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Sonya Andermahr - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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decolonizing trauma studies trauma and Postcolonialism
2016Co-Authors: Sonya AndermahrAbstract:This volume is reprinted from the Special Issue of Humanities, 'Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Trauma and Postcolonialism'. The Special Issue explores the complex and contested relationship between trauma studies and postcolonial criticism, focusing on the ongoing project to create a decolonised trauma theory that attends to and accounts for the suffering of minority groups and non-Western cultures, broadly defined as cultures beyond Western Europe and North America. The issue builds on the insights of, inter alia, Stef Craps's book, Postcolonial Witnessing, and responds to his challenge to interrogate and move beyond a Eurocentric trauma paradigm. The essays examine literary and cultural texts from a wide range of postcolonial locales including Australia, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Haiti, the Philippines, and Eastern Europe, as well as exploring minority literary and cultural practices within Western European nations such as Britain. The volume concludes with a round table discussion between noted trauma theorists Stef Craps, Bryan Cheyette and Alan Gibbs.
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decolonizing trauma studies trauma and Postcolonialism introduction
Humanities research, 2015Co-Authors: Sonya AndermahrAbstract:This Special Issue aims to explore the complex and contested relationship between trauma studies and postcolonial criticism, focusing on the ongoing project to create a decolonized trauma theory that attends to and accounts for the suffering of minority groups and non-Western cultures, broadly defined as cultures beyond Western Europe and North America. [...]
Gurminder K Bhambra - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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colonialism Postcolonialism and the liberal welfare state
New Political Economy, 2018Co-Authors: Gurminder K Bhambra, John HolmwoodAbstract:This article addresses the colonial and racial origins of the welfare state with a particular emphasis on the liberal welfare state of the USA and UK. Both are understood in terms of the centrality of the commodified status of labour power expressing a logic of market relations. In contrast, we argue that with a proper understanding of the relations of capitalism and colonialism, the sale of labour power as a commodity already represents a movement away from the commodified form of labour represented by enslavement. European colonialism is integral to the development of welfare states and their forms of inclusion and exclusion which remain racialised through into the twenty-first century.
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sociology and Postcolonialism another missing revolution
Sociology, 2007Co-Authors: Gurminder K BhambraAbstract:Sociology is usually represented as having emerged alongside European modernity. The latter is frequently understood as sociology’s special object with sociology itself a distinctively modern form of explanation. The period of sociology’s disciplinary formation was also the heyday of European colonialism, yet the colonial relationship did not figure in the development of sociological understandings. While the recent emergence of post-colonialism appears to have initiated a reconsideration of understandings of modernity, with the development of theories of multiple modernities, I suggest, however, that this engagement is more an attempt at recuperating the transformative aspect of post-colonialism than engaging with its critiques. In setting out the challenge of post-colonialism to dominant sociological accounts, I will also address ‘missing feminist/queer revolutions’, suggesting that by engaging with post-colonialism there is the potential to transform sociological understandings by opening up a dialogue beyond the simple pluralism of identity claims.
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rethinking modernity Postcolonialism and the sociological imagination
2007Co-Authors: Gurminder K BhambraAbstract:Acknowledgements Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production PART 1: SOCIOLOGY AND ITS HISTORIOGRAPHY Modernity, Colonialism and the Postcolonial Critique European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux PART 2: DECONSTRUCTING EUROCENTRISM: CONNECTED HISTORIES The Renaissance and Myths of European Cultural Integrity The French Revolution and Myths of the Modern Nation-State The Industrial Revolution and Myths of Industrial Capitalism Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory After Postcolonialism: Toward A Connected Historiography References Index
Fazal Rizvi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Postcolonialism and globalization in education
Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, 2007Co-Authors: Fazal RizviAbstract:In this short article, the author explores the complex relationship between globalization and Postcolonialism. He argues that the contemporary processes of globalization are often described in ahistorical terms, whereas much of recent literature on Postcolonialism is reduced largely to apolitical analyses of literary texts, disconnected from issues of current and shifting configurations of power. The author argues for the need to understand global processes in education historically and suggests that intellectual postcolonial resources of Postcolonialism can be most helpful, but only if Postcolonialism is viewed as a political intervention.
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Postcolonialism and education negotiating a contested terrain
Pedagogy Culture and Society, 2006Co-Authors: Fazal Rizvi, Bob Lingard, Jennifer LaviaAbstract:This paper sets the context for those that follow in this special issue of Pedagogy, Culture & Society. In so doing, it provides a brief overview of Postcolonialism as theory, politics and practice. It considers Postcolonialism's ambivalent reception amongst differing constituencies, a sign both of desire and danger, as Stuart Hall has put it. Criticisms of Postcolonialism have come from both the left and the right and from indigenous scholars as well. In traversing the nature of Postcolonialism, the paper considers the work, albeit briefly, of a number of major 'foundational' thinkers, namely Fanon, Said, Bhabha and Spivak. The need for a more liberatory rather than conciliatory Postcolonialism is argued for, as is the need to integrate Postcolonialism with an understanding of contemporary globalization. Postcolonial insights can help overcome the ahistoricity of much globalization theorizing and also its reification. Against this backdrop, the paper then provides a summative account of all of the contributions in this special issue, all of which demonstrate how new cultural practices and policy imperatives in education are linked to colonial and postcolonial formations.
Philip Thomas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the river the road and the rural urban divide a postcolonial moral geography from southeast madagascar
American Ethnologist, 2002Co-Authors: Philip ThomasAbstract:In this article, I analyze how ideas of attachment to place and the experience of political and economic marginality combine to produce a particular moral geography for people of the Manambondro region of southeast Madagascar. Though the elements of this moral geography comprise an archive of sorts of the colonial encounter, they also speak of people's consciousness of their marginality within the postcolonial present. I argue that moral geography represents a structure of feeling, a form of social consciousness that captures something profound about people's senses of place and also, regarding their ambivalence toward modernity, their sense of who they are and who they might become, [colonialism, modernity, moral geography, place, Postcolonialism, structure of feeling, Madagascar]
Arif Dirlik - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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contemporary challenges to marxism postmodernism Postcolonialism globalization
Amerasia Journal, 2007Co-Authors: Arif DirlikAbstract:For the last three decades, Marxism as theory and practice has been challenged globally by postmodernity, Postcolonialism, and globalization. These three terms represent different developments intellectually, and in the material circumstances they imply. Globalization as a new paradigm for understanding the world is quite significant intellectually, as I will argue. But unlike the other two terms, which refer primarily to intellectual and cultural developments, including epistemological developments, globalization is even more important in referring to transformations in the global political economy. It serves as a material context for understanding the intellectual, cultural, and epistemological shifts proposed by postmodernism and Postcolonialism.
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whither history encounters with historicism postmodernism Postcolonialism
Futures, 2002Co-Authors: Arif DirlikAbstract:Abstract Postmodernist questioning of historians' claims to historical truth has created a sense of crisis in historical consciousness. The essay argues that the crisis is not a crisis in the writing of history, as most historians still continue with business as usual, but a crisis in the cultural meaning of history. While this crisis has been associated with the so-called “linguistic turn” which was to result in a paradigm shift in historiography in the 1970s, it has other important dimensions; including Third World questionings of EuroAmerican understandings of the past and, perhaps even more importantly, the intrusion into the representations of the past of the new media. The essay argues that new kinds of history that have appeared since the 1970s from women's history to the history of social movements to “microhistory” have themselves contributed to the complication of our understanding of the past, and what might be called postmodernity's histories. It suggests that historians have always assumed the tentativeness and contingency of claims to historical truth, and argues against a premature panic concerning the status of history. Constructivism is here to stay, but that does not necessarily point to the disappearance of history, only to more complicated ways of grasping the past.
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Rethinking Colonialism: Globalization, Postcolonialism, And The Nation
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2002Co-Authors: Arif DirlikAbstract:This article seeks to view colonialism in a historical perspective, including the perspective of the future. It argues that, in spite of the devastation it has wrought globally, colonialism has transformed the identities of the colonized, so that even claims to precolonial national identities are products of colonialism. Recent postcolonial insistence on the hybridization of identities has revealed the irrelevance of the search for national identity that was prominent in the postcolonial thinking of the 1960s. Nationalism itself, the essay suggests, is a version of colonialism in the suppression and appropriation of local identities for a national identity. All identity, historically speaking, is a product of one or another form of colonialism, and hybridization of identities is an ongoing historical process. What is particular about modern colonialism, the article concludes, is its relationship to capitalism, which a preoccupation with colonialism and national identity has driven to the margins of politi...
