The Postcolonial and the Global

by Revathi Krishnaswamy, John C. Hawley

Overview

This interdisciplinary work brings the humanities and social sciences into dialogue by examining issues such as globalized capital, discourses of antiterrorism, and identity politics. Essayists from the fields of postcolonial studies and globalization theory address the ethical and pragmatic ramifications of opposing interpretations of these issues and, for the first time, seek common ground.

Contributors: Pal Ahluwalia, U of California, San Diego; Arjun Appadurai, New School U; Geoffrey Bowker, Santa Clara U; Timothy Brennan, U of Minnesota; Ruth Buchanan, U of British Columbia; Verity Burgmann, U of Melbourne; Pheng Cheah, U of California, Berkeley; Inderpal Grewal, U of California, Irvine; Ramon Grosfoguel, U of California, Berkeley; Barbara Harlow, U of Texas, Austin; Anouar Majid, U of New England; John McMurtry, U of Guelph; Walter D. Mignolo, Duke U; Sundhya Pahuja, U of Melbourne; R. Radhakrishnan, U of California, Irvine; Ileana Rodriguez, Ohio State U; E. San Juan, Philippine Forum, New York; Saskia Sassen, U of Chicago; Ella Shohat, New York U; Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics; Robert Stam, New York U; Madina Tlostanova, Russian Peoples’ Friendship U; Harish Trivedi, U of Delhi.

Revathi Krishnaswamy is associate professor of English at San Jose State University.

John C. Hawley is professor and chair of English at Santa Clara University.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816646098
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	11/29/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: At the Crossroads of Postcolonial and Globalization Studies     1
Connections, Conflicts, Complicities   Revathi Krishnaswamy     2
Agencies for Resistance, Prospects for Evolution   John C. Hawley     22
Disciplinarity and Its Discontents     33
Postcolonial Studies and Globalization Theory   Timothy Brennan     37
Universal Areas: Asian Studies in a World in Motion   Pheng Cheah     54
Revisionism and the Subject of History   R. Radhakrishnan     69
The Many Scales of the Global: Implications for Theory and for Politics   Saskia Sassen     82
World-System Analysis and Postcolonial Studies: A Call for a Dialogue from the "Coloniality of Power" Approach   Ramon Grosfoguel     94
Planetarity and the Postcolonial     105
The Logic of Coloniality and the Limits of Postcoloniality   Walter D. Mignolo   Madina Tlostanova     109
Culture Debates in Translation   Ella Shohat   Robert Stam     124
The Postcolonial Bubble   Anouar Majid     134
Globalized Terror and the Postcolonial Sublime: Questions for Subaltern Militants   E. San Juan Jr.     157
Empire andthe "New" Politics of Resistance   Pal Ahluwalia     166
Amitav Ghosh: Cosmopolitanisms, Literature, Transnationalisms   Inderpal Grewal     178
Sanctions against South Africa: Historical Example or Historic Exception?   Barbara Harlow     191
From Bollywood to Hollywood: The Globalization of Hindi Cinema   Harish Trivedi     200
Imperiality and the Global     211
Discourses of Globalization: A Transnational Capitalist Class Analysis   Leslie Sklair     215
The Postmodern Voice of Empire: The Metalogic of Unaccountability   John McMurtry     228
Striking Back against Empire: Working-Class Responses to Globalization   Verity Burgmann     238
Localizing Global Technoscience   Geoffrey C. Bowker     252
Law, Nation, and (Imagined) International Communities   Ruth Buchanan   Sundhya Pahuja     261
Globalization as Neo-, Postcolonialism: Politics of Resentment and Governance of the World's Res Publica   Ileana Rodriguez     275
Postscript: An Interview with Arjun Appadurai   John C. Hawley     289
Publication History     295
Contributors     297
Index     301