Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony

ISBN-13: 9780230019188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 289 str.

John Chalcraft; Yaseen Noorani

Opis

This volume offers an unusual, interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars working on the major regions of the global South. The authors probe important episodes of resistance in the colony and postcolony for the light they shed on the vexed notion of counterhegemony, enriching our notion of resistance and pointing to new directions for research.

Spis treści

Introduction; J.Chalcraft & Y.Noorani PART I: THE STATE AND POLITICS: NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION Hegemony, Counterhegemony and the Mexican Revolution; A.Knight The Fetishism of Identity: Empire, Nation, and the Politics of Subjectivity in Algeria; J.McDougall PART II: INTELLECTUAL FORMATIONS: AUTHORITY AND OPPOSITION Redefining Resistance: Counterhegemony, the Repressive Hypothesis and the Case of Arabic Modernism; Y.Noorani Hegemony and Liberation: Mao Zedong and Zou Taofen in Early Twentieth-Century China; R.Mitter The Road through Africa: Imperial Nationalism and Diasporic Racial Consciousness in Postslavery Barbados; M.Newton PART III: COUNTERCULTURE: NORMATIVE TENSION AND AMBIGUITY Reading, Hegemony and Counterhegemony in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic; B.C. Fortna Celebratory Ramadan and Hyperpiety in a Mexican Standoff: Counterhegemony in the Crossfire; W.Armbrust PART IV: POPULAR STRUGGLE: MANOEUVRE AND CONTESTATION Counterhegemonic Effects: Weighing, Measuring, Petitions, and Bureaucracy in Nineteenth Century Egypt; J.Chalcraft Hegemony from Below: Print Workers, the State, and the Communist Party in Peru, 1920-1940; P.Drinot The Politics of Institutional Subversion: Organized Labour and Resistance in Zambia; A.LeBas How do Activists Act? Conceiving Counterhegemony in Durban; S.Chari

O autorze

WALTER ARMBRUST Albert Hourani Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford, UK JOHN CHALCRAFT Lecturer in the History and Politics of Empire / Imperialism, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK SHARAD CHARI Lecturer in Human Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK PAULO DRINOT Lecturer in History, University of Manchester, UK BENJAMIN FORTNA Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK ALAN KNIGHT Professor of the History of Latin America, Oxford University, UK ADRIENNE LEBAS Assistant Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Michigan State University, USA and Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK JAMES MCDOUGALL Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Princeton University, USA RANA MITTER University Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China, the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK MELANIE NEWTON Assistant Professor of History, the University of Toronto, Canada YASEEN NOORANI Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, USA