Counterhegemony in the colony and postcolony / edited by John Chalcraft and Yaseen Noorani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chalcraft, John T., 1970-

Noorani, Yaseen, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics.

Revolutions.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Capitalism seems to have conquered the world. Historians and social scientists increasingly elaborate on the ever-subtler forms of hegemony that control our lives. Resistance appears naive, elusive or futile. Within this vexed context, this interdisciplinary volume represents an unusual attempt to think through the meaning of resistance and give new theoritical content to the oft-cited but underspecified concept of counterhegemony. Rather than proceeding in a Eurocentric manner from some principle of resistance at work in the world of 'advanced capitalism' and then generalizing to the so-called developing world, this work is grounded in theoritically informed but fined-grained studies of important but little-known cases of resistance in the global South.

With contributions from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Latin America, and reaching back to the eighteenth century, Counterhegemony in the colony and Postcolony works through issues of colonialism, nationalism, statism, postcolonialism and neoliberalism Attention is paid to politics and the state, intellectual formations, counterculture, and popular struggle. In doing so, this volume goes beyond unexamined and naive notions of resistance and gives a firmer conceptual basis for thinking counterhegemony.

Contents:

Part I The State and Politics: Nationalism and Revolution 21

Chapter 1 Hegemony, Counterhegemony and the Mexican Revolution / Alan Knight 23

Chapter 2 The Fetishism of Identity: Empire, Nation and the Politics of Subjectivity in Algeria / James McDougall 49

Part II Intellectual Formations: Authority and Opposition 73

Chapter 3 Redefining Resistance: Counterhegemony, the Repressive Hypothesis and the Case of Arabic Modernism / Yaseen Noorani 75

Chapter 4 Hegemony and Liberation: Mao Zedong and Zou Taofen in Early Twentieth-century China / Rana Mitter 100

Chapter 5 The Road through Africa: Imperial Nationalism and Diasporic Racial Consciousness in Post-slavery Barbados / Melanie Newton 115

Part III Counterculture: Normative Tension and Ambiguity 139

Chapter 6 Reading, Hegemony and Counterhegemony in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic / Benjamin C. Fortna 141

Chapter 7 Celebratory Ramadan and Hyperpiety in a Mexican Standoff: Counterhegemony in the Crossfire / Walter Armbrust 155

Part IV Popular Struggle: Manoeuvre and Contestation 177

Chapter 8 Counterhegemonic Effects: Weighing, Measuring, Petitions and Bureaucracy in Nineteenth-century Egypt / John Chalcraft 179

Chapter 9 Hegemony from Below: Print Workers, the State and the Communist Party in Peru, 1920-40 / Paulo Drinot 204

Chapter 10 The Politics of Institutional Subversion; Organized Labour and Resistance in Zambia / Adriennie LeBas 228

Chapter 11 How Do Activists Act? Conceiving Counterhegemony in Durban / Sharad Chari 252.

Notes:

Papers presented at the workshop held on 9-10 July 2004 at the University of Edinburgh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230019188

9780230019188

OCLC:

123377405

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