The material of world history / edited by Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, Tina Mai, editor.

Churchill, David S., editor.

Series:

Routledge approaches to history ; 9.

Routledge approaches to history ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history--Philosophy.

World history.

History--Philosophy.

History.

History--Methodology.

Historical materialism.

Physical Description:

x, 215 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

"This volume considers the confluence of world history and historical materialism, with the following guiding question in mind: given developments in the field of historical materialism concerned with the intersection of race, gender, labour, and class, why is it that within the field of World History, historical materialism has been marginalized, precisely as World History orients toward transnational socio-cultural phenomenon, micro-studies, or global histories of networks? Answering this question requires thinking, in an inter-related manner, about both the development of World History as a discipline, and the place of economic determinism in historical materialism. This book takes the position that historical materialism (as applied to the field of World History) needs to be more open to the methodological diversity of the materialist tradition and to refuse narrowly deterministic frameworks that have led to marginalization of materialist cultural analysis in studies of global capitalism. At the same time, World History needs to be more self-critical of the methodological diversity it has welcomed through a largely inclusionary framework that allows the material to be considered separately from cultural, social, and intellectual dimensions of global processes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Material Matters : Recognizing the Confluence of World History and Historical Materialism / Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill, and Susie Fisher Stoesz

Chapter 2: What is World History? A Critique of Pure Ideology / Rebecca Karl

Section One: The "Blind Spots" of Historical Materialism

Chapter 3: Language, State, and Global Capitalism : "Global English" and Historical Materialism / Peter Ives

Chapter 4: Open Secrets : Class, Affect, and Sexuality / Rosemary Hennessy

Chapter 5: "As Its Foundations Totter" : International Imperialism, Gendered Racial Capitalism, and the U.S. Literary Left in the Early Cold War / John Munro

Section Two: World History and Interconnectivity : Re-engaging Materialism and its Abstractions

A. Spatial Categories and Norms of Interconnectedness

Chapter 6: World History and International Relations : Disrupting the Discipline of the State / Todd Scarth

Chapter 7: Local Struggles, Transnational Connections : Latin American Intellectuals and the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Jorge Nállim

B. Denaturalizing Economic Thought

Chapter 8: Perpetual Peace, Technology, and Effeminacy : Adam Smith and Eighteenth-Century Debates / Erik Thomson

Chapter 9: Understanding Global Interconnectedness : Catastrophic Generic Change / Mary Poovey

Section Three: Dialectical Inquiry, Historical Materialism, and the Localities of World History

Chapter 10: Where the Dead Queued for Fuel : Zimbabweans Remember the Fuel Crisis and its Impact on the Funeral Industry, 1999-2008 / Joyce M. Chadya

Chapter 11: "We Are All Migrant Laborers" : Democracy and Universal Politics / Hyun Ok Park.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138795600

1138795607

OCLC:

905419169