Global Capital and Social Difference

ISBN-13: 9780815360490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

V. Sujatha

Opis

This volume offers insights into ongoing, global socio-economic transformations by directing attention to the significance of labour, work, craft, community, social institutions, social movements and, emergent subjectivities in different parts of the world. .

Spis treści

Introduction: Global Capital and Social Difference: Beyond Dialectics and Embeddedness  Part 1: Social Change and Temporality: Interrogating Linear Time and Sequentiality in the Social Sciences  1. Capital, Time and Difference: Modernity and the European Episteme  2. Capital (In) difference in Africa: The Examples of Nigeria and South Africa  Part 2: Capital, Class and Community  3. Global Capitalism, Social Classes and Sociocultures  4. Capital, as if Community Matters: Silk Handloom Sari Production and the Defense of Hereditary Privilege in South India  5. Dynamics of Capital and Local Contexts: Understanding Patidar Resistance in Gujarat  Part 3: Institutions and Movements: The Glocal Dynamic  6. Neo-extractivism, Developmental Models and Capital Formation: Substitutive Natural Resource Governance in South America  7. Women’s Labour, Patriarchy, and Feminism in Twenty-first Century Kerala: Reflections on the Glocal Present  Part 4: State, Citizenship and the Global Connection  8. Unequal and Gendered: Notes on the Coloniality of Citizenship  9. Particular Universalities: Imagining the Nation at its Borders  Part 5: Media, Borders and Emergent Subjects  10. Are We All pirates? Film and TV Distribution on the Internet  11. Listening Global: Sonic Texts, Technologies and the New Listening Subjects