022-08-30. Confronting Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A strategic guide to building a more democratic and egalitarian future Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it so difficult for working people to organize around common interests? How do we begin to build a more equal and democratic society? Vivek Chibber provides a clear and accessible map of how capitalism works, how it limits the power of working and oppressed people, and how to overcome those limits. The capitalist economy generates incredible wealth but also injustice. Those who own the factories, hotels, and farms always have an advantage over the people who rely on that ownership class for their livelihoods. This inequality in power and income is reflected in the operation of the state, where capitalists are able to exert their will even under relatively democratic conditions. The most important reason is that states depend on the employment and profits from capitalist enterprise for both finances and legitimacy. Every meaningful victory for working people has been won through collective struggle but collective action is very difficult to coordinate. In the final section of the book, Chibber walks the reader through some of the historical attempts to build socialism and presents a vision of how we might, perhaps against the odds, build a socialist future.
Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital write by Vivek Chibber. This book was released on 2013-03-12. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory. Focusing on the hugely popular Subaltern Studies project, Chibber shows that its foundational arguments are based on a series of analytical and historical misapprehensions. He demonstrates that it is possible to affirm a universalizing theory without succumbing to Eurocentrism or reductionism. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital promises to be a historical milestone in contemporary social theory.
The Postcolonial Orient
The Postcolonial Orient - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postcolonial Orient write by Vasant Kaiwar. This book was released on 2014-05-08. The Postcolonial Orient available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Postcolonial Orient, Vasant Kaiwar presents a far-reaching analysis of the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies preceding and following the 1989 moment of world history. The valences of the ‘post’ in postcolonialism are unfolded via some key historical-political postcolonial texts showing, inter alia, that they are replete with elements of Romantic Orientalism and the Oriental Renaissance. Kaiwar mobilises a critical body of classical and contemporary Marxism to demonstrate that far richer understandings of ‘Europe’ not to mention ‘colonialism’, ‘modernity’ and ‘difference’ are possible than with a postcolonialism captive to phenomenological-existentialism and post-structuralism, concluding that a narrative so enriched is indispensable for a transformative non-Eurocentric internationalism.
