Ranabir Samaddar

Alternative Futures and the Present (eBook, ePUB)

Postcolonial Possibilities

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an engagement with selected texts, events and thinkers central to the present, this book offers an imagination of different possible futures from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that exist for conducting struggles, and living through contentions and social restructuring.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000871661
• Artikelnr.: 67561780

Autorenporträt

Ranabir Samaddar is currently the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India. He belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. His writings on migration, forms of labour, urbanisation, and political struggles have signalled a new turn in postcolonial thinking. Among his influential works are: The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal (1999) and Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (2018). His most recent publications are The Postcolonial Age of Migration (2020), and written in the background of the COVID pandemic, A Pandemic and the Politics of Life (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Time, and the Politics and Poetics of Alternative Section
One: Social Transformation and the Space and Time of Nation 1 Karl Marx:
Colonialism, Nation Form, and Social Transformation 2 Home, World, and an
Uncertain Nation 3 In the Time of Nations Section Two: The Problematic of
Population and Power in Transformative Politics 4 The Problem of
Population: Recalling Marx's Critique of Malthus 5 Populations and Populism
as a Problematic in Transformative Politics Section Three: Two
Universalisms: Imperial Imaginary and Imaginary of the Oppressed 6 Hegel's
India and Imperial Imaginary of the Universal 7 Annihilation of Caste and
Universalism of the Oppressed Section Four: Contentions and Antagonisms as
Template of Alternative Thinking 8 Charles Tilly's Theorising of Contention
9 Genocide: A Most Contentious Word and Concept of Modern time Section
Five: Beyond the Political, Imaginaries of Other Kinds 10 The Impossibility
of Politics: Brecht, Manto and Two Acts of Literature 11 Memories of the
Forgotten Section Six: Event as a Congealed Site of New Possibilities 12
Settling Account with the Point of Origin: Marx, Engels, and the Revolution
of 1848 13 October Revolution as an Alternative in the Colonial and
Postcolonial Time 14 Occupy College Street, 1967-69 15 Crisis, Biopolitics
from Below, and a New Model of Public Power 16 Layers of Solidarity 17
Epilogue