Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South: Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Perspectives, and the Anthropocene

ISBN-13: 9780367189990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 254 str.

Saurabh Dube; Sanjay Seth; Ajay Skaria

Opis

This book comprises substantive yet short, academic yet accessible essays that are crafted in conversation with the critical questions raised by Chakrabarty’s writings. Rather than exegeses and commentaries, these original, commissioned, pieces imaginatively engage Chakrabarty’s insights and arguments.

Spis treści

1. Engaging Dipesh Chakrabarty: An Introduction   Part 1: Affect and Intellect  2. Between Critique and Creativity  3. Rethinking Indian Constitutional History  4. The Significance of Provincializing Europe  5. Labor History and "Culture" Critique  Part 2: Critical Conversations  6. Writing the Void  7. Histories, Dwelling, Habitations  8. A Correspondence on Provincializing Europe  Part 3: Global Pasts and Postcolonial Differences  9. Rights and Coercion  10. When Victims Become Rulers  11. The Cold War as a Rule of Experts  12. Historical Wounds and the Public Life of History  Part 4: Memory, Historiography and Trauma  13. Memory, Historiography and Trauma  14. Thinking Freedom with Gandhi  15. Western Thought as "Indispensable and Inadequate"  16. Translating the Other  Part 5: The Anthropocene and Other Affiliations  17. History, Anthropogenic Soil and Unbecoming Human  18. Art in the Time of Tricksters and Monsters  19. Indigenous Histories and Indigenous Futures  20. Figures of Immanence