'The Materiality of Politics' uses a series of historical illustrations to reveal the physicality and underlying 'materiality' of political processes. The political subject of the study is the collective political actor poised against governmental rules for stabilizing order. Samaddar's tour de force propels readers through an account of blood, violence, bodies, controls, laws and conflicts. Politics is examined not as an abstraction, but as a 'real' field of dynamic factors rooted in everyday life.
Volume 1, subtitled 'The Technologies of Rule' discusses the techniques of modern...
'The Materiality of Politics' uses a series of historical illustrations to reveal the physicality and underlying 'materiality' of political process...
'The Materiality of Politics' uses a series of historical illustrations to reveal the physicality and underlying 'materiality' of political processes. The political subject of the study is the collective political actor poised against governmental rules for stabilizing order. Samaddar's tour de force propels readers through an account of blood, violence, bodies, controls, laws and conflicts. Politics is examined not as an abstraction, but as a 'real' field of dynamic factors rooted in everyday life.
Volume 2, subtitled 'Subject Positions in Politics' focuses on the political subject...
'The Materiality of Politics' uses a series of historical illustrations to reveal the physicality and underlying 'materiality' of political process...
International in scope and featuring a diverse group of contributors, this title investigates the complexities of transitional justice that emerge from its 'social embeddedness'.
International in scope and featuring a diverse group of contributors, this title investigates the complexities of transitional justice that emerge fro...
This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other. It draws our attention to the peculiar but structurally necessary coexistence of both primitive and virtual modes of accumulation in the postcolony. From these two major inquiries it develops a new understanding of postcolonial capitalism. The case studies in this volume discuss the production of urban spaces of capital extraction, institutionalization of...
This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour proc...
Cultures of governance and peace assembles a range of critical insights on the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the EU. These two epistemic, cultural and institutional settings, though strikingly different in many ways, have recently been brought closer together by the ideas and practices of what are known as liberal peace and the neoliberal state, as well as associated development projects. While the differences between India and the EU are obvious in terms of geography, culture and the nature and shape of institutions and historical forces, the...
Cultures of governance and peace assembles a range of critical insights on the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India...
This important and topical volume is composed around the debt and migration crisis in Europe in 2015 (known as the Greece crisis), and written almost concurrently as the two crises developed in quick succession.
This important and topical volume is composed around the debt and migration crisis in Europe in 2015 (known as the Greece crisis), and written almost ...
This book offers an original analysis and theorization of the biopolitics of development in the postcolonial present, and draws significantly from the later works of Michel Foucault on biopolitics. Foucault's works have had a massive influence on postcolonial literatures, particularly in political science and international relations, and several authors of this book have themselves made significant contributions to that influence.
While Foucault's thought has been inspirational for understanding colonial biopolitics as well as governmental rationalities concerned with development,...
This book offers an original analysis and theorization of the biopolitics of development in the postcolonial present, and draws significantly from ...
This book seeks to explicitly engage Marxist and post-colonial theory to place Marxism in the context of the post-colonial age. This work will read Marx in the contemporary post-colonial condition and elaborate the current dynamics of post-colonial capitalism.
This book seeks to explicitly engage Marxist and post-colonial theory to place Marxism in the context of the post-colonial age. This work will read Ma...
