The politics of culture in the shadow of capital / edited by Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lowe, Lisa.

Lloyd, David, 1955 December 20-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Developing countries.

Capitalism.

Economic development.

Women--Developing countries--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (606 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Coming from a broad cross-section of academic disciplines and theoretical positions, this collection of essays questions and reworks Marxist critiques of capitalism that center on the West and which posit a uniform model of development. More specifically

Contents:

The time of history and the times of gods / Dipesh Chakrabarty

The gender and labor politics of postmodernity / Aihwa Ong

Outlines of a nonlinear emplotment of Philippine history / Reynaldo C. Ileto

Developmentalism's irresistible seduction : rural subjectivity under Sandinista agricultural policy / Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo

Nationalisms against the state / David Lloyd

Cultural politics and biological diversity : state, capital, and social movements in the Pacific Coast of Colombia / Arturo Escobar

First stop, Port-au-Prince : mapping postcolonial Africa through Toussaint L'Ouverture and his Black Jacobins / Grant Farred

The veil in their minds and on our heads : veiling practices and Muslim women / Homa Hoodfar

Outlaw language : creating alternative public spheres in Basque free radio / Jacqueline Urla

Angela Davis : reflections on race, class, and gender in the USA / Lisa Lowe

"Frantic to join ... the Japanese Army" : the Asia Pacific War in the lives of African American soldiers and civilians / George Lipsitz

Work, immigration, gender : new subjects of cultural politics / Lisa Lowe

Women who walk on water : working across "race" in women against fundamentalism / Clara Connolly and Pragna Patel

Of Zapatismo : reflections on the folkloric and the impossible in a subaltern insurrection / Jose Rabasa

Staging resistance : the Indian People's Theatre Association / Nandi Bhatia

The discourse of decolonialization and popular memory : South Korea / Chungmoo Choi

In the shadows of Stonewall : examining gay transnational politics and the diasporic dilemma / Martin F. Manalansan IV

Woman at the close of the Maoist Era in the polemics of Li Xiaonjiang and her associates / Tani E. Barlow.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-579) and index.

ISBN:

9786612904462

9781282904460

1282904469

9780822382317

0822382318

OCLC:

850215498