The postcolonial and the global / edited by Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C. Hawley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hawley, John C. (John Charles), 1947-

Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Internationalism.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Connects post-colonial and global discourses in the humanities and social sciences.

Contents:

pt. I. Disciplinarity and its discontents. Postcolonial studies and globalization theory / Timothy Brennan

Universal areas : Asian studies in a world in motion / Pheng Cheah

Revisionism and the subject of history / R. Radhakrishnan

The many scales of the global : implications for theory and for politics / Saskia Sassen

World-system analysis and postcolonial studies : a call for a dialogue from the "coloniality of power" approach / Ramón Grosfoguel

pt. II. Planetarity and the postcolonial. The logic of coloniality and the limits of postcoloniality / Walter D. Mignolo and Madina Tlostanova

Culture debates in translation / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam

The postcolonial bubble / Anouar Majid

Globalized terror and the postcolonial sublime : questions for subaltern militants / E. San Juan Jr.

Empire and the "new" politics of resistance / Pal Ahluwalia

Amitav ghosh : cosmopolitanisms, literature, transnationalisms / Inderpal Grewal

Sanctions against South Africa : historical example or historic exception? / Barbara Harlow

From Bollywood to Hollywood : the globalization of Hindi cinema / Harish Trivedi

pt. III. Imperiality and the global. Discourses of globalization : a transnational capitalist class analysis / Leslie Sklair

The postmodern voice of empire : the metalogic of unaccountability / John Mcmurtry

Striking back against empire : working-class responses to globalization / Verity Burgmann

Localizing global technoscience / Geoffrey C. Bowker

Law, nation, and (imagined) international communities / Ruth Buchanan and Sundhya Pahuja

Globalization as neo-, postcolonialism : politics of resentment and governance of the world's res publica / Ileana Rodriguez

Postscript : an interview with Arjun Appadurai / John C. Hawley.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5378-X

OCLC:

476125667