From Orientalism to Postcolonialism

Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference
Herausgeber: Mazumdar, Sucheta; Labica, Thierry; Kaiwar, Vasant

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Produktbeschreibung

An intervention in one of the most fundamental debates confronting the social science and humanities, namely how to understand global and local historical processes as interconnected developments affecting human actors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780415671699
• ISBN-10: 0415671698
• Artikelnr.: 33258455

Autorenporträt

Sucheta Mazumdar, Vasant Kaiwar, Thierry Labica

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Geographies of Otherness 1. Coordinates of Orientalism: Reflections
on the Universal and the Particular Vasant Kaiwar, Sucheta Mazumdar 2.
Locating China, Positioning America: Politics of the Civilizational Model
of World History Sucheta Mazumdar Part 2: Spectres of Revolution and the
Orientalist Turn 3. The Domination Unthinkable: French Sociology of India
in the Mirror of Max Weber Roland Lardinois 4. The Question of Orientalism
in Pan-Islamic Thought: The Origins, Content and Legacy of Transnational
Muslim Identities Cemil Aydin 5. Iranian Modernity in Global Perspective:
Nationalist, Marxist, and Authenticity Discourses Afshin Matin-Asgari 6.
Marxism(s), Revolution, and the Third World: Thoughts on the Experiences of
Successive Generations in Europe and East Asia Pierre Rousset Part 3: The
Dialectic of Capital and Community-Authenticity 7. The Cultural Fix?
Language, Work, and the Territories of Accumulation Thierry Madjid Labica
8. Hybrid and Alternative Modernities: a Critical Perspective on
Postcolonial Studies and the Project of Provincializing Europe Vasant
Kaiwar